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In a shocking turn of events, Netflix subs rise after password-sharing crackdown

2 pointsby thehoffalmost 2 years ago

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treeskneesalmost 2 years ago
It&#x27;s not shocking to me. The additional household pricing, along with the limits on how many additional households you can add, makes it more expensive to share an account overall.<p>Example: I currently pay for the Premium tier at $19.99&#x2F;month where I share it with 4 other people - each of us get a profile. Price comes out to $3.99&#x2F;person&#x2F;month.<p>But, Premium tier can only add 2 additional households. 3 of us can stay on the account and 2 people are out.<p>Now with 3 total people on the original account, the price comes out to $19.99 + $7.99+ $7.99 &#x2F; 3 = $11.99&#x2F;person&#x2F;month.<p>Now for the 2 who were kicked off - To share you have to be at least at the Standard tier for $15.49 + $7.99 &#x2F; 2 = $11.74&#x2F;person&#x2F;month.<p>That ends up more expensive per-person than getting your own ad-tier ($6.99&#x2F;month) or Basic tier account ($9.99&#x2F;month).<p>Unless you care about 4K content, Netflix has incentivized each person signing up for a total net gain of 4 accounts.<p>And all that said, the new subscription count isn&#x27;t reflecting how many people are quitting. You could have 100 accounts cancelling for every 5 signing up and it wouldn&#x27;t be reflected in the data they&#x27;re giving us.