“you don’t know what you’re doing, and you’re trying to learn, so stay in your lane and forget about learning”. Classic fucking arrogance in the IT community. When you didn’t know how to type on a keyboard you should have stopped as well, I mean what’s the point right? Stick with what you’re good at!
By that logic we’d all be dumb AF and have failed as a species. Get off your high horse.
Its more than just saving the money, it’s also pushing me to learn new skills.
I think one way is to activate a device and ignore the WAN IP/home network/wifi network/etc…(also, what if none of your netflix connected devices connect over wifi?) However, I can see one person having netflix on their phone, their tablet, their tv, their laptop, possibly another tv and maybe they view on the desktop. Meaning, 1 person has many devices activated, but highly unlikely that they’ll be watching on all devices at the same time and under the screen limit of their account.
I pay for the highest plan, UHD, on 4 screens or whatever the limit is. I wouldn’t be against netflix saying ‘pick 4 devices to activate’ and I’m stuck with those 4 until I remove one and add another. Even if I’m sharing with 3 other people, which I wouldn’t do, that means I can only watch 4 max streams at once and the chances of all 4 of us watching at the same time is low.
I have no intention on sharing my login with anyone other than the 1 family member that is already using it. The example I gave with 4 people above was just that, an example. They don’t have their own viewing profile, they literally wanted to watch 1 show and I don’t think it made sense for them to sign up just to watch 1 show.
Serious question: how would they distinguish a case like mine, or a family with kids in college, from a person who just shares the login info with 5 of their friends?
I think the other question is, IS there a difference between those two cases, from Netflix’s perspective?
They only need to be able to distinguish between them if they consider one to be allowed and the other not. If both cases are considered unpermitted account sharing it makes the job easy.
Thats great! Plenty of bandwidth to do it. This does sound like a fun experiment.
Instead you chose to be negative.
I chose to give you a honest reply… The rest is up to you.
Four months later, did You succeed?
I really think the model they have now where you pay based on the number of concurrent streams you can have is likely the best but of course they’re trying to maximize profits. I think it would make more sense to say you get X number of streams for $Y and you can pay $Z more a month for each additional stream up to an account limit.
You chose to be negative. You can be honest without using words like dumb. Here’s an example:
“I’m not sure that config would be something a home use is willing to undertake.”
When you use words like dumb, that’s being negative.
This has sort of gone on the back burner, but now that we have officially gotten the notice I’ll get back to it. Since the last reply to this post, I have successfully set up a site to site wire guard VPN which allows me to do other things as well, but will allow me to more easily direct all of the traffic to and from the remote Apple TV’s to my house. And AT&T is laying fiber in my neighborhood so hopefully soon I’ll be able to get that sweet sweet symmetrical connection instead of this lopsided gig down 35Mbps up. Once I have it fully implemented I’ll report back.
I really think the model they have now where you pay based on the number of concurrent streams you can have is likely the best
That was never actually the model.
They’ve always said that an account is limited to a household. They just didn’t make any effort to enforce that, and even somewhat acknowledged/encouraged password sharing.
I think it would make more sense to say you get X number of streams for $Y and you can pay $Z more a month for each additional stream up to an account limit.
I think everyone has an opinion on what they want Netflix’s model to be. A lot of people don’t want to have to pay for 4 concurrent streams just to get 4K, for example. And everyone wants their particular use case to be both permitted and inexpensive.
You can be honest without using words like dumb
Gotta love reddit! 
. No matter how you word it, it’s still dumb.
Good luck.
Hey I just had a similar thought while not technically similar.
I am from Germany, but am living in Vietnam right now.
Because of the recent changes, i can’t access Netflix anymore, since it is bound to Germany. However, when I use vpn on m smartphone to connect to my pi at home, Netflix works as expected.
I was wondering, whether I could just create a VPN server on a cloud provider which resides in VN and then tunnel all Netflix data to that vpn when I am back in Germany again. Or does Netflix block all incoming traffic from public cloud providers as well? Do you have any previous experience with that?
That may have not been the model, but they themselves even encouraged password sharing when they posted it on twitter.
“Love is sharing a password.”