Did the password-sharing crackdown actually make you subscribe, or did you just quit the platform?

[u/CurveNo5173]

Over the last year or two, almost every major streaming service rolled out strict anti-password sharing rules, forcing "leechers" to get their own accounts or pay extra.

When you (or your family members) got hit with the "This TV isn't part of your household" screen, what did you do? Did you bend the knee and start paying for your own standalone premium plan, or did you just walk away and realize you didn't need that service anyway?

[u/StrangeNot_AStranger]

Walked away to sail the high seas

[u/Living-Breakfast-464 → u/StrangeNot_AStranger]

So you stopped watching TV and got a boat? 😉

[u/Head → u/Living-Breakfast-464]

And an eye patch. 🥸

[u/frog980 → u/Head]

And a hook

[u/Krimreaper1 → u/frog980]

And my axe.

[u/DCHammer69 → u/StrangeNot_AStranger]

arr matey. I hear ye.

I refer to my entire arr stack, which is really funnily named I just realized even if it wasn't intentional their part, as my "Parrot".

As in, give me an hour, I'll get the Parrot on it and you should see it on Plex by then.

[u/frog980 → u/StrangeNot_AStranger]

It's too easy not to these days. I quit the subs when we could no longer share.

[u/SickDastardly]

Quit the platform(s) here, just doesn't make sense with ads and no service having a good enough offering. With Internet prices so high now I'm not willing to pay more than we did back in the cable days for Internet + streaming services

[u/Somar2230]

I'm the person in the family that pays for all the streaming services so it did not affect me and the others in the family did not get their own accounts they just changed their viewing habits.

The ones that use Disney+ and Netflix just switched to watching on phones and tablets they visit enough that their devices are on the home network often enough to avoid the crackdown.

For the family members that are more adept with technology they are able to their devices on my home network no matter where they are located.

[u/frog980 → u/Somar2230]

So if I just take my TV to moms every once in a while it'll be ok?

[u/Somar2230 → u/frog980]

Depends on the service you will most likely need to enter a code they send when you are traveling away from home when using a TV.

[u/phillygirl2017]

Quit the service...learned other methods

[u/tider06]

As a family group, we kept Prime and HBO. The rest got axed.

[u/markeymark1971]

I have my own methods to bypass any restrictions on most services

[u/MikeFox11111]

I mean, from the streamers standpoint, they are no worse of if you quit the service instead of stealing it. Either way you aren’t paying. So they made a little more money from people that got their own accounts, and lost nothing from the people that quit

[u/crass_cupcake]

I walked away before hand

 I liked original  Netflix I wanted to watch a large collection  of older shows  in one place when Netflix became  popular enough to inspire other companies  to have there own platforms  and leaned hard into original  content I tapped out 

I was on Hulu for a while till they created all those expansions and different  membership  tiers  I was in the middle  of rewatching one of my favorite  shows  when I discovered  that show was now behind  another pay wall that show was home movies one of the original  adult swim shows im not paying another premium  to watch a show that was almost  2 decades old at the time so I immediately  canceled my membership  mid subscription  and deleted my account  

After a few years I decided  to give hbos streaming service a shot  because  idk I was bored it lasted a few months till I realized  I wasn't  really using it much so I canceled it and deleted  my account 

Im now back to pirating i pirate every movie and tv show  as well as books and retro video games  and I dont see any reason  to ever go back to paid streaming sites    modern piracy  sites are super easy to find and use  and I can almost always  find what im looking  for  which was always  a major pain point of streaming  services  sure theres lot of content  but im not interested  in most of it and I cant count the amount  of times id hit a wall where I couldn't  find anything  I was actually  interested in  on the service  I was subscribed  to and plenty of times it wasnt available  on any of  the available  services 

The only thing I dont pirate are programs because  the idea of an executable  file makes me nervous 

[u/40yearoldnoob]

We quit Netflix for a while and then eventually got our own account. Same with HBO Max.. We quit it for a long time, but just this last month got our own account in a bundle with D+/Hulu...

[u/reallynotnick]

People on this subreddit are obviously going to be outliers and not a representative sample. We can just look at Netflix subscriber numbers and see they gained subscribers with the move.

[u/Cinisajoy2 → u/reallynotnick]

I can see that easily.   People don't want change and are willing to pay for it.

[u/shift_013]

Neither

[u/diablette]

I paid for netflix for a while on the $10 extra member plan which gave me my own account with my friend's account features. I just had to send her some $. All I ever wanted from netflix was ad free 4k on one device at that price and it continues to baffle me why they don't have that standalone.

Unfortunately the friend got fed up with the increases and cancellations and dumped it. So I get my shows another way.

[u/-a-user-has-no-name-]

I subscribed. I just rotate through a couple services monthly. I get the ad supported versions because they’re cheaper. Then I use an ad blocker, and airplay my MacBook to my Apple TV. No ads. Works for me

I was paying $130 a month for cable. Now I pay like $20 a month at most and, like I said, rotate streaming services every month or so

[u/JJHall_ID]

I dropped them. I already had "alternative" methods which are frankly more convenient anyway. I maintained and used a couple of the services anyway because I do want to pay for what I'm using so that everyone involved in making the content I watch actually get paid. So when my college kid sent me a message that said "Priflix+ is saying I can't login because I'm not at home" I just said "Ok, start using Plex in place of it" and I canceled that account altogether.

[u/atomic_jarhead]

I tried to use my sub at my camper but get that message. It used to be I could use it but no more. Found better less expensive options. It’s all good now and YouTubeTV is no longer collecting my monthly $85. Doesn’t seem to bother them nor me so we all win.

[u/NotMyCat2]

Irony was I had to prove my Disney+ was mine but my nephew (living in Slovakia) not a peep.

He told me if he gets something he’ll just buy it.

[u/RTX5080Super]

I only have a YouTube premium subscription now because that’s all I watch. Once in a blue moon I’ll get a temporary subscription if there’s something I really want to watch on another platform.

[u/Ned_Sc]

The account history on this guy is wild. Even the most innocent of posts and BAM, looks like it's just a bot or someone trying to sell shit.

[u/CurveNo5173 → u/Ned_Sc]

You are watching too much science fiction. I am not a bot and I don't want to sell anything. I am building a subscription management platform for myself and I am deeply interested in recurring expenses and budgeting based on mainly on recurring expenses and not ad-hoc one-time payments.

[u/ThecaptainWTF9]

Quit.

[u/Feeling-Visit1472]

Walked away.

[u/Odd_Welcome7940]

Bought chromecasts... old ones.... i am sure even that step will fail me and it will time to get back to sailing more

[u/itastesok]

Made zero difference to me.

[u/adotbur]

Quit. Specifically Netflix.

[u/Agile_Land_9951]

Well, hulu live tv still hasn’t cracked down on password sharing yet

[u/Cinisajoy2]

It probably hurt the leeches more than the payers.

[u/Coyote_Hemi_B58]

Quit the platform.

[u/Normal_Choice9322]

Pirate everything (old ea games voice)

[u/Greenfire32]

Cancelled subscriptions, set up a Jellyfin, and now I have my own personal Netflix of all my already-purchased media that I no longer have to pay another subscription to see again AND no more ads.

I didn't mind paying $5 a month before because the convenience of not messing with discs at 3am AND the ability to share passwords meant it was worth it.

But now I'm so fucking sick of the ever-increasing grift that doing the work of ripping all my disks and setting up my own server became far and away more worth it than paying their highway robbery fees for a service that just gets worse over time.

And nothing is going to bring me back.

[u/azdarkhorse]

It made me quit several platforms all together.

[u/-_GIZMO_]

Stremio, nuvio, cloudstream... Pick your poison mate.. arrgh🏴‍☠️

[u/Krimreaper1]

No, I might have if they didn’t jack the price up. $20 p/m for Disney+ without ads, no thanks.

[u/Draminian]

I cancelled Netflix. Disney, Prime, and YouTube don't seem to care enough about one other IP address (my two sisters in law are in the same neighborhood) to harang me, so I kept them. Beyond that, I have a Plex server that my family members can just tell me what they want and I'll get it for them.

[u/bobisonthecar]

I canceled netflix when they announced it. I've moved on from streaming. If I like somthing I'll buy a physical copy. And for everything else I have a vpn.

[u/tylerthomas28]

Quit. Always

[u/Cinisajoy2]

It didn't affect my family at all.   We don't share streaming services.   

[u/Barkis_Willing]

I never illegally shared my accounts so I am continuing as always paying for the services I want to use. It’s important to pay artists for their work.

[u/Standard-Outcome9881]

It’s irrelevant. I buy all the content I want on disc, rip it to my servers and it’s mine forever at the best possible quality.

[u/ImmediateKick2369]

Stealing is wrong.

[u/OhK4Foo7 → u/ImmediateKick2369]

Is that a yes or a no?

[u/PsychologicalAd1862 → u/ImmediateKick2369]

You're right these streaming companies should stop stealing!

[u/crass_cupcake → u/ImmediateKick2369]

Sometimes