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Netflix got rid of the $9.99 basic plan in Canada (www.narcity.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's like they are trying to irritate people into canceling their accounts.

Imo, this one might actually be worse than the account sharing and cause people to quit. As soon as you have people messing around with their subscription version, it's all too easy to just say "nah, I actually don't want this anymore".

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They were talking about for continued use the other people on your account would have to connect to your local network once a month to keep that device active. Easy with family member bringing over a laptop, difficult with a TV; unless you setup a vpn tunnel to your home router.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh that’s odd. We haven’t done that at all and everything is working same as before the whole issue happened.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It may take a lot of time for their system to run through everyones devices and determine if they are past due or something