“We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate’s service is more valuable.” ― Gabe Newell
It may be my memory but I recall this was a thing in the beginning of Netflix streaming when they added profiles waaaaay back. My Ex had her email and login, I had mine, we had a shared account though. I remember this because when they broke this, I lost my profile because my Ex claimed primary and couldn’t use my email to create a new account.
Gmail “+” trick: Hello!
The plus trick actually works with pretty much any email provider, the dot trick is the one that only gmail has iirc.
I have . aliases with Proton.
I got so many months of HBO free trial with this.
I used to do that with udemy. I’d sign up with a + email to get the severe discounts. They cottoned on though and all my accounts were banned
Shame! Luckily HBO never banned me, they just stopped offering a free trial altogether :(
This is only if you were scammed into buying an “extra member”.
And what about kids lol.
This is so stupid. I have my own domain so I’ll just create jargon addresses, tie them, delete the addresses, done.
You dont even have to do that, refreshing once you get to the “enter confirmation code” screen bypasses confirming the email 😆
You haven’t logged in in a while. Please confirm your email.
"Recently, my father called me in a panic.
There were just a few minutes until Netflix would start streaming a live MMA event, and he couldn’t get into my account. For a while, he had accessed Netflix as an add-on member with his own profile through my household’s account. That day, however, he was logged out and couldn’t use my login credentials to watch Netflix. Instead, he saw a prompt asking him to “add an email address to your profile” to continue."
But isn’t this account sharing? I thought they’d been “cracking down” on this for some time now. Paid extra account or not, I thought their policy was one account per household?
Actually the more I think of it, yea something isn’t adding up here. An extra member would have had their own username and profile anyway, so they wouldn’t be using the owners account email and password
note: I deleted my original comment cause the more I thought of it yea something is up.
And disposable email services come back into vogue.
If you’re going to go against the rules, why not move to piracy and be done with that?
“Either you die a hero or live enough to become a villain”
So ignoring my opinions of netflix.
This doesn’t seem like that bad of a thing. Like it makes it a pain for local profiles but, their intent was to have each profile linked to a separate person and allows for being in a separate IP address because they removed the same household restriction. It kind of makes sense to have an identifier component, especially since the current route requires everyone to be using the same username/password which breaks IT 101. I’ve actually found it really weird that the mainstream media services didn’t require that already, since most local media streaming alternatives like jellyfin have it a email&password per profile.
If sucks if you want a generic children’s profile or something for guests.
