When there's no more chill

found on Dump A Day

Maybe it's just me, but I would have thought that if your relationship with someone is so bad that you have to block them then surely you'd also stop using their Netflix account, wouldn't you?

Not so chill anymore

from here and here

I understand that they'd probably rather not have to deal with even more support tickets about forgotten passwords, but Netflix's users did already have the tools to deal with freeloaders on their accounts if they really wanted to, without this new feature.

Extra fees in 3...2...1...

from here and here

I have a feeling VPNs are going to take a hit because of this new Netflix policy. It may only be rolled out to a few countries right now, but as soon as it becomes widespread it's going to present VPNs with a problem. It directly attacks location shifting, which is one of, if not THE main use case for VPNs. People aren't going to want to pay as much for VPNs if there are going to be additional fees from other services in response to using a VPN.

You might be thinking that VPNs will still be necessary for security/privacy, but you don't really gain much in those areas now that the majority of websites use HTTPS. VPN companies may still be able to sell their services on this use case, but then they'll just be peddling snake-oil.

Netflix lost it's chill

found on Izismile

I guess they no longer believe that "sharing is caring". Do they not realize this is how we Netflix & chill in a pandemic?