No updates are good updates?

JPNZ:

 

No updates are good updates?

 

Yup, turns out it was 28 pages of angst over not much :) Who knew?! :)

networkn: Yup, turns out it was 28 pages of angst over not much :) Who knew?! :)

I have not personally been nagged so don't think they released the "full force" of this and instead targeted the worst offenders leaving people like myself who have my Netflix logged in at 2 locations (plus the car) alone. I do see in my profile that my household is listed as a secondary household but never got the message.

I'd like to think that this is in part to people like us complaining but as soon as I get a message for the account I pay for (noting that my parents are listed as the primary household on my own account) I'll be sure to moan about it a little more.

JPNZ:

 

No updates are good updates?

 

My smart TV was blocked (shared account) a couple of months ago. Now watch on mobile devices 🤷

Didn't get any problems using our Netflix account when we were in Norway for a couple of months - and the main was still at home in NZ and being used. So didn't cause a problem for us, but I was nervous it might have. 

Possibly didn't work out quite as they'd hoped - https://www.forbes.com.au/news/innovation/netflix-password-crackdown-backfires/

"New figures released by Telsyte show Netflix subscriber numbers fell in June, and almost 200,000 Australian users have abandoned the service over the last 12 months. It is the first time the streaming service has seen a decline in Australian subscribers."

Obviously unlikely to have been purely due to the change (given the change happened in May), but could well be a factor too. 

michaelmurfy:

 

networkn: Yup, turns out it was 28 pages of angst over not much :) Who knew?! :)

 

I have not personally been nagged so don't think they released the "full force" of this and instead targeted the worst offenders leaving people like myself who have my Netflix logged in at 2 locations (plus the car) alone. I do see in my profile that my household is listed as a secondary household but never got the message.

 

I'd like to think that this is in part to people like us complaining but as soon as I get a message for the account I pay for (noting that my parents are listed as the primary household on my own account) I'll be sure to moan about it a little more.

 

How do you see which address is the primary household?

drajk:

 

How do you see which address is the primary household?

 

You check it in your TV app.

How to set or update a Netflix Household

Just to preempt the question:

"If you don’t watch Netflix on a TV or don’t have one, you do not need to set a Netflix Household for your account."

michaelmurfy: ...leaving people like myself who have my Netflix logged in at 2 locations (plus the car) alone....

Logged in via Mobile apps or via a SmartTV?

I got the impression they were targeting TVs running the app, and not much else - after my son's TV (in a different location) got locked out, he could still use the account via mobile/Chromecast to the same TV, for example.  

We eventually "went legit" and signed him up as a secondary account - after reducing from the Premium to the Standard; as we didn't need to pay for 4 streams anymore, and I really don't notice the difference between standard and 4K content anyway, despite having a 4K TV (probably due to having older eyeballs, tbh) - for us, this worked out cost-neutral as I dropped my Spark "with netflix" mobile 4G connection to a cheaper plan at the same time.

drajk: How do you see which address is the primary household?

There was also once a column in "Devices.csv" when you download your data showing if a device is part of the household. I note that any reference to this is now gone which is actually rather interesting.

If I recall correctly this was also once shown in the device section in your account but is gone now too. Spent a good wee while trying to hunt it down.

Yeah, we just go it at our Wellington property as well.  No obvious solution.   Note, this was my SO other and I using the Smart TVs in two properties that we own.

It looks like one household means one house.

We've cancelled our Netflix membership and picked up Apple's service Instead.  Also, because cheap Netflix was one of the reasons we are with Spark, I'll kick them for touch on both properties as well, when I get around to it.