The best example I experienced was when I tried to watch an apple tv original show with my cousin (who has family access to the service). He wanted to log in to his account on my laptop and needed to verify his dad's credit card to do so. No problem, but it took a while. After that we still couldn't watch, because the player didn't load the video for some reason. Cue my cousin fiddling about trying to fix the issue.

In the meantime I had started to download the first two episodes and copied it on a thumb drive.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago

Netflix cracking down on the sharers has made Netflix difficult for us non-sharers. I don't want to watch Netflix on my phone, but I do want to curate my watch list on it. But because now there's a limit to the number of devices you can use, we have to reserve use for the devices we use most frequently. This means that, when we fly, getting media onto the devices we use infrequently is a PITA.

It's easier just to grab them elsewhere.

(2 ppl x 3 devices ea) + 3 other household devices > Netflix's limit. That's just us, and I'm being conservative... it doesn't count desktops AND laptops. If we had kids, it'd be worse.