I figured I’d pay for a month of Netflix so that the movie creators would get paid.
I paid and THEN Netflix asked for a phone number. Why do they need a phone number when we all know SMS spoofing is trivial?
At this point, I hadn’t even logged in, and I was done with Netflix. Then and there, I cancelled my subscription.
However, the next day, I was able to log in with no problem. No phone number needed.
Alright. I figured I could use the month’s worth of Netflix I paid for. I searched for the movie and tried watching it. I couldn’t.
- “You can’t use a VPN”
- “Your browser doesn’t let us spy on you enough”
- “Honestly we’re just tempting you to get this movie through piracy lol”
- “Nah, we don’t care about you. We care about profits xoxo”
- “Nah. No refunds. We warned you”
I don’t know what I was thinking.
Oh yeah, I wanted to support artists. But Netflix made it impossible. What a joke.
If it’s a Netflix only movie, watching it on Netflix doesn’t get the artist more money. It might get them sign off on future project but Netflix almost exclusively pays flat fee amounts because they do not want to share their viewership data with anyone.
Oh wow. Looked it up and it’s every bit as bleak as you mentioned. Thanks for letting me know