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Netflix To Eliminate Profiles Feature
Donald Burr of Borg writes "One of my favorite features of Netflix, the video-rental-by-mail service, is 'profiles.' Profiles lets you create 'sub-accounts' for your friends/family, so that they can share in the video rental love. Each profile gets his/her own Netflix queue that he/she can manage with their own login/password. You can divide up how many movies get sent to you vs. the other profiles under your account. E.g. if you have a 6-out-at-once plan, you can choose to get 3 movies at a time, and have 3 other profiles each receive 1 movie. Unfortunately, the fun stops September 1, at which point Netflix is, for unknown reasons, going to terminate this feature. Why? To '...help us to continue to improve the Netflix website for all our customers.' Improvement indeed."
I canceled my NetFlix account because they never responded to me when I asked 3 times if they would ever have a way to view their streaming thing in GNU/Linux or at least Firefox instead of being forced to use Internet Explorer.
Not a bad idea, mailing DVD's back and forth (the US postal service has to get SOME use now with the internet taking over), and the price wasn't something to cause any hesitation, I just couldn't stand getting ignored.
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
I tagged the article "1984" and "bigbrother" because 90% of the idiots here will see the word "profile" and jump to the same conclusion.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."