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.
That's the new game in town. They spent decades hammering it into us that we need to pay for things, but now they've decided to wring every last bit of value they can obtain out of us in the process. They're using the indoctrination to pay for things in order to obtain power over us that money alone can't buy.
Paying them was part of a social contract which they keep adding more clauses to, whether or not we're okay with it. Just go back to piracy. If creators want to get paid, they can stop getting in bed with the fucking devil himself.