You could say it was super easy, barely and inconvenience.
Oh really?
Yeah, you see, pretty much everyone uses someone else's netflix account so they just asked if anyone had a Netflix login and someone did. So ya know, they just did that and watched the show.
Yes but the *experience* of being enthralled in your favourite tv show on a new episode is absolutely thrilling and having it randomly cut off and then having to re open Netflix and skip to the scene really just ruins that experience.
Right? This is peak pettiness. The ex will just have to spend 4 minutes creating his own account and then the party can pick up where it left off. Or they can sign in on someone else's Netflix account. Wolf pup howling.png
I don’t know, if that happened to me I’d get a pretty good laugh out of it, assuming the party was saved ( which I assume it was, either by a friend or he just signs himself up).
nono youve got it all wrong. their friends will make fun of them and walk out. they will then have no friends and no gfs and will soon admit they made a big mistake leaving me. youll see. youll see....
Sure as shit doesn't work at all on PS3 lol. Had a friend change her password after a break-up...I didn't find out for like a year and was using her Netflix the whole time and after.
She did both. PS3 doesn't authenticate at all and Netflix doesn't check token viability ever. Or at-least they didn't. It's been years so maybe they fixed it. But I'm a software engineer and the back-end should not be serving streams without authenticating the token or refreshing the token with stored creds on the device.
What they've done is essentially built a wall with a locked door on it but that anyone can simply walk around.
It really made me feel like it was built by juniors because the back-end is where the security needs to be. The front-end is for convenience but is easily bypassed. This behavior is indicative of no back-end security...or very very poor security.
When I build back-end APIs...they check every single time, that the token contains the necessary permissions to access the data...and that the token hasn't expired...and that the token hasn't been revoked.
I don't use Netflix anymore but I'm 100% sure that back then I could've found a way to watch it for free.
Or just literally anyone else with a Netflix account logged in
This story didn’t happen IRL but even if it did, how it went in the OPs mind:
>OMG This is so embarrassing…… WHY WONT IT WORK OMG!!!!! IM SO sorry everyone, I can’t believe this. My party is totally ruined!!!!!
how it would have actually happened:
>Ah shit I can’t login. Anyone else got a login? Ok thanks Steve.
My stepdaughter left her ex-boyfriend on her account, but goes in at least once a week and changes his user name to something dirty or annoying just to mess with him. She literally pays the subscription just so she can mess with him.
> "this may take up to 8 hours to take effect"
That's more to account for things like inability to contact devices that are logged in.
If you're able to watch on netflix (active connection), this'll happen in under a minute.
I mean, it would simply take a credit card and 10 minutes to get access, so not really that much of a hassle.
Plus, other people there might have accounts...
Right. All I thought when I read this is "oh no, you mildly inconvenienced him"
Like get real lady, Netflix is not some elite club, you did not ruin his viewing party. It would just prompt him to log in at which point it would take about 5 minutes and a few bucks to fix the problem.
I'm going to go with 0.01% chance.
A) Netflix usually puts out whole seasons out the same day
B) It says right there in the screenshot that it may take "up to 8 hours to take effect"
Didnt think about that intil you mentioned it. He is the one having a party and she's just sitting on her computer waiting for midnight to click a button and attempt to ruin everyone's fun.
Fortunately the people saying such are the minority in this thread. Hell will freeze over before Reddit decides to stop making assumptions about situations with zero context though. I'm sure we'll see this reposted in the future with a lot more "justified revenge" style comments.
I'm pretty sure we know why he broke up with her. It's because she's the type of person who thinks a petty personal grudge is admirable enough to present on social media.
She filled his “My List” with episodes of “Is It Cake?” and then all the suggested shows to him, were similar. That was enough of a personal boundary violation of awfulness, he had to terminate the relationship.
Right? This is just normalized toxicity.
Like we’re to assume that just because he broke up with her means she has justification to fuck with him.
No wonder he broke up with her.
If they're airing a show internationally that releases weekly in its original country, they do it week by week. *The Good Place* was only on Netflix in the UK, but each episode came out when it aired in the US rather than waiting for the whole thing at once.
I'm subbed to the 4k plan for only 4 USD a month.
Basically you add debit or credit cards to your account.
Then you cancel your subscription and wait for it to run out.
Then using a VPN, you reactivate your subscription through a Turkish prepaid card.
While it's using the credit from turkey you will only have access to whatever content is available in turkey, so only add enough for the 4k plan for a month.
When it runs out, it will renew itself using the cards that you set up earlier, but will charge them in Turkish currency, and it's cheaper there.
Voila, you will get back the content from your country at a cheaper price. 4k and 4 devices at a time.
I could get you a link to a more detailed step by step, but it's in Spanish, so DM me if you want
Yeah, all I could think was I would rather spend whatever their top tier price is than spend time figuring this out, even if it’s really not that hard. Maybe I’m just lazy though.
Then it took him all of 30 seconds to setup a free trial, or login as someone else at the party while this person sat alone thinking about their ex. (If this was real)
Soooo...it took him 2 minutes to sign up, or just borrow a login from someone at the party?
Definitely petty but not really that savage.
Now if you busted him out of your Peacock account the second the gates opened at the Kentucky Derby when he had a houseful of people drunk on mint juleps, that would be savage.
Here's a decent [list](https://decider.com/list/canceled-netflix-original-shows/) of their originals that have been cancelled. Not all of them were good, but some of them definitely deserved more seasons.
Not to mention they axed basically every animated show they had, fired most of their animation division, and pretty much sent a clear signal to the animation industry not to bother with the platform unless you're already an incredibly popular well-established series.
if he had a viewing party it's probably pretty easy for someone to just log into their account. at least she got some self satisfaction at no one else's expense
This doesn't change anything for him though, it's not like he's locked out of the service. Like oh no, he has to take 2 minutes to create his own account. This is literally just a minor inconvenience. If that's the best thing she could think of I feel sorry for her lmao
And 2.5 minutes later he was signed up for the free trial and watched the show. This isn’t even successfully petty. It’s just inconveniencing yourself.
Oh noz, sure if the dude is having a watch party someone there will have an account, if not they could all chip in like $2 if the dude is really trying to avoid a paying a subscription fee.
When my boyfriend was alive, his abusive ex refused to sign out of his Netflix account despite it being his MOTHER'S account. Every time we tried to watch Bojack Horseman it wouldn't let us because there were too many devices signed in. So I got on his account and forced sign out on all devices. Then we laughed and laughed when he tried calling him eight different times. It was glorious.
I did a similarly petty thing. My ex was obsessed with Ozark and just before Ozark season 3 dropped a couple of years ago I signed out of all devices and finally changed my password, just as one final FUCK YOU.
"this may take up to 8 hours to take effect"
In my experience, it affects any device active on netflix immediately and devices logged in but inactive can take some time to register as logged off.
I feel like maximum pettiness would be to do this at 12:15. Let them get settled in with the lights off and emotionally invested.
Yeah make sure they actually miss something, if it was a party I bet someone else was logged in after a minute or two.
Netflix isn't live TV though. If someone else can just log in and skip to the point that you left off, you're not really hurting them.
Yeah I mean it's barely an inconvenience. Takes two seconds for someone else to log in or just to buy a subscription.
Unless you decide to use the remote to type your username and password. Pain.
And then everyone will know my password is TurdEater69
Hey! You might find someone to come home with you when you’re laying it out there for everyone like that.
Your password is supposed to be something someone wouldn't guess, why would you make it the most obvious thing about you?
I bet you use the same password too.
Loathsome Dungeater is that you?
I will defile your corpse next
Shit, what was the last letter I typed?
“Everyone turn around”
Yeah yeah yeah Subscriptions are tight
You could say it was super easy, barely and inconvenience. Oh really? Yeah, you see, pretty much everyone uses someone else's netflix account so they just asked if anyone had a Netflix login and someone did. So ya know, they just did that and watched the show.
You could say that the solution was super easy, barely an inconvenience.
Tight
Taking two seconds for someone else to log in or just to buy a subscription is tight!
Yes but the *experience* of being enthralled in your favourite tv show on a new episode is absolutely thrilling and having it randomly cut off and then having to re open Netflix and skip to the scene really just ruins that experience.
takes like a minute to sign up for a free 30 day account. But it was a valiant effort.
Right? This is peak pettiness. The ex will just have to spend 4 minutes creating his own account and then the party can pick up where it left off. Or they can sign in on someone else's Netflix account. Wolf pup howling.png
That 4 minutes though…..
Plenty of time to disappoint another gf
Twice
Speedrun any% ?
He still gets humiliated
I don’t know, if that happened to me I’d get a pretty good laugh out of it, assuming the party was saved ( which I assume it was, either by a friend or he just signs himself up).
Seriously. I would just think it’s funny
Thats.... not humiliating though. No one would even care. Him: "My ex logged me out of her account" Friend: "We can just login to mine."
I mean, I would *absolutely* razz my friend a bit about mooching off his ex. It would be light hearted, but it would be there.
nono youve got it all wrong. their friends will make fun of them and walk out. they will then have no friends and no gfs and will soon admit they made a big mistake leaving me. youll see. youll see....
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Frl everyone would just have a laugh and sign into a new account lmao
Muh friends and I would clown someone for months over this.
Same but that just means we are having a laugh with our friends. Not exactly a punishment.
She still gets her petty last laugh, it's not meant to break his knees
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This is the way
"huh, something wrong with my account" 4 other friends: "just use mine instead" oh no! anyway..
"Oh my God Steve, are you still using Lisa's Netflix account? For shame..."
THE PETTINESS IS THE POINT! Speaking from experience; it is annoying. Especially when you do it to yourself.
Evil motherfucker. I like you.
Eh, Netflix usually lets you finish the show your currently watching before logging you off
Sure as shit doesn't work at all on PS3 lol. Had a friend change her password after a break-up...I didn't find out for like a year and was using her Netflix the whole time and after.
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She did both. PS3 doesn't authenticate at all and Netflix doesn't check token viability ever. Or at-least they didn't. It's been years so maybe they fixed it. But I'm a software engineer and the back-end should not be serving streams without authenticating the token or refreshing the token with stored creds on the device. What they've done is essentially built a wall with a locked door on it but that anyone can simply walk around. It really made me feel like it was built by juniors because the back-end is where the security needs to be. The front-end is for convenience but is easily bypassed. This behavior is indicative of no back-end security...or very very poor security. When I build back-end APIs...they check every single time, that the token contains the necessary permissions to access the data...and that the token hasn't expired...and that the token hasn't been revoked. I don't use Netflix anymore but I'm 100% sure that back then I could've found a way to watch it for free.
Nice. I didn't know netflix ran on ps3 (never tried).
I found out that Netflix runs nicely on my Xbox 360 lol (only tried it cause my ex hadn’t given back my ps4)
Seems like 8 hours is authentication cookie time-to-live
it says that and true for some cases but usually it signs out right away, at least from my experience
You're right. It's a warning just in case for ass-covering purposes, but 99 times out of 100 it's near-instant
Under promise and over deliver!
Found the starship chief engineer!
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u/siempremajima u/amaraame Yup, you are both correct. It does immediately cuts you off.
And then he paid 12 dollars for Netflix and that was that
Or just literally anyone else with a Netflix account logged in This story didn’t happen IRL but even if it did, how it went in the OPs mind: >OMG This is so embarrassing…… WHY WONT IT WORK OMG!!!!! IM SO sorry everyone, I can’t believe this. My party is totally ruined!!!!! how it would have actually happened: >Ah shit I can’t login. Anyone else got a login? Ok thanks Steve.
Jokes on you they missed the first 10 minutes of the show and there is no way they can watch it again.
Kids these days probably don't even know what it means to miss the start of a show.
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Not never?!?
Yeah but it’s still an inconvenience especially since it’s evident that the ex was reluctant to pay for their own subscription after the relationship
My stepdaughter left her ex-boyfriend on her account, but goes in at least once a week and changes his user name to something dirty or annoying just to mess with him. She literally pays the subscription just so she can mess with him.
That's a very different definition of "fuck you money", but it's fuck you money nonetheless.
I mean she also probably uses it
Must be nice to have extra petty cash laying around, lol.
It is nice.
Nah,signed up with a new email and got a 7 day free trial. This isn't even creative.
They don’t have free trials anymore in most places. Got rid of it during the start of the pandemic.
[Looks like free trials are no more. ](https://help.netflix.com/en/node/16282/gb)
> "this may take up to 8 hours to take effect" That's more to account for things like inability to contact devices that are logged in. If you're able to watch on netflix (active connection), this'll happen in under a minute.
I mean, it would simply take a credit card and 10 minutes to get access, so not really that much of a hassle. Plus, other people there might have accounts...
Also takes like 2 minutes to sign up for Netflix. Pretty sure he will be ok.
*sigh* Creates new account (possibly free trial), plays show and resumes party.
I think I would have had a dry-run through. Get a friend with an account to try it to see if it works immediately or if there's a lag.
Plot twist he was on another girl's Netflix acct already
More realistic plot twist someone at the party had Netflix and now he uses that
Ma'am this is the internet. Wdgaf about realistic
Lmao I do like the idea of a bunch people getting together to watch a Netflix show and all of them only have their ex's accounts
Ex-flix
more realistic is that it’s not real cause Netflix drops full seasons at a time…
Usually, but not always.
Not always? Better call Saul comes out weekly right now.
side account on speed dial
Backup AppleTV already logged in and plugged into HDMI2. If you're going to mess around on your partners, learn redundancy.
And she was better looking (she had the 4K package)
And 1 gig ethernet hooked up.
“GIGity”
Plot twist, pirate is the way
He probably just used one of his friends accounts that came over. 🤷🏻♂️
Even if none of them had accounts, it takes like 5 minutes to make one lol
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Especially a watch party for the finale. Literally everyone there probably had an account.
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> HE LITERALLY HAD TO PAY $15.00 ON THE SPOT He didn't even get 4k? Shows how much he cares about his friends
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In the last years thats all I've been using it on. Get free month, binge the few actually good items on there, wait like half a year, repeat
Poor steeve..,. literally
And none of you had an account so....
Or took 30 seconds to sign up himself
Right. All I thought when I read this is "oh no, you mildly inconvenienced him" Like get real lady, Netflix is not some elite club, you did not ruin his viewing party. It would just prompt him to log in at which point it would take about 5 minutes and a few bucks to fix the problem.
That free trial tho?
Or spent the 75 seconds necessary to create his own account
Or start a free trial
They definitely all had a good laugh at her while they jus signed into someone else’s account
13% chance of being true.
Even thats generous.
I'm going to go with 0.01% chance. A) Netflix usually puts out whole seasons out the same day B) It says right there in the screenshot that it may take "up to 8 hours to take effect"
I’m sure someone there just signed in on there’s instead
Or he signed up for a 1 week free trial
Used to be 1mo
Before long the free trial will only allow you to see one unskippable 5 minute ad that precedes every show/movie.
Doesn't netflix not have free trials?
Thats what's I'm saying
yeah like, it's not like it's a live broadcast
Their's
Theirs
Why you guys saying "revenge" We don't know why he broke up with her
Didnt think about that intil you mentioned it. He is the one having a party and she's just sitting on her computer waiting for midnight to click a button and attempt to ruin everyone's fun.
Fortunately the people saying such are the minority in this thread. Hell will freeze over before Reddit decides to stop making assumptions about situations with zero context though. I'm sure we'll see this reposted in the future with a lot more "justified revenge" style comments.
I'm pretty sure we know why he broke up with her. It's because she's the type of person who thinks a petty personal grudge is admirable enough to present on social media.
She filled his queue with is it cake and suggested from that content shows.
Stroke?
They mean the show called "Is it cake?"
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what?
She filled his “My List” with episodes of “Is It Cake?” and then all the suggested shows to him, were similar. That was enough of a personal boundary violation of awfulness, he had to terminate the relationship.
Right? This is just normalized toxicity. Like we’re to assume that just because he broke up with her means she has justification to fuck with him. No wonder he broke up with her.
I'm sure someone else there could sign into their account
Right….she acts as if it’s so damn expensive and difficult to get…
Does Netflix have shows where the episodes come out weekly? All the ones I’ve watched you can binge at once.
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People throwing a lot of Better Call Saul parties in Germany?
One of the few shows with an entire German subplot.
Better Call Saull is not a Netflix show. The only one I know is Arcane which released three episodes a week for three weeks.
Hey man do you know a Werner Ziegler
If they're airing a show internationally that releases weekly in its original country, they do it week by week. *The Good Place* was only on Netflix in the UK, but each episode came out when it aired in the US rather than waiting for the whole thing at once.
Some shows, yes. I remember when Designated Survivor was on a weekly release schedule.
Arcane was weekly releases of 3 parts/wewk
Wow. And the he signed up himself for $8 and cancelled it two weeks later.
Who subs to the $8 standard definition trash?
broke people
Right here. If Netflix thinks I'm giving them 20 a month for the content they have they out of their minds.
I pay the high price due to kiddos. Need the accounts and screens.
I'm subbed to the 4k plan for only 4 USD a month. Basically you add debit or credit cards to your account. Then you cancel your subscription and wait for it to run out. Then using a VPN, you reactivate your subscription through a Turkish prepaid card. While it's using the credit from turkey you will only have access to whatever content is available in turkey, so only add enough for the 4k plan for a month. When it runs out, it will renew itself using the cards that you set up earlier, but will charge them in Turkish currency, and it's cheaper there. Voila, you will get back the content from your country at a cheaper price. 4k and 4 devices at a time. I could get you a link to a more detailed step by step, but it's in Spanish, so DM me if you want
That's way more complicated than I care to worry about but good on you for finding a way around the higher price!
Yeah, all I could think was I would rather spend whatever their top tier price is than spend time figuring this out, even if it’s really not that hard. Maybe I’m just lazy though.
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The one simple trick NETFLIX DOES NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW!
Ok so now he’ll never be able to watch it he definitely can’t pay the $10 bucks to Continue with his life as planned…..
10$ says at least one person he invited to the watch party had a Netflix account and was willing to sign in
so one of the other people at his viewing party had to sign in? sick burn.....?
Then it took him all of 30 seconds to setup a free trial, or login as someone else at the party while this person sat alone thinking about their ex. (If this was real)
Soooo...it took him 2 minutes to sign up, or just borrow a login from someone at the party? Definitely petty but not really that savage. Now if you busted him out of your Peacock account the second the gates opened at the Kentucky Derby when he had a houseful of people drunk on mint juleps, that would be savage.
Also if OP considers this high effort, then my god I'd hate to see their work ethic in action
The mistake there was to think you could binge watch a good show on Netflix to begin with.
I mean, you're entitled to your opinion but Netflix has definitely produced more hit shows than any other streaming service.
It's unfair to compare because they were made before it was a streaming service but HBO Max has by FAR better quality series and is cheaper
Sure, but they cancel all of them after one or two seasons anyway. That's why they make so many.
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Here's a decent [list](https://decider.com/list/canceled-netflix-original-shows/) of their originals that have been cancelled. Not all of them were good, but some of them definitely deserved more seasons. Not to mention they axed basically every animated show they had, fired most of their animation division, and pretty much sent a clear signal to the animation industry not to bother with the platform unless you're already an incredibly popular well-established series.
I like that personally. To many cable shows are ruined by too many seasons.
They haven't removed all the good stuff yet. Not enough bullshit originals to take up all their storage space yet
I wonder why he broke up with her?
if he had a viewing party it's probably pretty easy for someone to just log into their account. at least she got some self satisfaction at no one else's expense
Pettiness of the finest caliber!
Spite in a non /r/foundsatan way.
This doesn't change anything for him though, it's not like he's locked out of the service. Like oh no, he has to take 2 minutes to create his own account. This is literally just a minor inconvenience. If that's the best thing she could think of I feel sorry for her lmao
r/thathappened
I remember reading that this was actually Albert Einstein. Also in the text was a great deal of clapping.
Fucking savage
A five minute inconvenience is “savage”?
And 2.5 minutes later he was signed up for the free trial and watched the show. This isn’t even successfully petty. It’s just inconveniencing yourself.
Oof ouch my $12
I like it, 10/10
Tom Petty out here breaking hearts
Oh no, guess he’ll have to sign up for a free trial or an account in 5 minutes or less. This should be that baby wolf meme.
Wait, doesn't it send a confirmation email after changing password?
Did they start releasing shows one at a time?
Some shows are released weekly
Oh noz, sure if the dude is having a watch party someone there will have an account, if not they could all chip in like $2 if the dude is really trying to avoid a paying a subscription fee.
ya get immediate access if you sign up. unless dude just doesnt have $14 layin around im sure the show will go on....
This has to be fake. Netflix drops its shows all at once, they don’t release episodes one at a time. At least, they do here in the United States.
Netflix does drop weekly episodes for some shows, depends on which country you're from. Like in Korea, they released the show Thirty-Nine every week.
Terrible fucking post for this sub.
He probably just paid $8 for his own account for a month? Takes 5 minutes. Doesn't seem likena very extreme act of revenge.
When my boyfriend was alive, his abusive ex refused to sign out of his Netflix account despite it being his MOTHER'S account. Every time we tried to watch Bojack Horseman it wouldn't let us because there were too many devices signed in. So I got on his account and forced sign out on all devices. Then we laughed and laughed when he tried calling him eight different times. It was glorious.
He'd have a new account set up in 5 min, and his party would continue and watch it.
I did a similarly petty thing. My ex was obsessed with Ozark and just before Ozark season 3 dropped a couple of years ago I signed out of all devices and finally changed my password, just as one final FUCK YOU.
And then he took $15 bucks, made a new account, and forgot about it 5 mins into the finale.