Um, Password Sharing is Caring, Netflix 📺
➕ Netflix is this week’s villain of the week, North Korea-backed hackers stole $1.7bn (£1.4bn) of crypto in 2022, and horoscopes 🔮
Happy Friday my angels! Would you believe that as I’m writing this IT’S STILL RAINING?? When will Auckland get a break??? Yesterday I recorded THREE podcasts for you (one was The Shit Show which just dropped so you can listen now) and two were with Liv for our super spesh breakup podcast (coming soooooon.) I think this might have taken it outta me though because when I got home I literally had the BIGGEST headache, and all I could do was sit in a dark room and wait for sleep to come over me. That’s not important though - how are you? What are you doing this weekend? Are you happy or just distracted?? Let me know in the comments/ in my inbox xx
PS! It’s Waitangi weekend this weekend, so you won’t be getting a new edish of the newsy until Tuesday (but don’t worry - all our paying supporters will be getting the Friday link round-up and Bel’s Saturday newsy xxx)
Netflix is this week’s villain of the week!
New episode of The Shit Show
North Korea-backed hackers stole $1.7bn (£1.4bn) of crypto in 2022
It’s Friday so you get horoscopes
The 1975 played their self-titled album last night
Win over $400 of Pleasing products 💅
Netflix is this week’s villain of the week!
Say you don’t care about uni/college students, people who travel for a living, broken families and people who don’t have wifi in their homes without saying you don’t care about uni/college students, people who travel for a living, broken families and people who don’t have wifi in their homes:
Netflix has just introduced some ✨unique✨ new methods to crack down on password sharing - like making you log in using your home wifi every 30 days or your account will be blocked. Here are some of the questions you probs have, answered by Streamable:
Can You Still Share Netflix With Someone Who Doesn’t Live With You?
No, accounts are only meant to be used within one household. Netflix will prompt users who try to sign into your account elsewhere to sign up for their own account instead and block their access until they do. Netflix will NOT begin automatically charging account holders whose information is used outside of their homes.
Can You Still Use Netflix While Traveling?
Signing into Netflix outside of your home may lead to the device in use being blocked from Netflix. This could prevent you from signing into new devices while traveling, but Netflix has devised a workaround. Traveling users who want to use Netflix on a hotel smart TV, company laptop, etc. can request a temporary code from the service when signing in. This will give them access to their account for seven consecutive days.
How Can You Prevent Netflix from Blocking Your Devices?
Signing into home Wi-Fi at least once every 31 days on your devices will make them “trusted devices,” which Netflix will remember and leave unblocked. If your device has been blocked incorrectly, you’ll need to contact Netflix in order to get it unblocked.
How Will Netflix Know if You’re Not in Your Home/Primary Location?
Netflix uses information such as IP addresses, device IDs, and account activity to determine whether a device signed into your account is connected at your primary location. If your device is being used outside your home by someone you haven’t authorized, you can sign into your account and sign out on all other devices, then change your password.
To be clear, I haven’t seen a SINGLE person who’s happy with this decision. Most people don’t feel like Netflix has a catalogue of shows even remotely good enough to make them sign up for their own account. I actually ran a poll on SYSCA asking how many people would start forking out for their own Netflix account and 84% said they wouldn’t.
New episode of The Shit Show: Let’s talk about Tyre Nichols
This week Squish and I start off by talking about the floods in Auckland (of course), before talking about the police brutality that lead to the death of Tyre Nichols. Listen wherever you get your podcasts!
North Korea-backed hackers stole $1.7bn (£1.4bn) of crypto in 2022
North Korea are slaying the game when it comes to… crypto hacking. The blockchain analysis firm ‘chainology’ has just found that last year North Korean hackers managed to steal $1.7b, which according to my calculations is… a lot.
Last year was known as the ‘biggest year ever’ for crypto hacking (who’s surprised?) with $3.8b being stolen in total. Does anyone remember the last time we heard anything good about crypto?
It’s Friday so you get horoscopes!
As a libra, mine says ‘doors are about to open’ for me, AND that gift-giving is my love language today (it’s actually always my love language.)
The 1975 played their self-titled album last night
And I literally would have given anything to be there. Literally anything. That’s all, just felt like I had to share.
💅Win a box of Pleasing goodies!! 💅
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