Gregory's Serveri figure that this is worth a cross-website post:
some verification process that netflix has put in place to seemingly cut down on cross-household account sharing is a pretty significant photosensitive seizure risk, it sounds like
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@arrjay i would be interested in testing it out myself to see what exactly they're looking for but i don't think we even have an active netflix account in the family right now @arrjay i was thinking the same thing, wondering if it's only something they can really do as an android/ios app. kind of why i don't like company specific 'apps' @arrjay my thought is, given how OP's network setup sounds a little bit screwy they might have misfired something that's intended to differentiate 'households' behind a cg-nat setup or something like that. but these things are always intentionally a little bit opaque  @rudi @arrjay it's okay with four discrete Wi-Fi APs, correctly NAT'ed, which we have now that we have fibre, but we used to have four routers, each connected to its own 4G modem, and I bet that would have set off whatever OP triggered. I can only speak to Netflix France, but it sounds like OP and I have similarly inconvenient-to-network rural architecture. @HauntedOwlbear @rudi *looks over at 4G sticks* oh, I could use some QoS to deliver a _really_ bad time. @rudi also besides the point, their WiFi sucks *because* they have four different WiFi networks.  @JessTheUnstill @rudi lol this is me. I set up a site-2-site from the main house to the vacation house so it showed as one network and havenโt had any issues. I also donโt broadcast WiFi names so unless theyโre trying to grab BSSIDs they arenโt grabbing that either.      @rudi Good thing i canceled my Netflix sub back when they were caught downsizing a bunch of their LGBTQ staff a few years ago.  @rudi also, yet another example of what software engineers think are open-and-shot categories... aren't. Like, no service provider should get to dictate how many wifi networks you have for whatever reason that is none of their fucking business.    @rudi Fuck Netflix for making that process literally seizure-inducing. Fuck them. I hope OP's partner recovered from Netflix's assault. But on a sidenote: ...were they using other people's/public WiFis or what's up with this "We have four WiFis, all of them suck" lark? @rudi hm, I'd be interested in seeing if there's footage of this. Might have been a bug rather than intentional, tbh I've never heard of taking video of a QR sequence like that (a single code would normally suffice, and almost certainly easier to implement) |
this is very much a tangent and besides the point so i'm not going to go poking at OP for information about what their network setup is like, but if their four different wifi networks are four routers all going to the same modem upstream then it sounds like netflix also might be sending the names of wifi networks or private ip addresses back to HQ which sketches me out but is not really surprising to me given the kind of lengths that netflix has been going to in order to cut down on account sharing
e: just want to emphasize that this is very much theoretical, and i don't really have a way to test it myself
this is very much a tangent and besides the point so i'm not going to go poking at OP for information about what their network setup is like, but if their four different wifi networks are four routers all going to the same modem upstream then it sounds like netflix also might be sending the names of wifi networks or private ip addresses back to HQ which sketches me out but is not really surprising to me given the kind of lengths that netflix has been going to in order to cut down on account sharing