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12-12-2017, 09:37 AM
Netflix pulls some Big Brother nonsense with your data
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Netflix watches you, too.
The streaming service sent what it probablythought was an innocuous-enough tweet (http://mashable.com/2017/12/11/netflix-trolling-users-a-christmas-prince/) Sunday night, ribbing a few dozen of its users for partaking in a holiday-inspired B-movie binge. ***
To the 53 people who've watched A Christmas Prince every day for the past 18 days: Who hurt you?
— Netflix US (@netflix) December 11, 2017 (https://twitter.com/netflix/status/940051734650503168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
We reached out to a Netflix rep, who confirmed the tweet is accurate: 53 people have watched A Christmas Prince every day for 18 days. Imagine being one of them right now.
This is nakedly dystopic messaging from a secretive internet video company that collects reams of data from 109 million subscribers (https://www.statista.com/statistics/250934/quarterly-number-of-netflix-streaming-subscribers-worldwide/) — and rarely gives us a peek behind its curtain. I mean, jeez, Netflix is offering tinsel-dusted gruel on its platform and mocking people who consume said gruel every single day (for 18 days). As if there's a "correct" way to watch a mildly uplifting Christmas movie in an era when death by nuclear hellfire seems more assured with each passing second. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/11/netflix-a-christmas-prince-tweet-privacy/)
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Netflix watches you, too.
The streaming service sent what it probablythought was an innocuous-enough tweet (http://mashable.com/2017/12/11/netflix-trolling-users-a-christmas-prince/) Sunday night, ribbing a few dozen of its users for partaking in a holiday-inspired B-movie binge. ***
To the 53 people who've watched A Christmas Prince every day for the past 18 days: Who hurt you?
— Netflix US (@netflix) December 11, 2017 (https://twitter.com/netflix/status/940051734650503168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
We reached out to a Netflix rep, who confirmed the tweet is accurate: 53 people have watched A Christmas Prince every day for 18 days. Imagine being one of them right now.
This is nakedly dystopic messaging from a secretive internet video company that collects reams of data from 109 million subscribers (https://www.statista.com/statistics/250934/quarterly-number-of-netflix-streaming-subscribers-worldwide/) — and rarely gives us a peek behind its curtain. I mean, jeez, Netflix is offering tinsel-dusted gruel on its platform and mocking people who consume said gruel every single day (for 18 days). As if there's a "correct" way to watch a mildly uplifting Christmas movie in an era when death by nuclear hellfire seems more assured with each passing second. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/11/netflix-a-christmas-prince-tweet-privacy/)
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