Carmakers Push Forward With Plans To Make Basic Features Subscription Services, Despite Widespread Backlash

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The only backlash they listen to is the one to their wallets. Remember Netflix password crackdown backlash?

The backlash where Netflix's profit went up and it was generally a success and Netflix didn't change anything at all...?

Or was there another one I missed? Or am I confused?

That's exactly my point. All this 'widespread backlash' doesn't amount to anything unless it hurts their bottom line. There was a huge backlash when netflix introduced password sharing crackdown, but it ended up a success for them.

Oh, I didn't get what you meant I guess because people kept saying they were cancelling their accounts, I didn't think of it as a non-action backlash.

There, of course, weren't really that many people upset or cancelling

It felt like there were a lot of us who cancelled, but clearly not enough

How do you know that? Who told you? Remember it pays to lie.

I cancelled. 👍

Great, but what I was pointing out is we were told that it had very little effect by Netflix themselves.

Oh yeah, let's see what happens when Netflix is $50 a month 👍

Sounds like we need to get the ELF and the RTR folks on a conference call.