Netflix admitted Thursday to throttling video streams worldwide for its mobile users, but said it hasn’t been an issue for customers.
The video streaming company plans to roll out to its members sometime in May a ‘data saver’ feature, allowing them greater control over their data usage when streaming on mobile networks.
Users will then be able to “either stream more video under a smaller data plan, or increase their video quality if they have a higher data plan,” wrote Anne Marie Squeo, a spokeswoman for the company, in a blog post.
Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3048203/consumer-electronics/admitting-to-throttling-video-netflix-now-promises-more-control-for-users.html
Post made by Netflix: https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/helping-netflix-members-get-more-from-their-mobile-data-plans
>>34114
Y'know, usually companies would refrain from doing this, and just let customers pay overage fees for going over their data caps, while keeping streaming unthrottled, yet here we have Netflix doing precisely that.
Perhaps Netflix wants to get people used to throttled streaming as a way to get around net neutrality?
fuck netflix
>>34114
After they blocked VPNs the company signed its own death certificate.
As someone who works in the phone support for Netflix, I can say it is well and truly fucked. Vpn blocking that blocks non-vpn users by whole ip ranges, double billing, etc.
Yes, they were throttling cellular data usage after thousands of you dipshits called us complaining that Netflix burned through your data plan on two days.
Seriously, though. It's dying. Vto for everyone.