From the article:

“According to an analysis released Friday by the television analytics company Antenna, the streaming giant posted four of its best days of U.S. acquisition ever with nearly 100,000 daily sign-ups on May 26 and May 27, a few days after it started to curb password sharing. It netted 73,000 new daily sign-ups on average after the crackdown, marking a 102 percent increase over the prior 60-day average. The ratio of sign-ups to cancels also increased, Antenna found, indicating that new subscriptions outpaced cancellations.

Emphasis mine

  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Only goes to show these crackdowns, which are criticized by power users, work out against the normal population

  • semibreve42@lemmy.dupper.netOP
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    1 year ago

    P.S - I have a subscription to WaPo that allows me to “gift” ten articles a month. I’m curious if the gift URL I used only allows one or a few people to access it, or if it opens the article up to everyone that uses the link.

    Can a few people comment to tell me if that link bypassed the paywall to the article for them?

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      1 year ago

      I was able to read the whole thing, so seems to be working! I also had the ‘you were gifted this article by a Post subscriber’ message at the bottom

      In case it winds up paywalled for others: https://archive.md/qwwBa

      Disappointing to hear of the success, but not entirely unsurprising. I imagine it’s a matter of time before all the other streaming giants follow the same path