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By hacking into such an account, you can subscribe to a third-party account. This scam works because an increase of a few dollars per month often goes unnoticed by a family who has subscribed to telephone and the Internet with the same provider.
When an account is hacked, you should contact Netflix. If you can still access the account, in Settings, the option "Disconnect all devices" lets you disconnect all devices currently using the account. Then simply change the password. Additionally, you should change your passwords for all other online accounts. Finally, Netflix provides tips for users who receive suspicious emails regarding their service here.
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Today was a rainy day in San Francisco and at 6pm I was nowhere near any reasonable public transportation option that could get me home within the hour. As any savvy millennial would, I immediately turned to my friendly ride sharing apps: Uber & Lyft. UberPool and Lyft Line were obviously the cheaper options, but after months of receiving promotions from Uber promising me flat fare rides for $7 and 40% off all my rides for the week I had gotten used to riding without fellow passengers.
There is nothing more annoying than being minutes from home and getting that push notification which makes your head burst: "A passenger has been added to your ride". The realization of how much disdain I can hold for a perfectly normal fellow stranger is a little scary. Am I the only one that secretly glares at my fellow Line passenger when they open the door?
Discounted UberX rides had become my gateway drug and there was no going back to pooling for me now -- props to the user research & marketing team at Uber for this. Any how, I digress. Back to the main story here:
Since Uber did not send me a 40% off promotion this week I decided I had no loyalty and checked both Uber and Lyft for the cheapest ride; Lyft won out by $7 along with the kicker that I get 1 Delta SkyMile per dollar spent (I am a sucker for loyalty points as some of my coworkers may tell you).
As soon as I got into the car, I chatted up my driver with a casual: "Rain must be good for business, huh?" thinking the conversation would quickly burn out and I could turn to reading the latest from ThePointsGuy to pass time.
The short answer he gave me is no, it is not. But that wasn't all, before I knew it I was involved in a 30 minute crash course on the economics of ride sharing and how you can beat the system. I was so impressed and amazed about what I learned that by the time I got home I knew I had to share it with the world.
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About 20 minutes in I had the gall to ask my driver how much he made a year driving for both Lyft and Uber. He cooly responded about $3,200 - $3,500 a week and then pointed to his shiny Rolex that made for a hilarious contrast with his black, fingerless driving gloves (these gloves looked more like weightlifting gloves than the suave Ryan Gosling ones in Drive). I quickly ran some mental math and figured out this guy makes >$150,000/year, more than the average tech worker in this city known for inflated salaries and an exorbitant cost of living. I was shocked given the most recent research coming out of MIT stating drivers for Lyft and Uber barely make a living wage. No doubt this guy is an outlier, but here is how he does it:
My driver said that in the beginning of the week he optimizes for headcount by driving Lyft Line / Uber Pool routes between 7am-10am. He hacks the system by setting East Bay Bart stations as his home destination -- a feature meant to get drivers home at the end of a long day. By doing so he jumps to the head of the queue and collects folks on their morning commute to the Bart station who almost solely use Line or Pool. He says he can average 3 people per ride which adds to his total headcount to hit a bonus. If my memory serves me right he said that Uber's bonus requires 75 headcount between Monday - Thursday, while Lyft requires 135 during the entire week.
He doesn't mind the fact that he doesn't make a lot of $$$ on these rides because he is purely going for the bonus and headcount is the objective function in that game. His system hack is the fact that he never turns off his app when he arrives at the East Bay Bart station he had set his pin at; instead, he just drives straight back to where he was and the system still optimizes to get him back to the Bart because it never thinks he got home. Over the course of three hours he says he can pick up an average of 25 people -- clearly, this man flies through his bonus quotas!
Once he has squeezed all the juice out of the morning commute folks he says he heads straight to the airport cellphone lot and switches on his apps to solely look for Uber Select or Lyft Premium rides. When I asked him about the endless doldrums of wait he presumably faced waiting for upscale riders he responded by saying that he gladly waits hours for a ride to come his way and in the mean time watches Netflix on his humongous iPad Pro.
Sooner or later, he told me, "A business traveler abusing their expense budget will always call for a premium ride...They don't care about the money since their company pays for it all." These rides can easily collect him over $100 per 30 minute ride and even more if he scores a lucky ride to Sacramento or Santa Cruz.
He told me he has A/B tested optimizing solely for standard rides (UberX and regular Lyft) and optimizing for premium passengers and found that, in the long run, longer wait times are made up by the increased price per ride premium riders pay.
The first part of this hack, my driver explained, is the fact that drivers make the most money when users don't input a final destination. When this happens Uber / Lyft have no way of pre-calculating the fare and instead calculate on the go and take a flat 25% (depending on the company) cut of the final price paid. I learned that when the fare is pre-calculated driver's make closer to 60% of the fare paid. He proved this to me by showing me a fare he had taken earlier in the day where the customer paid $130 and he only made $75 of that cut. Apparently, Uber's driver interface makes this extremely transparent to drivers showing the exact amount drivers make and the amount Uber makes. Lyft, according to my driver, "hides breakdowns" which is something he does not appreciate and made him like driving for Uber more. Kudos, Uber.
The second part was the one that had me gasping at the fact that this guy was a genius. He told me that Uber sends out promotions to riders who don't use their services (I was one of them!) and sometimes these promotions can go up to 75% off the entire price of a ride. When that happens to one of his friends or family he says he gets them to use it for his own evil genius purposes.
He told me his sister-in-law recently got a 75% discount off her next ride and told him about it. So he went ahead and told her to order an Uber Select and not input a destination while he made sure he was in the neighborhood when it happened. As fate would have it, he got the ride assigned to him. Before departing, he packed his family in the back along with their snowboards and luggage and, then, just started driving.
This will install around 254MB of packages, mainly it will install wine-compholio (a custom version of wine that is able to run Silverlight) and dependencies. If wine is not installed already you may need to agree to use Microsoft fonts (in the text mode window use arrow keys or tab to reach the red "ok" button in text mode when it appears). The download/installation takes around 15 minutes.
If something went wrong in the installation (third party links are involved), don't panic: netflix-desktop will detect that something is missing and try to reinstall it, if that also fails, start over.
The window will open in fullscreen, which is very elegant, but if you want to have control over the window press F11 right away to exit fullscreen mode. (It may also ask to install a Firefox extension --specially designed-- that makes fullscreen mode more friendly.)
Credits and references: This information was originally taken from -to-use-netflix-in-ubuntu-through.html. Although this is a result of a campaign initiated by www.iheartubuntu.com in -on-linux-contest.html, resulting in this achievement -for-netflix-desktop-app.html (by Erich Hoover) which also contains a link for donations to support the development. There is also -desktop
Bonus: By running this you have a fully functional Firefox 17 (Windows version) with working Silverlight that can be used to navigate other sites, by pressing F10 -> View -> Toolbars -> Navigation menu on the main window you can access any site and be able to use Silverlight.
If you don't like the appearance of the scroll bars, you can enable Chrome's overlay scrollbars. Go to chrome://flags/#overlay-scrollbars and Enable them. Now you have scrollbars that complete the experience:
Old chrome versions will block netflix from working, so this is important. You may need to update the user-agent to the latest version (by checking a local install or trying something from -info.net/useragents)Also in the text box, replace the "all_urls" to netflix.com. This will apply the changed user-agent to netflix only
Enter netflix, trying to see a show/movie, firefox will warn that it needs to enable DRM support. Accept and it will download and install the widevine DRM plugin. Wait a minute and reload the page. Sometimes you need to go back and try again, but it will work
I read a while ago that it might be possible to run a Wii emulator instead of virtual box, but I don't think that would be an improvement for most people. I've been meaning to try Netflix in an android emulator since the app came out, however I still need to test if it will actually work. The problem is that the app is only "approved" for certain phones. There is a hack that is suppose to work for rooted phones, So I think there's a good chance this could be a better solution than virtual box, but it's hard to say for sure.
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