Netflix Changes Its Mind, Will Keep Profiles

Courtesy Techdirt  Tue, 07/01/2008 - 05:17

A few weeks back, we were one of many who questioned Netflix's decision to take away its "profiles" feature, that allows a single account holder to have separate queues for different people in his or her household.

For the folks who used this feature, it was quite popular, and our main complaint was the bogus language that Netflix used, claiming that removing this feature was somehow a benefit to users.

Obviously, most folks who used that feature regularly thought...

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