They've lost one potential customer already, by forcing the 1 month free trial onto facebook users only.
Edit: thanks for the down votes! But in my defence, the site is broken in Chrome which is why I was unable to see an email only link.
Edit: thanks for the down votes! But in my defence, the site is broken in Chrome which is why I was unable to see an email only link.
"Signing up using Facebook will give Netflix access to your basic Facebook information, including your name, profile picture, gender, user ID, networks, friends list, likes and interests. Unless you choose not to share a particular film or TV programme (using the "unshare" feature available on most devices), Netflix will automatically share everything you have watched, and other Netflix activity, with your Facebook friends, both on Facebook and on Netflix. Netflix may personalise or otherwise enhance your experience based on your Facebook information. Your friends and others who have access to view information about you on Facebook will be able to see that you’re a Netflix member as well as what you’ve watched, rated, added to your Queue, and other information about your use of the Netflix service. You’ll also be able to see similar information from your Facebook friends who are connected with Netflix. You can hide a film or TV programme during playback on most devices using the playback controls while instantly watching the film or TV programme. You can also "unshare" by visiting a film or TV programme's details page on the Netflix website. You can always disconnect Facebook at any time in the Preferences section located under the "Your Account" link. "
I've got an adblock for all Facebook rubbish, and the signup without Facebook link is part of the Facebook item being blocked.
Also, if you have noscript enabled, then you won't see the non-Facebook form either.
I have signed up, by using Chrome Dev Tools to go into the HTML and find the <div id="email_registration"> form, changing the visibility from none to block, and then starting the process from there.
Now, I realise... the fact that I've purged Facebook from my view of the internet is partly to blame, but I bet I'm not the only one on HN to have done this.
On the phone call I did say, they really need to give non-Facebook signup equal prominence to the Facebook signup. I've mentioned the GP too, in that I'm not the only one who was deterred by the Facebook only signup.
Reasons:
* Worst catalogue I've seen in a while, especially foreign films
* Facebook recommends at the top of the page - my word, there is some seriously bad taste out there
* Site barely works in Chrome
* Occasionally stumble upon some page that integrates with Facebook and hangs as I block Facebook everywhere
Bad experience throughout, might give it another chance in 6 months time but it seems unlikely right now.
I figure we're at the point on the web where Javascript et al would be expected in your browser, but even if you don't sign up for that belief, at the very least you should understand you're part of a small minority and sometimes have to make concessions.
"Now, I realise... the fact that I've purged Facebook from my view of the internet is partly to blame, but I bet I'm not the only one on HN to have done this."
Still, if you happen to not have a Facebook account or don't want to associate yours in any way, good luck!
A browser cannot always recuperate when JavaScript fails to arrive - what should it do at that point? A recent example: the outage of googleapis.com CDN caused problems on many sites using JavaScript hosted there all because OpenDNS blacklisted the domain as a phishing domain.
* http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/010612_Thousands_of_...
There are more reasons JavaScript indirectly failing in a browser: http://christianheilmann.com/2011/12/06/that-javascript-not-...
So generally, it makes sense for a site not to depend on JavaScript for a core basic experience.
Well, that's just bad planning on the part of people that are relying on a third party service for a core feature. Always have a backup for remote CDNs.
If you've done that, non-JS functionality is a tiny, tiny edge case. In an ideal world we would all handle it, but I just don't think it's realistic to expect developers to set the time aside for it.