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Privacy leakage via Netflix...

wtf?

Someone in my apartment building has been stealing our Netflix videos (the videos don't fit in our mail slots and are placed outside of our locked mailboxes). If they just borrowed them for a day or so to watch them and then returned them (or even sent them back) I wouldn't be so irked. However, it appears they keep them or throw them away... which of these, I don't know.

Other people's Netflix DVDs aren't stolen (or thrown away) with such consistency. Either someone really likes our taste in movies and steals them or they hate our taste and throw them away (or think that the Netflix videos are trash like the freakin' AOL CDs we get constantly at the apartment complex).

We've had to explain to Netflix on a few occasions that we aren't pulling their legs and that these things are disappearing and are either stolen or lost. Regardless, someone is likely getting a strange piece of insight into what we watch. Here is the list of movies that have disappeared... granted, not all I'm proud to report: