Here are Netflix's password-sharing rules
If you aren’t in one of these regions you may find you’re able to share your Netflix password with people from outside your Household without much trouble, but we expect it won’t be long before you’re forced to stop free-loading. Right now, we don’t actually know exactly how Netflix will go about detecting and stopping password sharers. All we have to go on is previously available information that it has since removed from its official FAQ.
“A Netflix account is meant to be shared in one household . People who are not in your household will need to sign up for their own account to watch Netflix.” In countries where you can pay for extra members – like Canada – you’ll find details for how that works, but that’s the only extra info you get.
When we reached out to Netflix to find out why the most recent changes were made to the FAQ it told us that the help center was too confusing before, so the information on it has been simplified. The information was certainly confusing – especially when it changed for about a day before the info reverted back to what it used to be – but it’s not all that helpful for the exact rules to be hidden.
We, therefore, suspect part of this change is also an effort to obscure the rules to keep people from finding ways to circumvent them. Under the email verification method, users would just need to set up a shared email account; while under the ‘use a specific Wi-Fi connection every 31 days’ method you’d just need to make sure to visit the account’s primary location regularly – if you live nearby that wouldn’t be a tough ask.
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