If you want to grab a drink at a friend’s house (which happens to be your streaming service provider), Netflix can make it easy for you. In order to share accounts, so is sharing passwords with your friends. To overcome this “prohibition”, Netflix recommends going through the box, charging 5.99 euros per month for any additional subscriber away from home.
However, this addition has limits: the additional subscriber can only create a profile and watch shows on one screen. It is also prohibited to be located in a different country than the one in which the account is held.
Connect to Wi-Fi once a month
To control access to the Netflix account by a single household, the platform identifies the devices that connect to the main Wi-Fi network associated with this household. It then leaves the possibility for these devices to use the Netflix account for a period – not officially specified – that oscillates around a month, before they are forced to reconnect to the home Wi-Fi account.
Dans les faits, share Netflix with a friend or a member of your family regularly invited in the foyer is technically possible, well that Netflix rappelle à Tech&Co qu’un compte “est destiné à être partagé par des personnes qui vivent dans un même home”.
However, some of the users should pay for an “additional subscriber” account, which could allow Netflix to make up for its loss of subscribers in recent months. However, this is still a double-edged sword: in Spain, where the paid account sharing rule has been active since April, more than a million Spaniards have fled the platform.
But the company claims in any case that it had no choice but to change the rules. The company estimated in 2022 that more than 100 million households used its services without paying.
Source: BFM TV
