Netflixusers be warned: the streamer has officially begun cracking down on password sharing in the U.S.
As of Tuesday, Netflix is charging accounts an extra $7.99 per month if they plan to share access with out-of-household viewers. The streaming platform announced the change in ablog post, explaining how they “will be sending this email to members who are sharing Netflix outside their household in the United States.”
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If the account owner wants to keep extra people on board, specifically those who don’t live in the Netflix household, they can “buy an extra member” for “$7.99 per month or more,” according to the email Netflix sent account holders.
Netflix’s standard monthly package is $15.49, which means adding one extra user results in a near-50 percent increase in the monthly subscription cost. There’s also Netflix’s ad tier coming in at $6.99 per month — and adding one new user costs more than that subscription alone.
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The membership changes are a long time coming. Netflix first announced its plan to crack down on shared profiles last year when introducing atest run of the conceptin international locations.
source: people.com
