The ax fell. Since Tuesday, it has been impossible to share your Netflix account with people “outside of [son foyer] », announced the American giant. After Canada, New Zealand and Portugal, this measure now takes effect in more than a hundred countries, including France and the United States. “More than 100 million households share their account, which affects our ability to invest in major films and television series”, explained the platform in a press release last February, reports AFP.
Concretely, you will no longer be able to scrape your friends’ passwords (and vice versa) in order to connect to their profile and take advantage of their subscription. And if you try anyway (we know you will), the connection will fail and the person holding the account will receive an email with a little reminder: “Your Netflix account is for you and for the people who live with you, that is to say your home. So, how to do ?
“Profile transfer” and adding subscribers
Impossible to cheat Netflix which, thanks to information such as the IP address or the identifier of your device, will thwart your attempts and will immediately understand that you do not live under the same roof as the holder of the subscription.
For those who previously squatted on other people’s passwords, two solutions are available to you. The first is that of “profile transfer”. If you had a profile on an account that did not belong to you, Netflix offers to transfer it to your own account, by paying for your own subscription. Finally, for lovers of sharing, the platform also offers the possibility for the main user to “add an additional subscriber” for 5.99 euros per month.
What will happen if you have subscribed to a subscription but want to connect to the platform outside your home? Do not panic, you will not be assigned to residence to finish your seasons of The Agency or of New school. As was already the case before, the platform will track whether or not you are connected to your own account via a “trusted device” (your laptop or smartphone, for example).
And you, how are you going to manage this end of account sharing? Will this deterrent persuade you to take out your own subscription? Will you join this new paid sharing? Or on the contrary, do you risk turning your back on the platform definitively to look elsewhere? Tell us.