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After posting it earlier this week, Netflix has now reportedly removed the updated page explaining its new account sharing rules to consumers according to The Streamable. Earlier this week, the streamer’s official Help Center updated its page to reveal new rules to prevent people from using...
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Those new rules now appear to have been removed from the Netflix website as of Wednesday, February 1st in all but a handful of small test markets where they were already in place. The outlet says that according to a Netflix spokesperson, the update is not applicable in the U.S. or some other western countries as yet:

“For a brief time yesterday, a help center article containing information that is only applicable to Chile, Costa Rica, and Peru, went live in other countries. We have since updated it.”
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I'll just cancel it for most of the year and re-sub when there is enough stuff to binge and I have time. Currently we just let it roll all year because my parents use it too. Its already too expensive and adding extra to allow my parents to use it will be the last straw if they go through with this.
 
Such a silly idea, I feel for those that pay for Netflix at home but occasionally do time away and watch Netflix "they pay for" outside of the home say a hotel or something.
This just screams greed to me, you watch they'll have the nerve to increase all the prices soon too.
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They'll start another service option for those that travel a lot and will have to pay more which these up comming changes don't effect that service option.
 
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If I didn't have Netflix included with my Sky subscription, I don't think I'd be subscribed still. The only one I go out of my way to use is Disney+. Prime only gets used very occasionally.
 
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What happens if your IP changes at your home residence then? It's not that unusual for your public IP to change if you reboot your main router or you get an update, or you have a power cut for a short while. Sometimes your lease simply expires and you get a new one. If they are basing it on that, it's going to cause a lot of pain. I would assume they are doing it more on a less strict "range" where in, they can identify groups of IPs that identify your ISP. So could it be that if one was to "share" netflix with a friend on the same ISP (say Sky), you might get away with it?
 
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The amount of analytics they have is probably astounding . There will always be a few outlier cases, but I reckon the cross country sharing will stop pretty quickly. Within country a bit harder.

I know 1 person in Spain who has already received the email. Basically they ask you to pick what is your home location (country/city, no idea). But he's sharing with a person in another country so easy to track via IPs .

The just of the email is pay us 6 more euros a month or get your sharer to create their own account and transfer their profile across.

I'm sure I'll get the email soon, as I share, so will share the text when I get it . Interesting thing, for me, is the sharer won't even know as Netflix can only send the emails to the account holders email address


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Yea but the problem with this is you have to have the time to download and put the content in your share, some people wouldn’t have the time or day to keep adding content all the time.
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With a little bit of initial effort you can automate a lot of it, including the downloads using RSS feeds.
 
I think this will hurt Netflix a lot more than they think. They will lose a lot of people subs and they won't get those back from the "leeches" signing up and paying.

I wonder how many people have Netflix by default and if pushed would cancel.
 
I got the popup today.

Opened the webpage on my laptop (to browse for new content) and it then asked me set my home location via the app on my TV.
Opened the app on my TV and it asked to send an SMS or E-mailed URL to confirm my Primary location.
Clicked the URL from my phone and it immediately added my TV, Laptop and Phone as registered to my primary location, which showed up as "Near Malaga" which I guess is where my ISP's DNS server or other server is.

Now (in the TV App's settings) I can see text that says "All devices connected to this network will be able to watch Netflix on this account at this primary location and while travelling"
Logged in now from my PC's web browser, which wasn't on when I set the primary location, and it logs in fine (as it's on the same LAN as the other devices, I guess)

So in effect, exactly as the leaks. I'm sure if any device that stays away from my home for more than 31 days will be asked to authenticate via SMS/E-mail, so it's just a form of multi-factor authentication.

I imagine the person who is sharing my account, will get some other message popup as they will sign in on a device not on my LAN and also into a different profile. Anyway, doesn't really make a difference to me, but just posting the info as I'm sure the UK implementation will be the same, give or take.


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