{"id":22784,"date":"2023-04-19T03:10:32","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T03:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1f3a6eda-f258-409a-b5f6-8a8d8beac52d12"},"modified":"2023-04-19T03:10:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T03:10:32","slug":"netflix-is-about-to-crack-down-on-account-sharing-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/netflix-is-about-to-crack-down-on-account-sharing-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix is about to crack down on account sharing in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/netflix-is-about-to-crack-down-on-account-sharing-in-the-us.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Netflix is about to bring its fight against account sharing to the US. \u201cIn Q1, we launched paid sharing in four countries and are pleased with the results,\u201d the company wrote in its Q1 <span class=\"waslinkname\"><ins>letter to shareholders<\/ins><\/span>. \u201cWe are planning on a broad rollout, including in the US, in Q2.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"waslinkname\"><ins>Since February<\/ins><\/span>, Netflix has offered paid account sharing in Canada, New Zealand, Portugal and Spain. The add-on allows primary account holders to pay an additional fee every month to share their Netflix service with up to two people outside of their household. As the main owner of an account, you can still watch on your phone and sign into the service on a device outside your home, like a smart TV at a hotel. Netflix also allows secondary users to convert their profiles into new accounts.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"end-legacy-contents\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Netflix account is meant to be shared in one household (people who live in the same location with the account owner),\u201d the company says on a <span class=\"waslinkname\"><ins>support page<\/ins><\/span>. \u201cPeople who are not in your household will need to sign up for their own account to watch Netflix.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the past, Netflix has estimated more than 100 million non-paying households have access to its service through free account sharing. The company says the practice limits its ability to invest in new content. It\u2019s also aware the decision to restrict account sharing is likely to lead to cancelations. The expansion of paid account sharing comes on the same day Netflix said it would <span class=\"waslinkname\"><ins>sunset its DVD rental business<\/ins><\/span> in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix is about to bring its fight against account sharing to the US. \u201cIn Q1, we launched paid sharing in four countries and are pleased with the results,\u201d the company wrote in its Q1 letter to shareholders. \u201cWe are planning on a broad rollout, including in the US, in Q2.\u201d Since February, Netflix has offered &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22784"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=22784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}