First we ran out of your free trial month and now the end of shared accounts on Netflix is imminent. Although we already knew that this moment would come, there were doubts about what exactly the process would be like on the part of the streaming platform. And it is that in the section of Frequent questions We already have information available about the requirements to allow shared accounts.
More than 60% of Netflix users share an account and the platform has set itself the goal for 2023 to intensify efforts to end them. Thus, in the section on Frequent questions of the web we can already find an update of information regarding the measures that They will enter into force before the end of this first quarter.
Netflix explains, first of all, that sharing is not prohibited for cohabitants. This means that people who live together in the same household can share an account. However, the requirement to verify this is somewhat bizarre, and it is that They ask us to connect and play content over WiFi at least once every 31 days.
This is Netflix’s way of constantly verifying that devices are connected to the same IP address. The company calls the device that determines that address a “trusted device”. The question that arises then is what will happen if we are traveling or want to connect from a different location to the main
In these cases, Netflix indicates that we will be able to continue connecting but that, in case of being away from our main location for a long time, playback will be blocked. To resume it, they will send us a temporary access code. All this without detailing how many days are necessary for Netflix to understand that we are doing something strange for the mere fact of being away from home.
This is a plan with many cracks that does not take into account households in which the IP is dynamic (that is, they change with each router restart), families with more than one house or situations in which the main user may not reside in the household that Netflix determines as primary. Therefore, these measures They worsen the user experience.
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