The days of sharing your Netflix password with friends and family who don’t live with you are slowly coming to an end. The streaming giant announced it will begin changing an “extra home” fee for those using the same account who don’t live together.
The small fee (around $2-3) will go into effect on August 22th in Argentina, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, the company said. While not much was done to enforce these sharing fees earlier in the year when Netflix tested the idea, now your TV will be blocked if you don’t pay up.
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“If your Netflix account is being used on a TV outside of your home, you will need to pay an extra $2.99 per month for each extra home. You will only be charged when you or someone who uses your account chooses to add an extra home—this fee will NOT be automatically charged,” Netflix wrote on their Honduras site showing the new pricing.
@netflix Extra home fee? Continuously raising prices because you're losing subs because you cancel all of the shows that draw audiences while adding troves of trash?
— irishbronco (@irishbronco) July 24, 2022
Did you get bought out or taken over by idiots?
After this country-specific trial period, Netflix will roll out this extra home fee worldwide. If you are a Netflix customer, you will have the option of adding one, two, or three extra homes and will pay accordingly from $9.99 to $19.99 here in the U.S. For those annoyed this change will mean you can’t log in while on vacation because it’s a new “home,” Netflix has you covered. You’ll have a two-week window where you’ll be able to use your account at no extra charge. The kicker is it only counts if you haven’t used that location before. Unfortunately for people who use the same place to vacation every year like, say, a family cabin, you’re out of luck.
Netflix is testing a new password sharing plan where they will charge an extra $3 for more additional homes.
— Moe (@moneyacademyKE) July 18, 2022
It has started the test in Latin America.
“We’ve always made it easy for people who live together to share their Netflix account, with features like separate profiles and multiple streams in our Standard and Premium plans,” Netflix said earlier this year. “While these have been hugely popular, they have also created some confusion about when and how Netflix can be shared. As a result, accounts are being shared between households — impacting our ability to invest in great new TV and films for our members.”
If you don’t know who uses your Netflix login information because you’ve given it out to friends and family for years, the company said it’s working on a feature that will let you track where your info is being used and allow you to restrict access in the future.
