The North American company begins a stage of uncertainty due to a measure that could be a turning point.
It has already happened. As if it were a bank notice to a person who has not paid their mortgage repeatedly, Netflix is already willing to seize the accounts of users who do not religiously pay their fee at the end of the month. In a recent statement on the official Netflix website, ironically titled ‘New ways to share Netflix’, the streaming platform explains its version of what it is to have shared accounts. Spoiler: there will be controversy for days.
netflix ensures in his statement that those who live under the same roof have always had an easy time sharing an account, more to go, but that there is a confusion in users about that conceptwhich seems strange to them and which is known as share. The irony is that, as you can see in the tweet that we show you below these lines, Netflix already invited to do it in the past. However, as of today, the company North American will end shared accounts in Canada, Spain, New Zealand and Portugal.
“We know there is a lot of confusion about how to share Netflix”
The confusion: pic.twitter.com/gAPG3YEtRP
— Samu Guerra (@ElSamuGuerra) February 8, 2023
According to the streaming company, now subscribers will have greater control over who accesses their account. To do this, the platform affirms that its latest measures have facilitated the transition for those people who wanted to disassociate themselves from a main account, such as the profile transfer. As of today, at least in our country, if a family account wants to add people from outside the home usual, they will have to pay €5.99 per month per extra user, in a maximum of two users additional. Although it does not specify it, we understand that the charge will be made to those who are added to the main account.
To summarize the changes that come to us, as you can read in the table published by Netflix on its website, the two basic plansthe plan with Netflix ads and the one without them, no can add extra users. will be the standard and premium plansthe most expensive, whatever they have This possibility, and only the last of them, which costs a whopping 17.99 euros per month, will be the one that allows two additional users. Are we facing a master move by Netflix or the beginning of the end of its dominance among streaming platforms?