Popular video streaming company Netflix will start 2023 with a crackdown to stop account password sharing.
Recently the Wall Street Journal has reported that Netflix will introduce measures to stop account sharing in the United States in early 2023 which will later be extended worldwide.
In August 2022 as well the company had launched a test in five Latin American countries in which password-sharers from others were asked to pay a fee for each additional home.
At that time the company had said that if a user’s account was used for more than two weeks in different places outside his residence then the company will ask to pay an additional fee.
Netflix also introduced the feature of transferring profiles between accounts which was also aimed at the same.
According to the Wall Street Journal report the additional fee charged from a password-sharing account in the US could be a little less than $7. The company has expected that in the way people who use other people’s accounts will become users of this service themselves.
The crackdown has not yet been officially announced by the company because it also fears that many customers may leave the service. According to the company 100 million people around the world use this service free of charge through their friends’ accounts.
