The controversy is served. The most popular streaming content company in the market has ignored the numerous indications from its analysts about limiting the possibility of account sharing. Throughout the year 2022, as the stratospheric user figures that Netflix had been reaping since the confinement deflate, rumors about these limitations have not stopped appearing day in and day out.
Netflix has taken off its mask and warns that it will take measures to limit how users share an account, but don't worry, we'll teach you how to avoid it. In this way, you will be able to continue enjoying Netflix with all your friends and family, without any type of restrictions.
In this sense, Netflix has clarified that a Netflix account is intended only for people who share a household. So that, company to use IP address, device identifiers and viewing history to ensure that only members of the same household share an account and password.
This mechanism is identical to the one that Spotify has been using with its family accounts years ago, and that, on the other hand, has not proven to be very effective, beyond occasional cuts in the service that are quickly restored.
To do this, they will do user checks, asking you to verify the device approximately every 31 days, so you will only have to do the following sporadically to avoid blocking:
- Once a month, the primary user, who resides at the billing address provided for payment, must log in to the other peers' user accounts.
- On televisions, it is recommended to log out and log in again once a month, verifying with the main user to avoid blocking without prior notice.
It is evident that heMobile devices are hardly going to receive any type of blocking, since there are many users who never connect their devices to the Wi-Fi network