Popular streaming site Netflix has started its crackdown on people sharing passwords with those outside their household. Anyone wanting to use an account from a different place is being told they have to pay an extra £4.99 per person in the UK.
The change will have an impact on many families - some of which will have children who have moved away to live at university still using the family accounts - or will have got new homes. Netflix has begun sending emails to customers in the UK about sharing between households.
However some of the other streaming giants are aiming to take advantage of the change by luring new customers driven away by the crackdown. Ironically Netflix previously said it was comfortable with users sharing their passwords, with the company making a joke on Twitter in 2017 that said: “Love is sharing a password”.
