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Carrie Marshall

Netflix extends its password crackdown plan to Sky users, and it's very confusing

An image of a home with five devices showing the Netflix logo on them.

Netflix's password sharing crackdown reached the UK this summer, but one group of subscribers have been exempt: Sky, BT, TalkTalk, and Virgin Media customers who get Netflix as part of their subscription bundle. However, that appears to be changing, and it's all rather complicated.

As Cordbusters reports, some Sky subscribers have finally started getting the dreaded notification on their TVs about Netflix's clampdown on account sharing. Users have noticed that Sky has begun to ask them to "confirm this TV is in your Netflix household", and the British broadcaster has taken to X (formerly Twitter) to help customers with the perplexing issue.

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