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Matt Wille

Netflix's password-sharing crackdown has already begun

Netflix is officially adding an option to extend your subscription to streamers outside your home, and users in some regions will be able to try it out as soon as next month. The new “add a home” feature will soon be available in Argentina, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, Netflix announced this week, an expansion of the “add an extra member” option tested in Peru, Chile, and Costa Rica earlier this year.

“It’s great that our members love Netflix movies and TV shows so much they want to share them more broadly,” Chengyi Long, Netflix’s director of product innovation, wrote in the feature announcement. “But today’s widespread account sharing between households undermines our long term ability to invest and improve our service.” The shade!

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