I knew that Netflix would someday get strict about password sharing. It was so easy, we took it for granted. Anybody who knew someone with Netflix essentially had Netflix themselves. But the latest crackdown on passwords isn’t just restrictive against account thieves. It also hurts people with a complicated and changing definition of what it means to be a household, including single parents like me.
Recently using Netflix, a couple of days ago, I was told that I was now a household. The app gave me some lingo about new restrictions, but these were not specific in any clear way. From what I can gather, a household is the location where your TV sits. The TV part is important because that is how the household takes root in Netflix’s idea of a family tree.
