Netflix is still trying to get money from your brother's roommate's ex-girlfriend's cousin.
Do you currently use a Netflix account paid for by someone outside of your household? Netflix would really like you to pay for that service and has struggled with how to crack down on password sharing. But the streaming company is testing a new idea that might get some of those freeloaders to pony up. Or, at the very least, get the people who are actually paying for the Netflix subscription to pay a little more.
The company is also testing a new feature that would allow people with an existing profile on the service to transfer that profile—a feature that could theoretically encourage password-sharers to get their own Netflix account. Again, it’s not required, just something Netflix wants you to do out of a sense of obligation.
Netflix is first rolling out the features in Chile, Costa Rica, and Peru, while positioning the streamer’s desire for more money as a way to pay for better shows on the service. And it’s rather graciously saying that password sharing is just a point of “confusion” rather than a way for people to knowingly get the service without paying.
“We’ve always made it easy for people who live together to share their Netflix account, with features like separate profiles and multiple streams in our Standard and Premium plans,” Chengyi Long, director of production innovation at Netflix, said in a blog post on