
Netflix is about to kick your best friend off your account unless you pay to share your account. On Tuesday Netflix revealed the details of how the crackdown on password sharing will affect viewers in the US and how much it will cost to keep extra people on your account.
If you’re on the Netflix Standard plan which costs $15.49 per month, then you have the option of adding an additional member who can use the service outside of your household for an additional $7.99 per month. Anyone who pays for the Netflix Premium package with 4K streaming will have the option to add up to two additional members, but each will still cost $7.99. The US is also not the only country where the new rules are being rolled out Netflix in the UK charges subscribers £4.99 per month for additional member slots.
Netflix subscribers on the two cheapest plans (Basic or Standard with Ads, which cost $9.99 and $6.99 per month respectively) don’t have the option to add additional members to their account at all.
Netflix subscribers in the US who share the service “outside their household” will receive an email about the company’s password-sharing policy starting Tuesday, according to the blog post.

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Netflix’s paid password-sharing experiments have been going on for a while, and it expanded its testing to Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain in February. The crackdown on password sharing was originally supposed to take place in the US early this year, but the company postponed that launch back in April.
a support page explaining the new configuration describes “additional members” as someone who has their own password and profile, paid for by the person who “invited” them to join. Additional member accounts also have their own limitations. They must be activated in the same country, they can only view or download content on one device at a time, and they cannot create additional profiles or log in as a Kids profile.
Your Netflix Household, according to the company, is set based on where you watch Netflix on a TV and what IP address that device uses. That location can be reset using the app on a TV or TV-connected device by choosing to confirm or update your household and responding to a verification link sent to the account’s listed email address or phone number. is sent.
We use information such as IP addresses, device IDs, and account activity to determine if a device logged into your account is part of your Netflix household.
We do not collect GPS data to attempt to determine the exact physical location of your devices.
If you don’t have a Netflix household set up, we’ll automatically set one up for you based on IP address, device IDs, and account activity.
You can always update your Netflix household from a TV by connecting to the internet and following the steps above.
Netflix used to be very pro password sharing – in March 2017 it famously tweeted, “Love is password sharing.” (That tweet, as of this writing, still stands.) But in early 2022, it began testing ways to end the practice and charge people for accounts using Netflix outside of the account owner’s household.

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In April 2022, the company revealed it was losing subscribers for the first time in over a decade, saying at the time that more than 100 million households were getting Netflix through password sharing.
While it has tried to reverse its subscriber growth, the crackdown on password sharing is just one of many levers the company has pulled. It also introduced an advertising plan, which has nearly 5 million active users worldwide and invested heavily in games as a perk for subscribers.
Update May 23, 7:24 PM ET: Added UK prices.
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