A few months ago Netflix announced its intention to start charging additional fees for account sharing to your subscribers. Now, the streaming service is available in several countries, specifically five regions: Argentina, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala and Hondurasan extra payment for their users to log in outside the home to prevent them from sharing the password with those who don’t pay for the service.
It will be from August 22, when testing will begin in these five countries where the test will charge. additional fees to subscribers who log on outside of the home and connect to a television.
This system, which will be called ‘Netflix Homes’, will charge its subscribers an additional fee if they use an account on a device connected to a television outside the home. Those interested in this extension will have to pay Additional $2.99 per month for each extra household 219 pesos (1.68 euros) for the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras and for Argentina.
Also, Netflix charges this fee only when users decide to add an additional home to their platform account and it doesn’t do this automatically. “As of August 22, 2022, we will ask if you would like to add homes for an additional monthly fee to use your Netflix account in additional homes”, which can be read in the Help Center corresponding to Honduras. , one of the countries where the test will be carried out. In other words, in countries where the ‘Neflix Homes’ application is implemented, users who view content “on the go” from their laptops or mobile phones will not be charged any additional fees.
However, the policy changes when the device on which the platform content is displayed is a television. In this case, the company reported that users will be able to connect to Netflix from these computers or connect from their mobile phone to the TV for a maximum of two weeks.
it will be possible unless you’ve already logged into that location and can only be done once per location per year. Therefore, if a user uses his account on a TV outside of his usual home for more than two weeks, he will have to pay an additional fee.
Registration of additional residences It will depend on the type of rate which users are subscribed to. So those with the Basic plan will be able to add up to two extra homes on the Standard plan and up to three on the Premium plan.
Netflix states that it can detect households where a user has logged into their account and commented using information such as IP addresses, device IDs, and activity in that profile.