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The Best Reactions to Netflix Cracking Down on Password Sharing

Updated 2 years ago, January 16, 2024

Netflix is finally cracking down on password sharing, and users are not happy with the new policies.

Netflix is cracking down on password sharing — forcing primary users to add subaccounts if they wish to continue sharing their access to the streaming platform with those outside their household. The catch: you can only add one with a basic subscription and two with a premium one, and they cost an additional $7.99 / month! Let’s just say this seems like the most consumer-aggravating way to squeeze extra money out of users — in a last-ditch effort to improve profit margins. And well…Netflix subscribers aren’t happy. Some are even bidding the streaming giant a bitter farewell.

Did you think through all scenarios, Netflix?

Ahhh. Its finally happening in the US. @netflix is cracking down on Password sharing. Time to #CancelNetflix. This is stupid btw cause I'm in a hospital and not at home with my family that I share Netflix with. pic.twitter.com/LEJRYYpDGo

— The_Legendary_Quarintined_Potato (@LegendarySuper7) May 26, 2023

Can someone or @netflix explain how this new policy works when one partner travels outside of the home? When families go to vacation homes? When children go away to grandparents houses for the summer?

Did anyone think this through it all?https://t.co/fyHezGQtjG

— Casey (she/her) (@MamaSissieSays) May 25, 2023

They’re just not getting it…

Netflix: we are going to start charging people for sharing passwords

Us: fine we just gonna cancel our subscriptions then

Netflix:that was a mistake we aren’t going to do that

(1 year later)

Netflix: we are going to start charging people for sharing passwords

Us: pic.twitter.com/7BEYc6pS0V

— hennyhulk (@snapIN2aSLlMJIM) May 25, 2023

We’re not advocating illicit activity (but others are)

https://twitter.com/BatwoMANDA/status/1662146113858838531

When NETFLIX updated their password sharing policy#comedy #skit #foryou #Netflix #netflixandchill pic.twitter.com/oPPyN9nCqt

— CoreyDew (@BlitzComet888) June 1, 2023

Netflix starts charging $8 for sharing passwords:

Millennials who grew up on Limewire, Napster and Pirate Bay: pic.twitter.com/glPCC19ObL

— CCW license – 46 states (@skinny_que) May 25, 2023

That’s it. We’re through.

Later, @netflix! I'm not paying your $8 ransom for password sharing. You could have handled this so much better. It was a fun 10 years, but I'm done. It's not me, it's you.#netflixpassword pic.twitter.com/PRyhgePjxJ

— VAN (@RightHandVAN) May 26, 2023

Netflix trying to end password sharing and therefore losing subscriptions via people cancelling. pic.twitter.com/EWAwtBJS9U

— Vaquero Sucio🌹 (@MrBirdBot) May 26, 2023