How many people are logged into your Netflix account? Do they all live in your home, your town, your state? Do you even know everyone who has access?
That may all change soon.
Netflix is testing a new policy on some accounts that tells the account leaches to sign up for their own account.
A message comes up that says, “If you don’t live with the owner of this account, you need your own account to keep watching,” NBC News reported.
It will also have the user verify their access by either using a text or email sent to the account holder, CNN reported.
News of the account warning was first reported by The Streamable.
Testing isn’t new for the streaming company.
A Netflix spokesperson told NBC News that the company will try “hundreds” of tests each year and that this may not lead to shared accounts being banned.
“This test is designed to help ensure that people using Netflix accounts are authorized to do so,” the company said in a statement to multiple media outlets.
It is estimated that 33% of Netflix users share their accounts with at least one other person.
Costs for the streaming service begin at $8.99 a month.
Netflix has more than 200 million subscribers.
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