San Francisco: Video streaming service provider Netflix has said that it will charge more users who share accounts with people outside the family.
According to TechCrunch, the company began testing the new charge in Chile, Costa Rica and Peru in March but now plans to roll it out globally over the next one year.
Netflix has said that it will take close to a year to test this feature and then be sure what to charge users who share accounts with people outside their family.
The company’s Chief Production Officer Greg Peters said that the company had been working in this direction for the last two years. It was recently tested and it will take some time to find the correct charge.
Netflix is also allowing users to add sub-accounts with standard and premium subscriptions in some places. All this account is for those people who do not live with the subscriber.
Each sub-account will have its own profile and recommendations etc. It will not be GPS based. It will use IP address, device ID, etc. to know whether users are sharing their account with people outside the home.
first published:April 25, 2022, 3:19 p.m.
