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Netflix's password sharing clampdown reaches the UK, with a £5/month fee for non-household users

As it previously detailed, Netflix considers a household to exist in a single"primary location" - either set manually by an account holder on their TV or as determined by the streaming service - and all household devices must watch something while connected to Wi-Fi there"at least once every 31 days". Any devices not regularly connected at an account's primary location - Netflix will be snooping IP addresses and device IDs to check - risk being blocked from access.

Netflix also previously outlined a convoluted set of steps users would need to follow if they wanted to use a device not recently registered on a household Wi-Fi system or that had been blocked, essentially requiring the main account holder to request a temporary 7-day access code they'd then need to pass on to the affected user - but the streaming service'sIn January, Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters said the company expected some"cancel reaction" to its anti-account sharing...

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