New terrible Netflix change put in place; Cracking down on password sharing

EDITORIAL

Netflix is planning on cracking down on password sharing. Their profits are falling, and it’s no wonder–they keep making awful changes.

The most recent offender–as said above–is their attempt to stop password sharing. As of the end of 2022, Netflix had 230.7 million subscribers, over 100 million of which share passwords. However, this is by Netflix’s definition of sharing. “A Netflix account is meant to be shared in one household (people who live in the same location with the account owner),” Netflix says.

This is an awful definition. It fails to account for the millions of people who share passwords within the family but have divorced parents and two houses,