{"id":44,"date":"2021-04-01T22:40:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T02:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmfranklin.com\/nmi\/production\/project-three\/news\/?p=44"},"modified":"2021-04-03T19:24:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T23:24:25","slug":"netflix-is-getting-serious-about-ending-all-of-that-password-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmfranklin.com\/nmi\/production\/project-three\/news\/netflix-is-getting-serious-about-ending-all-of-that-password-sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Is Getting Serious About Ending All of That Password Sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Netflix Is Getting Serious About Ending All of That Password Sharing<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The days of hanging onto your ex’s Netflix password long after you have broken up may soon be over. According to a new report from The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>,<\/strong> Netflix is trying to curb the long-held tradition of password sharing with a new feature that will catch people in the act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now, as the website Gammawire<\/strong> noted, some who are watching with a shared password will be met with a screen asking “Is this your account?” If it is indeed an account you pay for, you can “verify” that you’re the person intended to be watching via a code sent either via text or email. You can also “verify later,” which gives you a little time to continue bingeing Murder Among the Mormons<\/em> <\/strong>before you’re forced to get your own account or reconnect with a past love to beg for their code. A Netflix spokesperson told THR<\/strong> that the “test is designed to help ensure that people using Netflix accounts are authorized to do so.” Apparently, one-third of all Netflix users have shared their passwords with others outside of their household.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In August of last year, Netflix introduced a “Watch Free” option, where people without an account can watch a handful of original movies and TV shows before ponying up for a subscription. Even more recently, the company ended its free 30-day trial period for new users. All of this now seems like small steps toward this password crackdown. This new system\u2014which is still in its early stages\u2014isn’t a foolproof way to prevent passwords from getting passed around, but it’s possibly the start of a new era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Story by Esther Zuckerman, Thrillist)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The days of hanging onto your ex’s Netflix password long after you have broken up may soon be over. According to a new report from The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix is trying to curb the long-held tradition of password sharing with a new feature that will catch people in the act. Now, as the website Gammawire noted, some who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-and-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmfranklin.com\/nmi\/production\/project-three\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmfranklin.com\/nmi\/production\/project-three\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmfranklin.com\/nmi\/production\/project-three\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmfranklin.com\/nmi\/production\/project-three\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmfranklin.com\/nmi\/production\/project-three\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mmfranklin.com\/nmi\/production\/project-three\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/mmfranklin.com\/nmi\/production\/project-three\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmfranklin.com\/nmi\/production\/project-three\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmfranklin.com\/nmi\/production\/project-three\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmfranklin.com\/nmi\/production\/project-three\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmfranklin.com\/nmi\/production\/project-three\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}