The rule might especially affect co-parents or parents with kids in college.
Netflix has already piloted the new program, called Netflix Homes, in Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic. Customers will be asked to pay an additional fee if they use their account for more than two weeks outside of their primary residence, according to, which first reported the password-sharing crackdown method. It costs roughly $2.99 per additional household, or “sub-account.
The new Netflix Homes strategy also allows users to “watch Netflix on a TV outside your home for up to 2 weeks as long as your account has not been previously used in that location. This is allowed once per location per year,” to account for vacations where you might watch Netflix on a TV in an Air B&B, resort, or hotel.
If a sub-account is deemed necessary, a new member can set up said sub-account with their own email address and still stream Netflix at the same time as the primary user, depending on the level of the plan. But for parents, this also creates another weird obstacle.
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