The plan of the company to stop password sharing has not been confirmed

New rules on password sharing from Netflix and how to get them if you don’t live in the same household (and not in Canada or Spain)

We already know that Netflix is planning to roll out password sharing more broadly within the coming months. In the last few months, it has started to require users to pay more for extra users who are located outside the subscriber’s primary household.

A new policy from Netflix only allows for accounts to be shared with people who live in the same household. Kids who have gone off to college can’t share the house with their parents, and partners who are dating but don’t live together can’t. Or at least, that’s the idea anyway.

Previously, Netflix lightly discouraged people from sharing accounts across multiple households by limiting how many simultaneous streams were allowed (although it also explicitly encouraged the practice on social media). On cheaper plans, you could only stream on one screen at a time, and the more you paid, the more devices could stream simultaneously, up to four.

When it comes to how we will be pushed to pay for sub-accounts for exes,cousins, former roommates and complete strangers, it’s not ready to tell.

Users in these countries will now have to pay to give people they don’t live with access to their account, after similar rules were trialed in Latin America last year.

Two people outside of the household will be able to use a person’s account with the help of the new rules. Adding a new person in Canada and New Zealand will cost you $5.09 each, and in Portugal and Spain it’ll be 3.99 each.

Password Sharing on Netflix: How the Stock Has Surprisingly Optimised in 2018, Following Usage Concerns in 2022

Password sharing limited the company’s ability to invest in new content and hurt its revenues, according to a post on the company’s website.

The company said there was confusion amongst users about when and how they could share their accounts.

As part of the latest changes, users in the four countries will be asked to set a “primary location,” which ensures that all members of a household watch from the same account. A new page will allow members to more easily control who is allowed to have access.

But the stock has rallied 24% since the start of the year, lifted by the falling value of the US dollar. Netflix generated over half of its revenue in 2022 from outside the United States, so whenever the dollar loses value its international sales and earnings get a boost once translated back into the currency.

Concerns about streaming subscription fatigue and increased competition from Disney and Apple caused shares of the company to plummet last year.

The Aluminum-bodied Pad: A Proposal for Streaming a Smartphone from the Outskirts of Netflix to the United States

The aluminum-bodied tablet looks to be a sleek addition to the often clunky world of Android tablets. Most notable is its 11.6-inch screen with an aspect ratio of 7:5. That’s odd for a tablet; most iPad screens are 4:3, which is the same as a classic television set. When holding the Pad in landscape mode, the screen should be a little taller than it is on a tablets, since thePad is in landscape mode.

The streaming service has been testing out the restrictions in countries with smaller customer bases. The crackdown hasn’t come for the US yet, but that it will seems about as likely as Netflix canceling one of its shows after a single season. (Which is to say, very likely.)

Pay-Later plans allow customers to pay for stuff with interest-free installments rather than having to take out a bank loan. Cash-sucked consumers use financial services like Affirm to buy food and holiday gifts, as they prefer these services because they are easy to use. Of course, they’ve got some problems. Who doesn’t like the idea of not paying full price and then being financially strapped months later?

Source: https://www.wired.com/story/oneplus-pad-android-tablet/

How to Verify Facebook, Netflix, and Other Crypto-Circumcriminators: The Ubiquity of Testing Apple’s BNPL

Apple is eager to get in on the BNPL game under its own proprietary system, of course. Apple first announced the feature at its 2022 Worldwide Developers Conference, but it has yet to make its way to the public. Recently, Apple expanded its testing of the plan to employees at its retail stores, a move that has often preceded other Apple service announcements. That seems to be saying that the wider roll out of the plan is imminent.

Turns out, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are in fact entirely traceable. You just have to know where to look. And unfortunately for some crypto-carrying criminals, federal law enforcement officers knew exactly how to track them down.

If a device tries to connect to your account from outside the home—which Netflix identifies using information like your IP address and device IDs—it will need to be verified when it logs in. They’ve removed much of the information from the guides that they published, and insisted that this information only applied to Chile, Costa Rica, and Peru. (They’ve since expanded to Canada, New Zealand, and other countries, but not the US. Yet.)

The first is annoyance-based. The person signing in will be required to enter a four-digit code within 15 minutes. This shouldn’t be a big deal for people in the same household. If the family goes to a hotel or vacation home, the account holder can verify their TV pretty easily. It may be more difficult if your partner can’t text you a code.