Netflix password sharing limits coming to USA

If you are sharing your Netflix password with others, you may start encountering some push back from Netflix soon.

The company has announced that the crackdown on password sharing is coming to the United States.

Netflix has been doing this in other countries for a little bit now, and so far the results have been good. Well, good for Netflix, which is why they're doing this.

Now, the USA is going to be part of the crackdown:

After testing out its password sharing crackdown in several markets, including Canada, Netflix says they saw subscriber numbers go up after the crackdown.

"A Netflix account is meant to be shared in one household (people who live in the same location with the account owner)," Netflix says on the customer-help section. "People who are not in your household will need to sign up for their own account to watch Netflix."

This won't be a big deal for me. I found out years ago that the content on Netflix wasn't enough for me to keep the subscription. I'll subscribe to the service from time to time, as part of my subscription rotation, but it's not something I watch with any regularity.

However, Netflix is a very popular streaming service, and part of that is the password sharing. That's ending soon in the USA. Well, you can pay more to share passwords, which is the whole idea.

The cost for sharing is nearly as much as the cost for a separate subscription, meaning that many will simply pay for a new subscription rather than for a sharing plan. My Streaming Life won't be impacted by this, but yours might.