Madrid (EFE)
In addition, subscribers who have a second home or who frequently travel to the same location should open the Netflix app on their mobile devices while connected to their primary location’s Wi-Fi network once a month and then when reach the second location, sources from the platform have informed EFE.
This plan, which is also beginning to be applied in Portugal, New Zealand and Canada, is based on the solutions tested over the last year in shared accounts in Latin America, said the platform’s director of product innovation, Chengyi Long, in a statement on the company blog.
“We’ve always made it easy for people living under one roof to share their Netflix account with features like profiles and multi-screen viewing. While they’ve been hugely successful, they’ve also caused some confusion about when and how you can share Netflix,” he said.
Thus, from this moment on, subscribers should have “greater control over who can access their account” from Netflix, which “is designed for a single home” and for the people who live in it, notes the note, therefore that the company will “help set up” each account to establish the primary location.
With these novelties, subscribers will be able to control who uses their contract: “Our main objective has been to give subscribers greater control over who can access their account,” they emphasize.
The Netflix “sub-accounts” of the Standard or Premium plans will have an additional cost of €5.99 per person in Spain
As before, subscribers of the Standard or Premium plans in many countries (Canada, Spain, New Zealand and Portugal included) will be able to add “subaccounts” for a maximum of two people with whom they do not live. Each of these sub-accounts will have its own profile, personalized recommendations, username and password, at an additional cost of €5.99 per month per person (in Spain).
In addition, those who start using their own paid account will be allowed to move their profile, keeping their personalized recommendations, viewing history, their list, or their saved games.
Regarding the use of the platform during trips, they ensure that “as always, subscribers will be able to watch Netflix on their personal devices or log in on another television (in a hotel or vacation rental, for example).”
The platform recalls that currently “there are more than 100 million households that share their accounts, which reduces our ability to invest in creating great stories, told with the highest quality series and movies.”