Last Updated: February 04, 2023, 14:30 IST
Netflix’s anti-password sharing guidelines do not apply for US customers presently. (Credits: Pexels by way of Canva)
Netflix’s controversial anti-password sharing guidelines presently don’t apply for customers in the US and had been posted in error. Twitter believes it is the corporate ‘backtracking’ after pushback.
Netflix lately obtained a lot flak over stringent anti-password sharing guidelines that required folks to entry the WiFi of their major location each 31 days to point out that they belonged to the identical family. The choice obtained widespread criticism, with folks asking what that meant for school children or these travelling. The crackdown on password-sharing in itself had been receiving flak and the brand new rule didn’t please viewers.
As per The Streamable, a Netflix spokesperson has now stated that these guidelines presently solely apply to Chile, Costa Rica, and Peru, and the assistance centre article had by chance gone dwell in different nations. There will probably be communication to clients earlier than a major change like that’s made, the spokesperson stated. The guidelines presently don’t apply for US customers.
But Twitter is satisfied that Netflix has “backtracked” due to the massive pushback from customers. People are celebrating it as a bit of a win, even though there’s no telling if the rules might go live for other countries again.
After getting dragged Netflix said password sharing is still on and their policies about it were posted in error. Yeah they fcked around & FOUND OUT pic.twitter.com/r2Qiuc4GTw— Drebae (@Drebae_) February 4, 2023
Netflix seen them tweets about torrenting and got in line QUICK— HOOD VOGUE is tired of poverty (@keyon) February 3, 2023
heads up about the netflix sign-in-with-your-router thing being a “mistake”: it was only a “mistake” in the USthey were totally gonna do it because they did it elsewhere pic.twitter.com/0Tlh7cKVXa
— Kyle Tsetso (@KyleTsetso) February 4, 2023
Netflix doubled down so fastThese corporations be tryna play in our face & wallets & we’ve finally started bullying them into reneging the nonsense. Love that for us.
— Zoliqwa (@_zolarmoon) February 4, 2023
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