COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions in Brandon have forced us to entertain ourselves indoors this winter – and for many of us that means watching films and TV shows offered by Netflix.
If you’ve got a Netflix account you know all about password sharing; you can use your friends’ or relatives’ passwords to watch the streaming service in your own home. The company’s terms of service makes it clear that accounts “may not be shared with individuals beyond your household.”
The company wants to crackdown on this practice and is now testing a security system asking you to verify your account by confirming with a text or email sent to the account holder. Users can also choose to verify later, in which case, the pop-up will show up again at an undetermined later time. If they can’t confirm they’re an authorized user, viewers will be prompted to set up a new account. Right now the ‘pop-up’ alert feature is just a test, and Netflix says it’s rolling it out to a limited number of users.
Last month, Netflix hit 200-million users – and the app’s stock rose 50% in the last year.
