Netflix has started asking customers in Spain and Portugal, among others, to pay for sharing the account outside their own household. As a result, for the first time there are prices in euros for adding a user to an account.
Adding a user to an account outside one’s own household in Portugal costs 3.99 euros per month, while the costs EUR 5.99 per month in Spain, says Netflix. In Canada and New Zealand, customers pay $7.99 Canadian or New Zealand dollars to add an additional user. Adding is only possible with Standard and Premium subscriptions.
This brings the price of an extra user slightly below that of becoming a customer yourself. With an additional user, the account holder pays for use outside their own household. Those extra users do get their own account with their own login name and password. That is not the case now: when sharing a Netflix account, you share the login name and password and you work with your own profiles.
According to Netflix, approximately 100 million households worldwide now share Netflix accounts outside their own household and as a result, the company says it can invest less in films and series. There are no new rules on the pages of Spain and Portugal about blocking users outside their own household. It was online for many countries last week, but removed Netflix. That measure will probably follow later.
