We all knew it was coming. The subsequent part of Netflix’s months-long crackdown on password sharing — which itself follows the corporate’s first quarterly subscriber loss in a decade — is quickly upon us. The firm announced during its quarterly earnings call on Tuesday that it’s going to cost clients an added month-to-month payment to individuals who share their login credentials starting in early 2023.

This transfer is an growth of a pilot program presently operating in Latin America which expenses additional charges for “extra user” subaccounts, customers outdoors of your fast family who use your login to entry the service. Basically, each itemizing on the “Who’s Watching?” display screen goes to value you extra cash if they do not additionally stay with you. 

Netflix has not but introduced pricing for the punitive expenses although in the event that they observe the pilot program’s “one quarter of the basic rate” scheme, it ought to work out to round US$3-4. For people eager to keep away from these charges, Netflix unveiled on Monday an account migration software that can switch a consumer’s subaccount information (viewing historical past, suggestions and the like) to their new, unbiased subscription. 

In addition, the corporate not too long ago introduced a cheaper, ad-supported tier that can value $7 a month when it launches on November third. The new tier might be accessible in a dozen international locations, together with the UK, Canada, and Mexico, by November tenth.