New Netflix feature makes it difficult for users to share accounts

Netflix started testing a feature that might discourage users from users share a subscription password through a system that, in addition to the notification, sends a verification code to the original user.

Some users of the streaming content platform saw, upon logging in, their TV screen displaying a message that if they did not own the account, they should create a new one.

The post, first reported by The Streamable, is part of a test that the tech company has started making sure that anyone who logs in to the subscriber or lives with him. And to make sure, send a verification code.

It’s one of “hundreds of tests” that Netflix performs each year, as a spokesperson reported to CNBC. In this case, the test “is designed to help ensure that people who use Netflix accounts are allowed to do so,” he says.

This test does not have a clear objective at the moment, as it could discourage users from sharing an account’s password, but also prevent unauthorized third parties from accessing it, for example after a security breach. in which they were exposed credentials.