New Netflix plan in tests: pay more for each house in which your account is used

2022-07-19 14:36:14 By : Mr. hongjin Jane

Subscribe to Xataka MobileReceive an email a day with our articles:We have been receiving information from different sources for quite some time about how things will change at Netflix when it stops allowing remote account sharing.Or better said, when it stops allowing them to be shared without having to pay any toll, since the solution proposed by the company to increase its income and regularize this sharing will involve extra income.So Netflix, in one of its tests, is going to allow us to share the account with someone who does not live in our home, as before, but turning a blind eye is over.The company will get serious and will demand price supplements from us, and its action plan has already been announced for some Latin American countries.In addition, they will come into operation this same month of August.As we have said, Netflix has been warning for some time that it was going to end that turning a blind eye and allowing us to share our account with friends and family from a distance, paying the corresponding fee and with profiles that open with IPs that are thousands kilometers from each other.It seems that this moment has arrived and Netflix is ​​testing a new method that starts from several Latin American countries and will be extended to more in the coming months.Starting from Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and the Republic of Guatemala, Netflix will launch the possibility of 'Add a house' which will mean increasing the monthly fee in exchange for being able to see the content in different locations at the same time, although the addition of these 'houses' will depend on what plan we are paying at that precise moment.Thus, Netflix users will only be able to view their content in a 'House' (a single address, under the same IP address) with the fee they are currently paying, regardless of the quality of the content, the number of devices or the number of allowed users.In other words, both the Basic plan and the Standard plan or the Premium plan will have only one house available.Goodbye to watching Netflix from two houses without going through the box.We can add houses, yes, paying more each month.But the number of houses to add will depend on our plan.Users of the basic plan will only be able to have two houses, the basic one plus the added one.Users of the Standard plan will be able to have three houses, the basic one plus two added ones.Premium plan users will be able to have up to four active houses, the basic one plus three extra houses.In the specific case of Argentina we already have the price list to be able to do these cases.There, the Netflix Basic plan costs 429 Argentine pesos (3.28 euros at the current exchange rate) and adding a house will cost 219 more Argentine pesos (1.68 euros at the current exchange rate).That is, Netflix will require a 50% extra fee for each house added.This means that users of the Standard plan will pay twice as much as now for adding their two houses (Basic + 50% for second house + 50% for third house).Netflix tells that in this new trial 'home' plan trips are included since we will be able to see content in the service away from home through a tablet, a laptop or a mobile device.The service will also allow you to manage the houses in a simple way, being able to remove and add houses whenever you want from the account settings.When it comes to how to detect these "houses", Netflix makes it clear that it will be based on the IP address, the user ID or the activity of the account itself.This will help them determine which house is the main one and cut off the service in the rest of the houses unless the user enables them in their account, after payment.And remember, there is a limit of accounts depending on the plan that we have contracted.All this will start in LATAM in August, we will see when it arrives in Europe and Spain.More information |NetflixShare New Netflix plan in tests: pay more for each house in which your account is usedMore Sites You'll LikeSee more articlesSee more videosAt Xataka Móvil we talk about...

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