Since May of this year, when Netflix execs said they would put a stop to easy account sharing, the company has not made any public indication they would start charging U.S. or European countries for handing out their streaming password.
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Last week, Netflix finally gave us the full details of its ad-supported subscription tier called “Basic with Ads.” Pricing will be $6.99 per month in the U.S. and will be coming Nov. 3, but since the company has been extremely hush-hush about its wider plans to incorporate password sharing, Netflix has made no mention of whether users will be able to share their cheap-tier accounts with family and friends living miles away.
Netflix is all set to release its latest quarterly earnings report Tuesday evening, so there is a chance this latest addition to the platform could be a harbinger of some other major announcement made to shareholders. In the streaming company’s second quarterly report for 2022 execs said they lost more than a million less subscribers than they originally expected to, though the company has not strayed from its stated path of adding ads and making people pay for sharing their password. On the other hand, critics of how Netflix has run its business have told Gizmodo the real issue is its business model and its overreliance on debt.