What is Netflix Profile Transfer? The measure to end shared accounts – Pixabay (courtesy)
2022 was a year of much chaos within Netflix, and amidst the loss of users and rising prices, its subscribers started complaining about it, among other things. The company has started taking urgent measures and is now announcing the ability to transfer profiles, with the intention of instituting a new measure that puts an end to shared profiles.
Shared accounts, a constant problem in the company, where users lend their accounts to family, friends or close friends so that they can access all the contents of the platform. Because of this, Netflix has enabled profile transfera measure by which they want to redirect the millions of dollars lost in recent months.
With a single account, people could have access to the entire catalog of the company, ‘Stranger Things’, ‘Dahmer’, ‘The Witcher’ and much more, simply by contracting the standard plan, with which two devices at the same time, regardless of distance between the main account and the shared account. With this, the streaming service had lost millions of dollars around the world.
Having implemented a new measure in countries such as Chile, Peru and Costa Rica, Netflix implements “transfer of accounts” in Mexico”, A measure by which they can transfer their lists, games and preferences to a new account. But that doesn’t mean they won’t pay, on the contrary, they will be charged a fee for moving their configuration from someone else’s profile to their own.
What does it mean to transfer the Netflix profile?
What this new measure brings with it is this Shared accounts that transfer a profile have to pay extra if you share Netflix. This only applies when the application detects that someone outside is accessing its catalog from your profile, from a location other than the main home.
This measure does not appear to be beneficial to the company’s regular users, however, by this they intend to eliminate all those shared accounts and force, in one way or another, to pay to enjoy their content. The fee for adding a user in the “profile transfer” will be around $ 3 dollars, which is almost $ 70 pesos at the exchange rate.
According to Yahoo! Finance, this new measure is already in Mexico, so users can now bring their lists, interests and settings on their profile, in a shared account, of course, with an extra payment. With this, a new feature is added to Netflix, in addition to the company’s controversial basic plan with advertisements.
Source: Nacion Flix
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