If you haven’t received a notice about sharing a Netflix account away from home, what?
Officially, it is no longer possible to share a Netflix account outside the home using two or more different IP addresses. on paper, many users claim to be able to continue enjoying content on the platform streaming while share with relatives, friends or acquaintances who live far from them. What is happening? Wasn’t February 21 the last day to choose the location of your main Netflix account?
Why can I share a Netflix account outside my home if it’s prohibited?
“A primary location will be automatically configured. Starting February 21, 2023, a primary location will be set if your account doesn’t have one. Access to devices from certain locations using your account may be blocked“. This message opened the ban on Netflix could block access from February 21, 2023 to your account, as long as they connect from another IP address.
However, In practice, this geolocation system is a mess. Without going any further, in the account that I will share until March 10, 2023 (so it’s an individual account), The strangest places appeared when I lived in Madrid: Zaragoza, Barcelona, Valencia… Depending on the device I connected through, the location was different. The solution for now? If you enter the section Manage access and devicesthis place that I esteemed no longer appears netflix in your place. Curious, right?
There were also issues for users who manually set their primary location; mistakes that forced the process to be repeated the next day. That’s to say, It is not possible to geolocate every device that connects to Netflix.
But This does not mean you can share an account with people who live away from you, because the theory says you should always be logged into the same IP (with the same location). Maybe in a few days the blockages will start, once Netflix’s IT team finds the solution to so many problems.
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