Netflix put the day a couple of weeks ago February 21st as the deadline to choose the main location of one netflix accountthreatening block Those that are not in the main location. What happens if you haven’t pinned it, or you’re not at the location?
As we all know, Netflix has announced the end of shared accounts in Spain. It is one of the first countries in the world where it is carried out, perhaps because a lot is shared here. According to the OCU, 60% of Spanish Netflix accounts they are shared.
The company has set a series of deadlines. The regulation of the accounts is carried out from the main location, which is the house where the person who pays the bill lives. Who does not live within the main location, will be blocked from today.
The main location on Netflix
In a message that has appeared to everyone after connecting, Netflix indicates that the owner of the account has a term until the February 21st for select main location. What happens if you have not done it because you have refused, or you have forgotten?
From tomorrow, Netflix will select it for you. To do this, it tracks the IP address of the users who connect with that account, as well as the WiFi network IDs, and it determines where the paying user livessetting your WiFi network as the primary location.
What if Netflix has done it wrong and has chosen a location that is not? You just have to go to setting of your netflix accounty change it. You can also do it from the Get Help option on the TV.
By choice of Netflix or own decision, starting tomorrow all accounts will be assigned a primary location. And this is where the doubts pile up.
What will happen to the shared accounts what are not used in the main location, that is, the WiFi network of the house? According to Netflix: “Devices from some locations on your account may be blocked from access.”
So in theory, starting tomorrow it will block those shared accounts. It will be interesting to see if he dares to do it, wait a while, or recoil… In Latin America, in the face of protests and massive casualties, the price of sub-accounts has dropped.
What if you are the owner of the account or live in the same house, but you connect outside the main location o you go on vacation for a month? It seems that Netflix gives a month to use the account away from home. After that period you must connect again from the main location, or request a code that is sent to the mobile of the account owner.
It is not clear how this code will work, and if it will be a covert way to continue using shared accounts, if the owner of the account gives you the code. It seems that it will work for mobile, but not for televisions.
What options do those who do not live at the primary location have? O well go once a month to the main location and connect from there, something possible with a mobile but not with a TV. EITHER buy a subaccount.
The check Standard only allows a subaccountand the Premium, of the. Each subaccount costs 5,95 euros.
Our advice? Wait. Netflix is not clear at all, and in Latin America has lowered prices. If few people sign up here, possibly they will also drop.
In one way or another, for better or for worse, the end of shared accounts and the selection of main location in Netflix supposed a change of era to the company. But there are still many unknowns. We’ll see if, starting tomorrow, he starts up the blockades, or backs down.
