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Cynthia Skane
The culprits? My beloved family. My mother, father, brother, and cousin all have access to my account. But, while offering up my password to my entire family might have seemed like a benevolent gesture at the time, I'm starting to regret it deeply.
Here lies my predicament: how do I tell my beloved mother who brought me into the world that I need her to hit pause on Grace and Frankie for a hot sec so I can relax after a tiring day at the office? Do I kick off my dear cousin, an impecunious university student, when she's midway through a Riverdale binge?
As someone who's deeply shy about confrontation, I often choose to do nothing when the too-many-users message pops up. But, my Netflix account has recently become so clogged up that I resorted to signing myself up for Amazon Prime just so I could watch some damn television.
Enough is enough, I thought to myself as I took a sip of wine in an effort to say nothing that'd land me in hot water. I needed to do something about this. But, before I did anything, I investigated my options.
The time has come when you and my Netflix account must part ways. You've had a good innings. You've watched every single episode of Stranger Things. Twice. But, now it's time for you to spread your wings, fly the nest, and cough up for your own account.
The second option was letting them know I was onto them. I access my cousin's profile on my account, clicked on Settings and scrolled down to her Viewing Activity. In among a seemingly endless list of Riverdale episodes, I spotted her dirty little secret: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2. Just as I was about to fire off a text saying "really?" I thought about my own shameful viewing preferences. Perhaps shaming wasn't the best option for me given my track record.
Text messages rolled in asking me what was going on with my Netflix. "What's your password again?" I let some time pass before sending a message letting my family members know that I would no longer be sharing my Netflix account.
Everyone took the news well, thankfully. They told me they understood and that it'd had been good while it lasted. I think I felt most guilty for cutting off my parents, but it wouldn't have been fair on my brother, cousin, and aunt if I'd kicked some people off and not others. My wonderful parents didn't mind at all, and they're already setting up their own account to fuel their insatiable Grace and Frankie thirst. I should and could have done it sooner, but finding the right break-up method always takes a little bit of time.
Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Based in the UK, Rachel writes about sex, relationships, and online culture. She has been a sex and dating writer for a decade and she is the author of Rough (Penguin Random House, 2021). She is currently working on her second non-fiction book.
I finally turned 30, which means I\u2019ve started asking myself the big questions: When do I want to have kids? Will I ever own a house? And what will I do if my parents tell me it\u2019s time to get my own Netflix plan?
Things like Netflix, Spotify, and Amazon Prime are services I was young and lucky enough to get grandfathered (daughtered?) into, because my family used them when I was still under their care and financial support. Despite the fact that I\u2019ve now grown up, moved out, and earn my own money, I still find myself texting my mom \u201CWhat\u2019s our HBOMax password?\u201D every few months, and hoping this never inspires what may now be inevitable.
In a recent interview, Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters revealed that Netflix will start asking everyone who shares a password to start paying for their own accounts. He didn\u2019t get into particulars\u2014does this mean Netflix will eliminate the plans that support multiple devices?\u2014but a declaration like this almost certainly means other platforms will follow suit.
Netflix had a bad 2022, and the economic situation in 2023 isn\u2019t great, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a coincidence that this threat coincides with the first generation of \u201CNetflix children\u201D having well and truly grown up. The only problem is, according to around 30 respondents of a survey I shared on Instagram and Twitter, nobody has a plan for what to do about it.
\u201CMy dad will sometimes try to reset the password on my accounts, which I ignore,\u201D one 31-year-old shared. \u201CHe also will download random (free) apps to their Fire Stick that I get the receipt for. He once enrolled my Amazon account in a free trial of Paramount+ through Amazon channels, even though I already have and share Paramount+ with them (I canceled the trial before it charged me).\u201D
\u201CRe: Spotify \u2014 we had a family account and my mom canceled it without realizing me and my brothers used it, resulting in an extremely stressful morning of listening to ads and being unable to skip through my playlists,\u201D a 26-year-old wrote. \u201CMom says all three kids called her within minutes of each other.\u201D
\u201CI forgot that I had access to my mother\u2019s account for about 8 years,\u201D a 32-year-old wrote. \u201CRecently a new browser just logged me right into my old old profile on her account. She now will comment on some of my viewing habits in sometimes judgemental ways.\u201D
\u201COne time I was trying to log into my dad\u2019s HBO while setting up my dating profile on my phone at the same time and I accidentally put his email into my dating profile \u2764\uFE0F,\u201D said a 27-year-old.
I have a bit of an adversarial feeling about streaming services. There is a conscious and profit-driven slicing and dicing of things to make it so that you can't find the killer app. Amazon Prime would be a perfect example of this. The sort of creep that they've had, which is, \u2018Oh, you have Amazon Prime and you can see all these things\u2019 except an increasing percentage, you go to look at it, and it's like, \u2018No, you gotta pay for that.\u2019 It's like, wait a minute. It's following this sort of American healthcare model with companies that started out where it was like, \u2018You have all these things,\u2019 and now it's like, everything must be purchased separately. So I don't feel any sort of need to maintain integrity with these streaming services because they're out gouging us and coming up with a variety of systems to make it so you have to get everything and I don't want everything.
I\u2019m sure there\u2019s someone out there whose parents sat them down and told them it was time to fly the digital nest, but for the most part, it\u2019s just one of those things that won\u2019t get talked about\u2014until it has to be.
\u201CI don\u2019t think they\u2019ll ever kick me off,\u201D a 33-year-old wrote. \u201CMy adult siblings also share as does my cousin who is 10 years older than me and has her own kids. I was just thinking the other day that it\u2019ll be weird when my parents die and I\u2019ll have to take over paying for the streaming services.\u201D
From reboots to originals, Netflix is full of entertainment for kids. Of course, it also has tons of age-inappropriate shows that kids could easily stumble across. The good news is that Netflix allows parents to restrict access to mature content so kids can only watch shows geared for their age. To enable parental controls on Netflix, you first have to create a user profile for your kid.
You can set a few parental controls through the Netflix app, but you get more options by going through your account on a web browser. Parental controls are just one way to help your kid learn to make appropriate choices and manage screen time independently. They work best with conversation about why you're restricting access.
An individual passcode ensures that each person in the household can only access their account. It prevents kids from accessing parents' profiles or siblings from watching each other's shows. You can also change your kid's passcode if you don't want them accessing their account at all.
Do you need parental controls? What are the options? Do they really work? Here's everything you need to know about the wide array of parental control solutions, from OS settings to monitoring apps to network hardware.
The account owner will need to purchase an extra member slot, then invite an extra member to use the extra member slot. The extra member must be activated in the same country where the account owner created their account. Extra members cannot be added to Netflix-included packages or third-party billed accounts.
T-Mobile is not making any changes to our Netflix benefit and are still making sure that you are able to get Netflix for your household with the On Us feature. If you are using your Netflix account in other households, then you would need to look at the extra members options through Netflix, but that would not be included in what is covered by the Netflix on Us feature on your T-Mobile account.
We paid for all these lines with this benefit as part of it and expect all of these lines to be able to use this benefit. This is the way it was pitched to us to get us onto this t-mobile plan from our previous tmobile plan.
Family: A family is a group of two or more persons related by birth, marriage, or adoption who live together; all such related persons are considered as members of one family. For instance, if an older married couple, their daughter and her husband and two children, and the older couple's nephew all lived in the same house or apartment; they would all be considered members of a single family.
T-Mobile would not pay for the extra memberships. If you upgrade your plan to Standard or Premium they charge you the extra cost. Why not be able to add a member to your plan (like you could if you had a regular Netflix account) and T-Mobile charge that extra cost also.
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