• News
  • Film and TV
  • Music
  • Tech
  • Features
  • Celebrity
  • Politics
  • Weird
  • Community
  • Advertise
  • Terms
  • Privacy & Cookies
  • LADbible Group
  • LADbible
  • SPORTbible
  • GAMINGbible
  • Tyla
  • UNILAD Tech
  • FOODbible
  • License Our Content
  • About Us & Contact
  • Jobs
  • Latest
  • Topics A-Z
  • Authors
Facebook
Instagram
X
Threads
TikTok
YouTube
Submit Your Content
Netflix's Five-Year-Old Tweet Comes Back To Haunt It Amid Account Sharing Crackdown

Home> News

Updated 15:28 25 Apr 2022 GMT+1Published 14:23 25 Apr 2022 GMT+1

Netflix's Five-Year-Old Tweet Comes Back To Haunt It Amid Account Sharing Crackdown

Netflix is facing intense backlash for its upcoming plans to crack down on password sharing after a tweet it wrote five years ago resurfaced

Poppy Bilderbeck

Poppy Bilderbeck

Netflix is facing intense backlash for its upcoming plans to crack down on password sharing after a tweet it wrote five years ago resurfaced.

Sharing is caring. Or so we're told. Netflix used to think so too, despite now contradicting an earlier statement by announcing controversial plans to crack down on users who share their password.

While most users don't need to worry about the stricter measures just yet, the streaming giant has been attacked even more since a tweet it wrote five years ago has come to light.

Netflix is facing fierce backlash over its new plans for a crackdown on password sharing in light of a tweet from five years ago.
Alamy

Advert

In a tweet dating back to 10 March, 2017, Netflix posted: "Love is an addiction."

Following on in the thread, it then wrote: "Love is sharing a password."

Words the streaming platform is now likely to seriously regret.

Users have since leapt on the tweet, attacking the platform for its change of heart.

Advert

One user noted how expensive the platform is already, without adding an additional charge for users outside of one's household.

"Love is… being the most expensive service, canceling loved shows without warning, and then complaining people share passwords. Who are you blaming later?" they said.

Another wrote: "Ya I’m tired of corporate greed I gotta get a vpn and get on that pirating grind."

A user echoed similar thoughts. "Why not just go straight to piracy spend the money you use for Netflix on a good vpn for piracy and privacy."

However, one user stuck up for the company's change of heart, commenting: "Love is not being a freeloader lol I’m glad to see Netflix has realized just how stupid and naive this was. Sure you’ll grow a lot early on, but as you mature, you realize your missing out on 100m potential users because of password sharing. Netflix already knows who’s who."

Advert

Although another reflected: "Let me guess, the crackdown on password sharing is for 'our protection'? Or just tell the truth. "We made some really bad content decisions and our audience has been tailing off."

Netflix's terms and conditions already state that accounts 'may not be shared with individuals beyond your household,' however that hasn't stopped people from hanging onto their ex's password in order to catch the latest season of Bridgerton or binge-watch some Selling Sunset.

The new measure will initially be trialled in Chile, Costa Rica and Peru, with account holders given the option of adding a 'sub-account' for mates or family who live outside of their household.

Advert

The 'sub-accounts' will cost an additional $2.99 per account.


While Netflix may have previously thought that 'love is sharing a password,' its $50 billion loss in under 24 hours as a result of 200,000 subscribers leaving has certainly impacted its generosity.

Advert

UNILAD contacted Netflix and they provided no further comment in relation to the tweet.

If you have a story you want to tell, send it to UNILAD via [email protected]  

Featured Image Credit: @netflix/Twitter/Alamy

Topics: Netflix, Film and TV, Entertainment

Poppy Bilderbeck
Poppy Bilderbeck

Poppy Bilderbeck is a Senior Journalist at LADbible Group. She graduated from The University of Manchester in 2021 with a First in English Literature and Drama, where alongside her studies she was Editor-in-Chief of The Tab Manchester. Poppy is most comfortable when chatting about all things mental health, is proving a drama degree is far from useless by watching and reviewing as many TV shows and films as possible and is such a crisp fanatic the office has been forced to release them in batches.

Advert

Advert

Advert

Choose your content:

5 hours ago
6 hours ago
7 hours ago
  • 5 hours ago

    Minute-by-minute simulation reveals how US would react if invaded amid WW3 fears

    The hypothetical scenario starts with an attack launched by a joint Russia-China alliance on the city of Seattle

    News
  • 5 hours ago

    Former Miss Universe contestant Kseniya Alexandrova dies aged 30 in freak accident involving elk as husband speaks out

    Kseniya Alexandrova has passed away just months after having wed her husband Ilya

    News
  • 6 hours ago

    Stephen King issues scathing message about Trump and his erratic social media posts

    The acclaimed author made his feelings on the president very clear

    News
  • 7 hours ago

    Superman actor Terence Stamp dies aged 87 as family release emotional statement

    The Oscar-nominated actor has tragically passed away

    Celebrity
  • Netflix series with ‘hot sex scenes’ crashes most-watched charts as it’s binged for 56.9 million hours
  • Everything we know about the real life house from Netflix's No Good Deed
  • Netflix confuses fans after sharing NSFW picture of Steve Carell in bed with Four Seasons cast mate
  • TV show hailed as Dwayne Johnson's 'best work' is leaving Netflix in a matter of days