The Best Reactions to Netflix Cracking Down on Password Sharing

Netflix is cracking down on password sharing — forcing primary users to add subaccounts if they wish to continue sharing their access to the streaming platform with those outside their household. The catch: you can only add one with a basic subscription and two with a premium one, and they cost an additional $7.99 / month! Let’s just say this seems like the most consumer-aggravating way to squeeze extra money out of users — in a last-ditch effort to improve profit margins. And well…Netflix subscribers aren’t happy. Some are even bidding the streaming giant a bitter farewell. 

Did you think through all scenarios, Netflix?

Ahhh. Its finally happening in the US. @netflix is cracking down on Password sharing. Time to #CancelNetflix. This is stupid btw cause I'm in a hospital and not at home with my family that I share Netflix with. pic.twitter.com/LEJRYYpDGo

— The_Legendary_Quarintined_Potato (@LegendarySuper7) May 26, 2023

Can someone or @netflix explain how this new policy works when one partner travels outside of the home? When families go to vacation homes? When children go away to grandparents houses for the summer?

Did anyone think this through it all?https://t.co/fyHezGQtjG

— Casey (she/her) (@MamaSissieSays) May 25, 2023

They’re just not getting it…

Netflix: we are going to start charging people for sharing passwords

Us: fine we just gonna cancel our subscriptions then

Netflix:that was a mistake we aren’t going to do that

(1 year later)

Netflix: we are going to start charging people for sharing passwords

Us: pic.twitter.com/7BEYc6pS0V

— Henny Hulk (@snapIN2aSLlMJIM) May 25, 2023

We’re not advocating illicit activity (but others are)

Netflix banning password sharing for the poor and struggling generation raised by limewire, Napster, and bearshare is a bold move.

— Amanda???? (@BatwoMANDA) May 26, 2023

When NETFLIX updated their password sharing policy#comedy #skit #foryou #Netflix #netflixandchill pic.twitter.com/oPPyN9nCqt

— yerocd8 (@BlitzComet888) June 1, 2023

Netflix starts charging $8 for sharing passwords:

Millennials who grew up on Limewire, Napster and Pirate Bay: pic.twitter.com/glPCC19ObL

— Concealed Carry class: EVERYDAY (@skinny_que) May 25, 2023

That’s it. We’re through. 

Later, @netflix! I'm not paying your $8 ransom for password sharing. You could have handled this so much better. It was a fun 10 years, but I'm done. It's not me, it's you.#netflixpassword pic.twitter.com/PRyhgePjxJ

— VAN (@RightHandVAN) May 26, 2023

Netflix trying to end password sharing and therefore losing subscriptions via people cancelling. pic.twitter.com/EWAwtBJS9U

— Dante the Dog’s Poker Buddy (@MrBirdBot) May 26, 2023

Prime Video and Paramount+ are going to sit back and enjoy the spectacle

HBO Max Turning into max
Netflix cracking down on password sharing
Disney Plus and Hulu removing Content

Prime Video and Paramount Plus watching everything go down: pic.twitter.com/d9VGB48F5R

— joe (@Strongambush886) May 23, 2023

Is T-Mobile the next move?

@netflix stops password sharing? No problem! @TMobile got you covered by having it for free!

— Muhammad Omer (@omerblablabla) June 1, 2023

Netflix is ruining the culture

"LoVe Is ShArInG a PaSsWoRd" pic.twitter.com/UkX5jN6dod

— Roberto V. M. (@RVMinasi) June 1, 2023

Netflix just ended an era .. everybody was sharing passwords with everybody ???????? it was so clutch

— Markelle Raymond (@Productivekelle) June 1, 2023

You can sit and take it, or you can take action

In protest of Netflix’s password sharing ban, I have been leaving flash drives around the city with the entire Netflix library accessible through an exe file

— alex (@VinDieselStay) June 1, 2023