Netflix

Hey, so a couple of weeks ago, the new password sharing policy prevented us from sharing our account with my daughter at her university apartment, and in our cottage. Was so pissed that I downgraded my account from 4 streams to one, and started looking for other streaming services.

Since two days ago, looks like it works again. From all three locations. Any other sharing the same experience?

Netflix changing their minds?

I have a Canadian Netflix account, and I came to Mexico to visit family for a month. When I tried to watch something on Netflix, it told me that I cannot use it in this location. I contacted Customer Support, and they told me you can no longer watch Netflix outside the country from which you made an account. I gave them the link where it says that I can access Netflix from any country:

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/24853

And they told me that they recently changed that policy for "safety, security and privacy". Just to be clear, I am physically present in Mexico, I am not sharing my account and I am not trying to use a VPN to get access to another country's library. To their credit, I demanded to be refunded for the month of July and they did. But is no wonder that this business is going to the ground.

Also, considering I have not seen many posts on this topic, I suspect that other users can still access Netflix from abroad, but I do think that region locking is the direction where Netflix is going.

I have been periodically getting emails from Netflix (see below; presumably from netflix, the email address is mailer.netflix.com), but all it would tell me is the country the request is coming from which isn't helpful. I have a family account with netflix and each of us know the login information. So why would I be getting these emails? Is it likely from some troll trying to get into my account?

Sign-in Request

Dear ***,

We've received a sign-in request from a computer. Please let us know if you recognize this request and would like to allow access to your Netflix account.