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Henry T. Casey

UNBELIEVABLE: The netflix password sharing crackdown we all hate is actually working | History Defined

Netflix logo on a TV screen next to a vase of flowers

The Netflix password-sharing crackdown, which spent about a year gestating, finally hit the U.S., U.K. and Australia earlier this year. Love was no longer sharing a password, and Netflix wanted its money, specifically $8 / £4.99 / AU$7.99 per additional household.

But for all the complaining I saw online, a new report on Netflix's numbers say that the big red streaming machine's bold strategy paid off in its earliest days. This news comes to us from The Wall Street Journal, which cites a report from the Antenna analytics firm.

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