The most dreaded moment for many Netflix users in Spain has arrived. After many months of talk of the streaming service’s plans to end shared accounts globally, the company released a statement informing that its more than controversial measures to prevent users from sharing their passwords It will be implemented here, in our neighbor Portugal, in Canada and in New Zealand.

Netflix thus extends to these four countries the possibility of additional payments for shared accounts that do not share the same address, an experience that has been applied for almost a year in Chile, Costa Rica and Peru, and in the middle of last year it was extended to the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Now, this additional payment method appears to be leaving Latin America for the first time and making its way to Europe, North America and Oceania.

So Netflix has announced the prices that the other accounts will have are as follows:

• Spain: 5.99 euros.
• Portugal: 3.99 euros.
• Canada: $7.99 Canadian.
• New Zealand: NZ$7.99.

Yes, you read that right, the cost of adding an account to the Netflix family plan in Spain will need to add 5.99 euros to the 17.99 euros monthly fee for the main plan, so 23.98 euros per month.

Waiting for they had to forcefully try the system put in place by Netflix to be able to use my account when I am not connecting to the service from home, which happens in a very common way (and I do not consider myself an exception, in fact I know many people in similar situations), I cannot fail to point out the more than negative predisposition that this measure has for me adopted by Netflix represents and which is undoubtedly directly related to its more than worrying economic results.

as a subscriber I also don’t think it’s very classy of Netflix that users have to find out via a statement on the US site from the service. The website for Spain does not say anything about this and at this time we have not received any communication from the company informing about this change. Such communication will certainly happen in the coming hours or days, but since this is something that has already been planned in advance, it would be a bit more elegant to first inform the users, who are ultimately the ones paying for it. service.

Regarding the habit of sharing passwords and closing accounts between several users, there is no doubt that this has a significant effect on service accounts. However, according to the data that we have recently learned, it does not seem to be in the sense that the company suggests, since this hack on shared accounts will most likely lead to a large number of victims, which of course they will mean an even lower income than the account offers, even if it is shared.

As we have already stated on more than one occasion, Netflix is, at least in Spain, the most expensive streaming service of the wide range currently available. In its day, when the competition was much smaller and its catalog had many more third-party references, it might have been passé. Now and more with hacking shared accounts, the numbers are getting redder for the user.