Netflix continues its hot and cold approach to communicating its anti-password sharing efforts. After clarifying the extent of the new measures that popped up online last week, the streaming giant has posted more precise rules that will apply to Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain.

The move comes after official information posted on Netflix's Costa Rican page (among a few other countries) featured a detailed description of how account sharing would work moving forward. These measures were met with a backlash from users. That said, the new guidelines are somewhat similar to those reportedly mishandled last week, with the primary development being pricing.

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Per The Hollywood Reporter, new requirements call for primary account holders to set a location for their main household. That way, people living in that same household won’t have to go through any extra steps to access Netflix when traveling or away from home. Then, heading over to the “Share your Netflix account” Section on any of the previously mentioned countries' Help Center will lead to a shorter explainer that says Standard and Premium users can share accounts with people outside said household, provided they pay an additional fee that will cost CAD$7.99 a month per extra person in Canada, NZD$7.99 in New Zealand, €3.99 in Portugal, and €5.99 in Spain.

Netflix's spokesperson detailed that the company will determine if a user belongs to the main household based on data like if a particular device has used the Wi-Fi from that primary user's location at least once per month. Benefactors not in the primary user's location will be prompted to subscribe or ask the primary user for “paid sharing benefits.” While the conditions represent an improvement, many users will still find this new set of controls to be far from ideal, as they still forbid cross-border account sharing, among other restrictions.

It bears saying that certain Latin American countries that acted as Netflix's test sites for its convoluted new password-sharing criteria, such as Chile and Peru, now feature the same message described above. In the United States (and most of the world), the site has updated text warning customers that accounts are only meant to be shared within the same home without any further info. Suffice it to say even with this latest development, Netflix's marketing has created serious problems for users.

As stated by its CEO, Ted Sarandos, Netflix is bracing to lose subscribers once the password-sharing policies apply in all markets. Nevertheless, there’s also the expectation for an uptick in paying users after the dust has settled.

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Source: The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix, Tracey Kent