The hashtag #CancelNetflix is growing on social media after the streaming giant has implemented a tightening, even in Italy, to its password sharing policy. Users - as the BusinessInsider site writes - express dissatisfaction with a service that requires an extra cost to allow a user outside their household to access content, posting their cancellation notification and inviting others to do so.
Many users on Twitter are sharing a 2017 post by the American company, whose slogan at the time was 'Loving is a sharing password' - thus encouraging to pool access to the platform - communicating that they have closed the profile. Others write that they deleted the account in record time after seeing the cost rise; still others complain that the increase is unjustified in light of the bills to be paid these days and the content proposed by Netflix. Some British sites report that in the UK, Google searches with the term Delete Netflix account have increased by almost 3% since the streaming company started sending alert emails to users who share passwords outside their families.
In February, the streaming platform began charging users in Canada, New Zealand, Portugal and Spain an additional fee if they wanted to share access to their account with people outside their household. Then the novelty gradually spread to other countries, including Italy.
Related to this theme, the security company Check Point Software reports a computer scam related to the alleged sale of subscriptions: some Telegram channels offer access to the monthly premium plan of Netflix for just over 2 euros, in reality the plan is linked to cybercriminal portals that offer compromised credentials or hacked accounts.