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Poll: Do you share passwords for streaming services with family and friends?

Netflix is reportedly considering clamping down on password sharing.

THERE ARE A plethora of streaming services out there now to watch TV and films on, and membership of such platforms has soared during the pandemic.

And Netflix – the biggest player in the game – is reportedly considering clamping down on people sharing passwords with each other.

Some users have seen a new message appearing when logging onto Netflix saying: “If you don’t live with the owner of this account, you need your own account to keep watching.”

A spokesperson for Netflix told the BBC that this test was designed to help “ensure that people using Netflix accounts are authorised to do so”. 

So, today we’re asking you: Do you share passwords for streaming services with family and friends?


Poll Results:

Yes (5398)
No (3374)
No interest / No opinion (609)
Have no access to streaming services (542)

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    Mute Patrick J. Keating
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    Aug 9th 2022, 7:15 AM

    Poke a tiger. What happens next?

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    Aug 9th 2022, 7:46 AM

    @Patrick J. Keating: he gets an Eagle on a par 4

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    Aug 9th 2022, 7:47 AM

    @Patrick J. Keating: tiger sex?

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    Aug 9th 2022, 9:05 AM

    @Patrick J. Keating: So you would always give in to a bully? The CCP is having a hissy fit and they need to get over themselves.

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    Aug 9th 2022, 3:41 PM

    @Earth Traveller: No-one said anything about giving in. It doesn’t have to be an all or nothing position. Pelosi went on a solo run to needlessly stoke up tensions and the only people who will ultimately suffer are the Taiwanese.

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    Aug 9th 2022, 4:09 PM

    @Michael Geraghty: Don’t forget to let me know how you get on with that.

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    Mute Ciaran
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    Aug 9th 2022, 9:09 AM

    Of course they are preparing to invade. Didn’t Russia do / say they were doing the same type of drills before invading Ukraine ?

    Just wondering how many people
    will be putting Taiwan flags up when China does invade …

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    Aug 9th 2022, 10:12 AM
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    Aug 9th 2022, 11:05 AM

    I always appreciated the quality difference of the Taiwan rubber King Kong as compared to the ‘made in china’ version. The Taiwan version always had a bit more character and detail, and more durability…..less ‘perishing’.

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    Aug 9th 2022, 11:58 AM

    @Keth Warsaw: there also brilliant for shoe for the 1 legged people ….

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    Aug 9th 2022, 12:06 PM

    @Keth Warsaw: LOL

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    Aug 9th 2022, 10:27 AM

    First hong kong, second ukraine, third taiwan? The russians need china to take taiwan for semiconductors for weapons as they are running out.

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    Aug 9th 2022, 7:55 PM

    @François Pignon: That’s not going to happen at all. Taiwan can’t produce semiconductors without the machinery and raw materials it gets from Europe. Any invasion would see those supplies stop immediately.

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    Aug 9th 2022, 1:33 PM

    Thanks Ms Pelosi

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