Netflix has just introduced an interesting improvement with which to manage users and access to the service, although practically no one is seeing it as it is, but as what it suggests, which is nothing other than the soon end of shared accounts, something that It is expected to happen from next year, for which there is only a month and a half left.
The novelty that concerns us, however, is of interest on its own, since, as has been pointed out, it represents a significant improvement in terms of user and access management. Specifically, the option is found in the account settings, in the security and privacy section and is called “Manage access and devices«.
Call it access and devices, call it users and access, both mount. The important thing is that this new section can be check open sessions at a glanceas well as the profiles and devices that are being used, the date and time of last access, and even the approximate location and the connection IP.
An authentic simplified control center in which to manage access and devices, for being more faithful to the terms used by Netflix, with a notable extra that is the one that is taking all the shabby headlines: a button to log out of any device remotely. One click and it’s done.
It is in this aspect that the media that have covered the news have been influencing: “you can now ban your ex without changing the password” or “all power for the one who pays.” The truth, however, is that the only thing that has been done is to expand the information and simplify the management, which is to be appreciated to at least maintain order.
Until now it was necessary to change the password of the service, something that supposedly is only available to the owner because it is linked to his email account, to force all the devices to re-identify themselves. This change obviates this annoyance. But until there.
Namely, anyone with the Netflix password can still log in even if they log out, so this access and device management is really a control tool, rather than insurance against freeloaders. The same for those who sell it as a measure against hacking, because the key is still in the password, and never better said.
What it does seem is an additional tool to the transfer of the profile that Netflix released a few weeks ago. Or what is the same, a tool with which to pave the hack to the shared accounts that is coming and that will have to be seen to what extent it affects the growth of the service. Presage, does not portend anything good.
On the other hand, Netflix launched its ad-supported plan even less ago and, in the absence of official data to support its acceptance, all that can be read out there by those who have tried it is in a tone of rejection due to the lousy nature of it. an experience in which you barely save a couple of euros.
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