Although I can't say I personally know anyone who does this, I'm certainly not ignorant of the fact that many people choose to 'group up' in order to share one single access Netflix account. The benefits are, of course, that they all get the enjoy the service (presuming someone else isn't watching it) while only potentially having to pay a small percentage of the overall monthly subscription fee. So no, this isn't rare. But as you probably suspect though, this practice is very much against Netflix's own terms of service. Following a growing number of social media reports, however, it would appear that the streaming giant may finally be set to look to bring 'account sharing' to an end! Logging into your Netflix account generally takes a record of your IP address and, from this, they are able to get a rough approximation to where you currently reside. They don't use this to specifically 'track you' per say, but following a growing number of user reports, it would seem that Netflix has now started paying closer attention to the geographical locations of log-ins from accounts. Put simply, if the frequency and distance between them are a bit unusual, they might decide to flag the account for some attention. So, if that does occur, what happens next? Well, if they think something fishy might be going on it will prompt the person attempting to log-in to enter an access code that is sent to the main account holders e-mail address.

O no. Netflix doing the purge?!? pic.twitter.com/XXlHtfgfsy

— chante most (@DOP3Sweet) March 9, 2021