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Feb 2023
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Netflix falls out of love with password ...

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After turning a blind eye for many years, Netflix is now planning to tighten its rules around password sharing. Out of 215 million paying accounts, the company says, perhaps 100 million share a password with someone outside their household. The company plans to use authentication codes and other tools to determine who is part of the main account and who is not. Plus, learn the English expression ""come up.""

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