This post was first published March 3, 2023, and has been updated several times, as streaming services mess with their terms and your monthly entertainment budgets.

Everyone — from those actually paying to the ones still bumming a log-in — wants to know how Netflix and other streaming services’ crackdowns on password sharing affect them. Restricting a behavior widely seen as acceptable ( even “caring”! ) was always going to be risky. But it’s the kind of drastic move that Netflix says actually grew subscribers — and it’s a worst-case scenario for users still looking for ways to stay on their parents’ or friends’ accounts. These results may or may not change the way we use streaming services in general, depending on how other streamers deploy the same tactics. Disney+ and Hulu were t

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