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love is sharing a password or at least that's what Netflix used to

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say these days they seem to care a lot more about

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that's right Netflix's Crackdown on password sharing has already started so

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if you're still using your ex's Netflix account it's a matter of time before

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they notice the bigger Bill and cut you off

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or is it climb aboard mateys four with just a few

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clicks and zero credit card numbers Netflix will have no idea that you moved

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out years ago and you don't even have to

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mess with your router to do it can I get an R

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the end to find out more

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for almost 10 years Netflix has not only

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allowed multiple users to watch with a single account but they've even provided

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tools to tailor the experience to each individual none of that is changing what

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is changing is that Netflix now says that a single account is for members of

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a single physical household so little

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Jimmy off at College he doesn't count anymore now I want to make it clear

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before we move on that this is well within their rights and any

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circumvention of their terms of service could lead to the termination of your

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account or whatever enforcement they deem appropriate but hey you click the

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video so I'm pretty sure you don't give two Hoots about any of that let's move

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on once this change rolls out in your region every account will have a primary

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location and any devices that use the account need to connect from that

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location at least once a month if you go

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longer than that you're gonna have to pay up more on that later first let's

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talk about primary locations if you're using a computer or a phone

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Netflix will attempt to automatically determine your primary location through

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a combination of your logged IP addresses your logged device IDs and

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your account activity again more on that later you can also explicitly set a

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primary location but the only way to do this is through a TV or a set-top box

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like the NVIDIA Shield curiously when we tried this though from

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our office on a brand new account we just got an error message and then when

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we contacted support they informed us that our primary location had been set

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automatically anyway so your mileage may

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vary on the whole manual primary location thing Frankly Speaking from how

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disorganized this whole rollout has been it doesn't surprise me that the process

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is a little messy it's just especially frustrating to encounter these weird

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bumps in the road when they're right in the middle of giving us less for our

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money anywho once your primary location is set

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all we need to do to enjoy our shared Netflix in peace is make sure that

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Netflix thinks that we live there at least some of the time they explicitly

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state that they allow use while traveling to achieve this we need a VPN

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but don't click away because I'm not talking about surf shark or nordvpn or

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anything like that Netflix cracked down on the use of that sort of VPN years ago

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what I'm talking about is running a VPN server of your very own from the

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accounts primary location that way your

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kid who's off at University or your so can connect to that VPN server and Route

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their traffic through it to trick Netflix into thinking that they're still

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just chilling from home perhaps in some nice new pajama pants from lttstore.com

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but Linus I hear you ask doesn't making a VPN mean that we have to fiddle around

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in our router settings surprisingly no unless you want to the

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easiest way that we found to do this is tailscale not a sponsor by the way just

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really cool software go to tailscale.com and click on use tailscale for free and

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sign up we're going to use the same account in all of our locations but with

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a few extra steps you can share machines across accounts it just gets a little

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tougher to manage if some of your users are less technically inclined once

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you've logged in add your first device we're going to assume that there's a

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Windows PC somewhere in your primary location that will be left on all the

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time but you can also host it on a Raspberry Pi or on a Mac the important

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thing is that it is always online because otherwise you ain't watching no

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Netflix we're going to click on download tail skill for Windows install it and

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log in once we're connected the website walks us through the setup asking us to

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set up a second device for our example we're going to use an Android set-top

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box like the NVIDIA Shield we open the Play Store search for tailscale and

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install the app once you've logged in go back to the Windows machine and check

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the browser the website should have updated to show you the second device

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and to show you how to Ping between devices if you want to run a quick test

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we're going to click on success this takes us to what's next where we can

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just click on the go to admin console button which will take us to the proper

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control panel where we can see our machines listed their IPs on our virtual

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Network and their current status next we need to decide which of our devices will

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be our server or as tailscale calls it our exit node this is the machine that

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we're going to Route all of our traffic through so that Netflix thinks that we

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are watching from that location all the time in our case that's the Windows PC

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so we're going to right click on the little tail scale icon in the system

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tray here click on exit node and then run exit node it's going to give us a

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little warning and since we're okay with all of what we're doing we're going to

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say yes now it'll take a few moments for that change to get to the website so in

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the meantime let's rename our devices so they're a little easier to remember if

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we click on the meatballs menu on the right side we can edit machine name for

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each and we're going to call them mom's PC and shield now you can see that this

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little exit node flag has come up for Mom's PC which tells us that Mom's PC

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has offered to be an exit node for our other devices we need to approve that in

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the admin console before it'll work so we go back to the meatballs menu for

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Mom's PC and click edit route settings in the window that pops up we just need

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to click use as exit node it's going to give us a warning here about key expiry

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by the way basically it's telling us that we're going to have to re-authenticate periodically the default

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is every few months but we can turn that off just close the pop-up go back to the

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meatballs menu and pick disable expiring the final step on the server is to right

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click on the tailscale icon in the tray select preferences and check run

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unattended that's going to allow tailscale to run as a service even if

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nobody is logged into the Windows machine it gives another little warning

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and a help message and we just say R to

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that I mean sorry yes we click yes okay we're almost there I swear back in the

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tailscale app on our client device we go to the menu and select use exit node a

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dialog pops up and we pick mum's PC the

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main screen of the app will now show that we are using an exit node which

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means that all of our internet traffic from The Shield is going through mom's

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PC so if we bring up Netflix everything

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is good it's easier to show this on a computer though so let's go over to a

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laptop we're not connected to tailscale right now and if we Google my IP we can

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see that our IP is okay we're not going to show you that but you can see what it

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starts with now we go to tail scale and

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use our mom's PC exit node and you can see that the icon now has a tiny Arrow

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indicating that we're going through an exit node we check our IP again and

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there you have it it thinks we're on the same IP as that workstation that we set

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up in the other building now as tailscale warned us the Windows exit

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node isn't really optimized yet so if we do a speed test the result is not that

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impressive but it's fast enough for a smooth Netflix experience which was the

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whole point of this exercise in the first place all you need to do is

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disconnect tailscale on the client if you want to do something other than

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Netflix without using up bandwidth on mum's PC that's another thing you'll

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need to consider is depending on how many users are accessing Netflix through

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mom's PC mom might need a faster

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internet connection now hold on a minute earlier we learned that Netflix makes

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allowances for traveling that means in theory at least that as long as we

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remember to use this VPN method to log into Netflix at least once a month on

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each device that is not in the primary location the rest of the time we should

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be able to just go about our business and Netflix should just assume that you

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know we travel a lot well maybe we can't

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know with 100 certainty how Netflix decides where you are Netflix could log

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everything you do in their apps or on their website and determine that hmm

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profile a usually logs in using a Windows PC and a Samsung TV from IP

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address 1 which is the primary location meanwhile they could observe that

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profile B never uses any of profile AIDS

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devices instead sticking to their MacBook and iPhone from a totally

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different IP address except exactly once

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a month so I would say that you might

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want to err on the side of consistently using your VPN rather than doing only

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periodic check-ins but it remains to be seen even if they know that you're

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totally not living there how Draconian Netflix is actually going to be about

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enforcement there's a very fine line between extracting maximum value from a

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customer and just ticking them off to the point where they cancel out right

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for the tech inclined by the way tailscale is not the only solution we

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found another one that doesn't require you to mess with your router is soft

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ether VPN from the University of sukuba in Japan or if you don't mind poking

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around in your router settings a wire guard VPN is a fantastic solution with

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apps available on many platforms you can use a tool like Pi VPN to install the

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server on a single board computer or a Linux machine and if you want to use a

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Windows machine as your server GitHub user Micah Mo has created a simple

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application to guide you through that process links for all of these will be

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in the video description one final thing to remember though even

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if you have a fast enough internet connection and you can afford to cover

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Netflix for all your buddies anytime you let someone connect remotely to your

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computer or to your network you are taking a security risk and potentially

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allowing everything on your network to be seen by that outside party or anyone

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that they are careless enough to allow to use their devices so with any of the

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solutions we've presented just make sure that you can trust the people that

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you're giving access to like you can trust me to tell you about

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if you want to learn more about setting up your own VPN maybe check out this

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other video we did on the topic back in 2020