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Hulu is cracking down on password sharing, just like Disney Plus and Netflix

Effective March 14th.

By Sean Hollister, a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. This week, the company revised its Terms of Service to explicitly ban password sharing outside of “your primary personal residence,” and it’s begun to tell subscribers they’ll need to comply by March 14th, 2024. This doesn’t come as much of a surprise: the writing’s been on the wall ever since Netflix reported that its password sharing crackdown was successful in driving more signups, after Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed he’d like to follow suit, and certainly after Disney Plus began its own password sharing crackdown in earnest.

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