12 March 2021, 12:43 am EST By What is the Reason Behind the Netflix Password Sharing Crackdown? How Serious is the Situation? ( Screenshot From Pexels Official Website ) Netflix might just be rolling out a whole Netflix password sharing crackdown as the company takes an uncompromised position when it comes to password sharing. The company, this week, starts to test out a verification system that is designed to dissuade the reportedly common practice. A select number of subscribers just this week were given a prompt reading stating that if the user did not live with the owner of the said account, the user would then need their very own account for them to continue watching. Users were then asked to give verification through a generated code that was sent either through text or email, according to an article by TheStreamable.