Netflix users could LOSE their accounts over little-known feature – are you at risk?

NETFLIX users could lose access to their accounts over a little-known feature that lets profile transfers be blocked.

It seemingly targets freeloaders, as the new feature swiftly followed Netflix's controversial crackdown on password sharing in May.

This feature can be easily deployed by any angry account owners to punish those who were cheekily using their Netflix before the ban set in.

Paying Netflix subscribers can block people who were wrongly using their account from transferring their profile to a new account.

So, everything Netflix has learned about them will disappear.

They will have to start afresh with a new profile and terrible recommendations.

According to Netflix, "this setting controls whether profiles can be transferred from this account to a new account, an existing account, or an extra member slot.

"It does not affect whether a profile can be transferred into this account."

There's unlikely to be many people using this Netflix feature out of spite.

Many account sharers were doing so willingly, with friends and family sharing the details to multiple streaming sites but only paying for one each.

However, you might be at risk if you're a former (or current) account sharer who was cheekily sponging off a friend-of-a-friend-of-an-uncle's-friend - or some other not-quite-consensual arrangement.

In which case, you should quickly transfer your profile to your own account - or at least the account of someone in your household - to avoid losing all of your Netflix data.

If you want to transfer your profile to a new account, follow the steps:

1. Using a web browser, sign into the account that has the profile you want to transfer to start a new account with.
2. Visit the Account page.
3. In the Profiles and Parental Controls section choose the profile you want to start a new account with.
4. Choose Transfer.
5. Choose Start Profile Transfer.
6. Choose A New Account.
7. Enter the email address and password you would like to use for the new account.
8. Follow the prompts on the screen to finish setting up the account.

If you want to transfer a profile to an existing account, follow these steps:

1. Using a web browser, sign into the account that has the profile you want to transfer.
2. Visit the Account page.
3. In the Profiles and Parental Controls section choose the profile you want to transfer.
4. Choose Transfer.
5. Choose Start Profile Transfer.
6. Choose An Existing Account.
7. Enter the email and password for the existing account you’d like to transfer this profile to.
8. Confirm by choosing Transfer Profile.

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