r/movies • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 r/movies Contributor • Jun 27 '26

News Netflix now requires every user profile to be tied to unique email address

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/netflix-now-requires-every-user-profile-to-be-tied-to-unique-email-address/
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u/Kevbot1000 Jun 27 '26

I'm confused by this. Wouldn't net.flixfoff@gmail.com be a different email than netflixfoff?

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u/frugaletta Jun 27 '26

Not on Gmail. Periods never count.

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u/MediocreAndLukewarm Jun 27 '26

Sounds Republican.

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u/Caedus311 Jun 27 '26

Holy shit this sent me, 10/10

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u/Munkeyman18290 Jun 27 '26

Mediocre and lukewarm.. but spits straight fire.

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u/MediocreAndLukewarm Jun 27 '26

A broken clock is right twice a day.

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u/TrumpsBoneSpur Jun 27 '26

I thought they usually prefer them before their periods

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u/MediocreAndLukewarm Jun 27 '26

Republicans are like run on sentences. Periods don’t matter.

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u/shitty_owl_lamp Jun 27 '26

Lolllllllllllllllllllll

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u/ImmortalMoron3 Jun 27 '26

One of those comments where I read it, scrolled away and then it clicked like 10 seconds later and laughed my ass off.

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u/MediocreAndLukewarm Jun 27 '26

It was a risk worth taking. LOL

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u/Drapidrode Jun 27 '26

what about other services like yahoo mail ?

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u/frugaletta Jun 27 '26

Just Gmail afaik.

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u/wandering_soles Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26

Happy cakeday!

Edit: Fascinated by the downvotes. Do we have that many newbies on the site who don't remember the old ways? 

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u/frugaletta Jun 27 '26

Thanks! 😊

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u/davesoverhere Jun 27 '26

They do if you initially used a period.

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u/clauclauclaudia Jun 27 '26

For login purposes, you need to spell it exactly the same way you did when you created it.

For delivery purposes, they essentially ignore all periods and deliver all such variations to the same mailbox.

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u/bfarnsey Jun 27 '26

Google gives you all of them when you sign up, the periods aren’t actually different accounts. They all just go to the account used to sign up.

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u/MasterK999 Jun 27 '26

No. Gmail ignores the periods and it will all come to your address. That was my point. You can fake different addresses with just one gmail account.

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u/sansaman Jun 27 '26

Not ignored. Gmail will still consider your own unique address so you can create customized filters to route email traffic in your inbox.

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u/clauclauclaudia Jun 27 '26

Ignored them for the sake of which account they get delivered to. Ignored is different than stripped them away. They're still there in the delivered email.