Max Cracking Down on Password Sharing With New 'Extra Member' Feature

Following successful the footsteps of Netflix and Disney+, streaming work Max is starting to ace down connected password sharing betwixt aggregate households.


Max this week debuted a caller Extra Member Add-On feature, which is designed to let users to wage a interest to stock a Max subscription with idiosyncratic who does not unrecorded successful the aforesaid home. Extra Member Add-On is priced astatine $7.99 per month, connected apical of the basal subscription price. Max with ads is $9.99 per month, portion the Standard program is $16.99 per period and the Premium program with 4K streaming is $20.99 per month.

Extra members are provided with their ain account, password, and azygous profile, and add-on members tin lone ticker Max connected 1 instrumentality astatine a time. Max subscribers are lone capable to adhd 1 further subordinate to an account.

Only those who subscribe to Max done WarnerMedia are capable to entree the Extra Member Add-On feature, and it is not disposable to those who person the Disney+, Hulu and Max bundle, oregon those who subscribe done third-party providers similar app stores and TV providers.

$7.99 per period for the Extra Member Add-On is lone $2 cheaper than an ad-supported plan, but the Extra Member diagnostic has the payment of sharing the program of the main subscriber. So if the main subscription is the 4K Premium plan, the Extra Member tin entree 4K streaming and different Premium benefits for the $7.99 price.

Max volition apt prohibit password sharing betwixt aggregate households successful the adjacent future, and volition punctual users who effort to usage an relationship from much than 1 determination to motion up for the Extra Member diagnostic oregon to wage for a abstracted subscription.
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