Here’s how much Disney Plus will charge to share your password

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Disney’s caller ‘extra member’ add-on starts astatine $6.99 per month.

By Emma Roth, a quality writer who covers the streaming wars, user tech, crypto, societal media, and overmuch more. Previously, she was a writer and exertion astatine MUO.

Sep 25, 2024, 5:02 PM UTC

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Disney CEO Bob Iger said the institution would start making users wage to stock their passwords this month, and present we cognize however overmuch it volition cost. In a enactment page spotted by CordBusters, Disney Plus says adding an “extra member” to an ad-supported program volition outgo $6.99 monthly, with that terms going up to $9.99 for its ad-free plan.

The institution says the other subordinate offering volition fto you stock your subscription with a person oregon household subordinate who lives extracurricular your household. This enactment lone applies if you person a standalone subscription to Disney Plus — not the bundle with Hulu, ESPN Plus, and different services — and if you’re billed by Disney directly.

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The other subordinate add-on comes with immoderate limitations, too. That subordinate volition beryllium restricted to 1 profile, and they tin lone watercourse and download connected 1 instrumentality astatine a time. Disney besides says other members “cannot person an progressive Hulu subscription, oregon an progressive oregon canceled Disney+ oregon ESPN+ subscription.” The Verge reached retired to Disney with a petition for much accusation astir this but didn’t instantly perceive back.

Ever since Netflix made its foray into paid sharing past year, Disney has been hinting astatine rolling retired its ain measures. The institution started doling retired warnings to people “suspected of improper sharing” this summer, but present it seems the password-sharing crackdown has yet begun. This isn’t the lone large alteration Disney Plus is making, either — it’s besides going to rise prices crossed each its plans successful October.

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