Editing Disney+ Household Restrictions & Access Limitations (section)

==Overview==

In late 2023 and early 2024, Disney began enforcing stricter measures to prevent password sharing on its streaming platform, Disney+. Password sharing is when one individual purchases a streaming service & allows all of their friends & family to use that account so they don't have to pay for their own. However, this has been criticized as being overly aggressive leaning towards inability to legitimately use the service.<ref>Reddit discussion thread. "Since when is this a thing? Wack as hell." Reddit r/DisneyPlus, February 2025. Retrieved February 25, 2025.</ref>

The restrictions work several ways:
*Limited "I'm away from home" requests (approximately 4-5 before being locked out)
*Limited household location changes (approximately 4 per year)
*IP-based detection systems that frequently misidentify home access from internet with dynamic IP as external use/password sharing.

Disney's implementation has been messy for these groups of users:
*College students splitting time between school & home
*Travelers, including business travelers & people on vacation
*Military families that travel around
*Anyone using cellular data or ISPs with dynamic IP addressing; cellular data plans change IPs much more frequently than residential wired broadband
*Users with more than 1 home device