Yesterday, the company said it’s sending emails to anyone who’s not watched anything in a year since joining or has stopped watching for more than two years: [Read: Google and Apple launch COVID-19 contact-tracing tech] If these people don’t respond to Netflix’s emails, the streaming service will automatically cancel their accounts. The company says it’ll keep your data for 10 months, so if you reactivate you’ll still retain your favorites, profiles, viewing preferences, and account details. Netflix says that these inactive accounts represent less than half of one percent — a few hundred thousand accounts — of its 182 million subscriber base, and the money has already been accounted for.
