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They would have no way of knowing if your wife or you are using your wife's account, so of course it doesn't include that. Why would you need to clarify that? They don't have spyware turning on your camera for facial recognition lol

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Because the data comes from surveys, not NFLX. As noted in my original excerpt:

> according to Kantar’s research, which is based on surveys of household streaming habits

Streaming platforms absolutely know who is watching. Sometimes it's because they have profiles you can set up, but that data can also come from people watching shows on their own phones/tablets/laptops, what shows they watch, and the hours that they watch them.

This shows nothing more than that you are likely to trust data you shouldn't trust. Streaming platforms have a very vague guess of who's watching.

My account, with everybody using the same profile, working different schedules, and watching different shows, I wonder what my profile looks like? 0-100 male or female is about as close as they could get.

Image capture isn't the only fingerprinting technique: there are much simpler signals like patterns related to content navigation (just one example: tap vs swipe for advancing paginated content), and the combination of such signals can create a strong fingerprint

Netflix doesn’t need to image capture because they know what content they are displaying. Swipes and taps count for little when the device is a set top box that matches every other set top boxes fingerprint.

> They don't have spyware turning on your camera for facial recognition lol

Yet.

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