Tim Hubbard (YouTube short, March 29, 2024) warns about risks of leaving streaming service accounts logged in for guests in short-term rentals. He explains that prior viewing history can be visible to subsequent guests, potentially exposing inappropriate or unexpected content and reminding guests that others have stayed in the property, which harms the guest experience.
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If we're advertising these services that we're offering them and something inappropriate comes up, it's possible that your guest could, could call you out on that. Right. And so that is one thing we all know that we've checked into a place we subscribed with our YouTube subscription or Netflix and we forget to log out. Right? And so the next guest that checks in can see your prior history. Now I know a lot of those much more graphic things like pornography, those aren't available on Netflix and stuff like that. So I don't know where these comments came from. But the reality is is that have prior viewing history on there and if it's not totally appropriate for the next person checking in, it's not really a good experience. Right. And it's not even that it's not super appropriate, but it might just be something totally different topics, totally different than someone's used to seeing. And we don't want to remind our guests that we had other guests staying in the properties.