Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard
Netflix 1080p is a new browser extension for Google Chrome and Firefox (a fork). It should work in other browsers that support Chrome's extensions system.
The extension enables support for 1080p on Netflix in the browsers. Netflix customers can use Chrome or Firefox, on any supported operating system, to watch streams in 1080p using those browsers.
This overrides Netflix's -- seemingly artifical -- streaming quality limitation. The extension is especially useful for Linux users as it unlocks 1080p video streams on Netflix on Linux machines since that is not supported officially by Netflix.
Source: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/02/12/watch-netflix-in-1080p-on-linux-and-unsupported-browsers/
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday February 13 2018, @11:08PM
I'd argue that they only care when you stop subscribing.
Maybe I wasn't clear... My point was that their original content is a one-time cost whereas licensing content is a perpetual cost.
They "care" in that it's cheaper for them if a customer watches original content vs. licensed content.