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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday February 13 2018, @02:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the good-news-for-linux-users dept.

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/


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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by mmh on Tuesday February 13 2018, @03:58PM (10 children)

    by mmh (721) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @03:58PM (#637160)

    Instead of supporting a company that hates you. You could just visit:
    https://thepiratebay.org/ [thepiratebay.org];
    or https://eztv.ag/ [eztv.ag];
    or https://www.skytorrents.in/ [skytorrents.in];
    or https://www.limetorrents.cc/ [limetorrents.cc].

    And, download movies not only in 1080p but in 4k.

    And, you could watch them without being tracked by netflix, having every scene you pause and rewatch or skip logged in some database.

    And, you could watch them in a decent video player like VLC or mplayer which doesn't having screen-tearing problems like most all browsers.

    And, you could continue to watch them even if your ISP has a brainfart.

    It's really sad, streaming companies have had a long time now to "get it right", and yet. Amazon, Hulu, Netflix, et. al still offer a worse product than movie pirates.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @04:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @04:03PM (#637168)
  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by ledow on Tuesday February 13 2018, @04:08PM (3 children)

    by ledow (5567) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @04:08PM (#637171) Homepage

    Or... just stop watching them.

    If you disagree with the way they do business this much, why would you try to watch their content which is similarly full of advertising anyway?

    To be honest, you're an outlier. Most people are quite happy with Netflix, Amazon, even Google Play. Your concerns don't figure on their list ("so the guy I bought a movie from knows I watched that movie? So what?").

    I'm much more annoyed by content that's not on ANY of the mainstream services. I cannot get 3rd Rock From The Sun online in my region (UK), the only solution being importing a Region 1 DVD from Amazon which won't play in a standard player (not an obstacle to me, but it's annoying) and might incur import charges. And there was an old ITV series called The Two of Us, season two has been "coming" to DVD for about 10 years now, and it's not online anywhere (plays occasionally on some channels in the UK, though, but never available in a format I can watch on demand whenever I want).

    But I take the hint: You don't want me to have it? Okay, I won't. Done. I'm not going to go pirate it, I'll just let it fall by the wayside and fall from my memory too.

    Rather than consume their product anyway, just stop it. If a newspaper said you could only read their paper if you signed an NDA, or paid a subscription, or bought it from THEIR exclusive newsstands, or whatever, would you care about reading that newspaper? I wouldn't.

    • (Score: 2, Flamebait) by Arik on Tuesday February 13 2018, @04:39PM (1 child)

      by Arik (4543) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @04:39PM (#637188) Journal
      It's worse than full of advertising, it's advertising wrapped in advertising. Every show is a propaganda piece, the scripts apparently written by a committee made up of people from the marketing and 'diversity' departments, with no sign that a literate human being was ever involved. The acting is usually just as bad, but even the best actor can't make a script like that work. When I walk into a room where a friend is watching a show I often stop and watch - just until it makes me explode in laughter. Never seems to take more than ~2 minutes, if it's supposed to be a drama. Dramas need suspension of disbelief and absurdly poor scripting just makes that impossible to maintain - triggering an explosion of laughter.

      If it's supposed to be a comedy it'll probably only earn an occasional weak chuckle. That's how absurdly awful Hollywood has become. Their dramas are hilarious but their comedies are just boring.
      --
      If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
      • (Score: 3, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday February 13 2018, @06:34PM

        by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @06:34PM (#637218) Journal

        Hmm...sounds like you're doing it wrong.

        My policy is to only watch comedies that are funny. It works pretty well for me. Maybe you should try it out.

    • (Score: 1) by RedIsNotGreen on Wednesday February 14 2018, @08:19AM

      by RedIsNotGreen (2191) on Wednesday February 14 2018, @08:19AM (#637513) Homepage Journal

      Agree completely. After the hoops required became too much for me to jump through, I first experienced a form of withdrawal, but then stopped craving all that shitty media and never looked back. I still watch a movie occasionally, but I'm very picky about what I give my time and attention to.

  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday February 13 2018, @06:48PM (4 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @06:48PM (#637223)

    Netflix doesn't hate you, Netflix loves your monthly subscription fees - as long as you're willing to pay fees that give them a tidy profit margin above their cost of licensing/production. Judging by the amount of content that Netflix is producing these days (putting them in the 0 license fee per view column), they love their customers a lot.

    Now, do they care what their customers think, want, or feel? Why would they? Is there a serious (legal) competitor out there?

    --
    🌻🌻 [google.com]
    • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday February 13 2018, @06:56PM (2 children)

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @06:56PM (#637227) Journal

      And they make more money when people watch the content they produce.

      So yes, they care, because Capitalism.

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday February 13 2018, @07:57PM (1 child)

        by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @07:57PM (#637244)

        I'd argue that they only care when you stop subscribing. So, like Comcast, you may hate their guts, but if you don't hate their guts enough to pull the plug on the monthly transfer of funds, then "caring" isn't really important to their bottom line.

        --
        🌻🌻 [google.com]
        • (Score: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday February 13 2018, @11:08PM

          by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @11:08PM (#637326) Journal

          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.

    • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Wednesday February 14 2018, @11:43AM

      by Wootery (2341) on Wednesday February 14 2018, @11:43AM (#637559)

      Is there a serious (legal) competitor out there?

      Here in the UK, there are two: Amazon Prime Video, and Sky's Now TV. [nowtv.com]