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: 5, Interesting) by ledow on Tuesday February 13 2018, @04:08PM (3 children)
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)
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
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
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.