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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: 3, Interesting) by NotSanguine on Tuesday February 13 2018, @11:17PM (2 children)

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Tuesday February 13 2018, @11:17PM (#637330) Homepage Journal

    I really don't get all of the hate that Netflix is getting.

    Personally, I don't hate Netflix. Mostly because I don't use their services. Anything they have, that I might be interested in consuming, I can get from other sources without having someone spy on my viewing habits.

    But I can certainly understand why folks might be unhappy with Netflix, given that they publicly mock their users [soylentnews.org]. If that's what they do publicly, one has to wonder what other, even nastier, stuff they do privately.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday February 14 2018, @04:22PM (1 child)

    by Freeman (732) on Wednesday February 14 2018, @04:22PM (#637643) Journal

    I highly doubt that Netflix's "spying on your viewing habits" is any different than any other streaming platform. The only way to keep others from "spying on your viewing habits" is to take it totally offline. Even then, you have Microsoft with their Telemetry data to contend with as well. Going down the rabbit hole far enough, you should be using cash only when you purchase that DVD. Preferably from a flea market, where they don't have video cameras on every aisle.

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    • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Wednesday February 14 2018, @05:31PM

      by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Wednesday February 14 2018, @05:31PM (#637694) Homepage Journal

      I highly doubt that Netflix's "spying on your viewing habits" is any different than any other streaming platform.

      Why would *anyone* want to use any of them?

      I'm not being snarky. I actually don't get it. Let's see. You "purchase" some content to consume. Once that content has been consumed, it's not yours to do with as you like (watch once restrictions and other DRM), maybe give it to a friend, make a backup copy, etc., etc., etc.

      It seems like a really crappy deal to me, and certainly not worth wasting my money on it.

      The only way to keep others from "spying on your viewing habits" is to take it totally offline.

      Bingo! You win a prize!

      Even then, you have Microsoft with their Telemetry data to contend with as well.

      That presupposes that you use Microsoft products and/or don't know how to block that network traffic.

      Going down the rabbit hole far enough, you should be using cash only when you purchase that DVD. Preferably from a flea market, where they don't have video cameras on every aisle.

      Who says I *purchase* anything? What's more, whether it's a store, a flea market or other retailer (even an online one), they have no idea whether I watch that content every day, give it to someone as a gag gift or use it for target practice. And even if an online retailer attempts to spam me based on my purchases, I use unique email addresses for everyone. If I don't like what they're sending me, that particular email address suddenly isn't a valid email address any more.

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