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: 2) by NotSanguine on Wednesday February 14 2018, @05:31PM
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.
Bingo! You win a prize!
That presupposes that you use Microsoft products and/or don't know how to block that network traffic.
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.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr