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• naeap@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “technical reasons”

  Wasn’t this just about DRM?

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  • klu9@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    IIRC it was something to do with the difficulty of getting the browser to use hardware acceleration/GPU in the countless variations of Linux, to the point where they don’t even bother trying because of the infinitesimally small market share of each distro.

    But I’m not 100% sure of that.

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• kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think 4K is only available on Edge on Windows for Netflix. I never bothered with 4K since that’s above and beyond my device’s native resolution but I didn’t have too positive a experience with Netflix, IMO.

  I just want to watch something in full HD without intermittent streaming or buffering. Legal streaming services including Netflix treat one like a criminal by forcing them to watch in a Web browser with constant Internet connectivity forced upon them. I can use keyboard shortcuts to increase playback speed by 0.1x each time in mpv, does Netflix allow me to do the same? No, instead it gives me a dusty experience.

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  • klu9@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Back when I used to watch Netflix in a web browser, I had a browser extension that gave me lots of different capabilities, including all kinds of playback speeds.

    I can’t remember the name of the extension I used then, but I see there are still plenty of extensions available. addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/search/?q=netfli…

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