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Reebles on Oct 10, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Watch Netflix in Ubuntu today

Its HTML5 DRM built into Chrome. Its actually worked for ~a month in Chrome for Linux if you just spoofed the user-agent string to Windows, absurdly. The only thing really prompting this announcement is that Netflix is no longer blocking Linux user-agents.

It only works in Chrome at the moment, as Firefox does not support the required DRM.

sejje on Oct 10, 2014 [–]

> The only thing really prompting this announcement is that Netflix is no longer blocking Linux user-agents.

And, presumably, that they didn't announce it a month ago.

I had no idea.

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