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> This should be alarming to anyone with a stake in content "protection". Look how many hoops I had to jump through just to legally watch Netflix as a paying customer!

This tells me I should just stay on macOS or Windows rather than go on a Safari hunt for getting Netflix working on a ARM Linux machine.

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The browser compatability is still a bit of a mess on those OSes. The only way to get the full resolution on MacOS is to use some specific combinations of Safari and MacOS versions. If youre using OSX or using Chrome/FF you're limited to 720p

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742

Pirates meanwhile have no issues...

Resolution:

Google Chrome

Up to 720p on Windows, Mac, and Linux

Up to 1080p on Chrome OS

Microsoft Edge up to 4K*

Mozilla Firefox up to 720p

Opera up to 720p

Safari

Up to 4K on macOS 11.0 or later

Up to 1080p on macOS 10.11 through 10.15

*Streaming in 4K requires an HDCP 2.2 compliant connection to a 4K capable display, Intel's 7th generation Core CPU, and the latest Windows updates. Check with the manufacturer of your system to verify specifications.

^ is this the lawyers or the programmers' doing?

You can get 1080p with a browser extension that forces it.

The support will get better over time. 10 years ago I couldn't watch any streaming services on Linux with Firefox or Chrome. There was a brief period where streaming services were still using flash so you could sideload the flash player onto Firefox but that didn't last long. Now I run Pop!_OS 22.04 with an Nvidia GPU and I can play almost all my DRM content including Windows games on Steam. While I still experience awful bugs that I wouldn't have otherwise experienced on Windows or macOS I can finally daily Linux desktop.

”Hacker”news in 2023 ;-)

You wouldn't have to anymore thanks to this work. You can just install the necessary package now.

Or just pirate it and get DRM free 4k video basically as soon as it is released.

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