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> for the privilege of installing spyware on your machine

Not sure about this. Firefox and Opera both support 720p.

But, because of their choices here - or the terms of the content deals they've signed, idk - Netflix doesn't get as much money from me as they could. 720p is not sufficiently better than 480p (to me) to warrant paying them for 'standard' service, let alone their premium tier at $20/mo. So I just get their basic service.

Their loss, really, although collectively the Linux customer base is probably tiny enough that it's inconsequential to them.



> Not sure about this. Firefox and Opera both support 720p.

Don't you have to enable widevine to get Netflix in Firefox?


Yes, good point, I don't typically think of that as spyware, but it is.




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