Yeah, I'm not installing DRM to watch anything on any service. I'll pirate, thanks very much.
yeah with this much effort folks could set up a jellyfin server and an entire piracy stack jfc
Absolutely insane, the level of technical prowess and how much time and effort went into making something like this work. Although, DRM is cancer and shouldn't exist, I can respect how this dude hacked it.
Reminding me why I don't nerd out nearly as hard as I used to. I'm way too lazy for this sort of thing now and there's only so much time in a day.
I can't say I'm excited for more DRM
Great piece, impressive work; Fedora now ships widevine by default - and it's not working anymore. I have a recent Asahi install, netflix won't play (used to work at the time of this blog post).
For me it works fine, but I guess that might be because I use the flatpak version of Firefox.
Nice blog. And cool footer banner.
Great read. Thank you for sharing.
Great article.
That was a fun read. Do recommend
Yeah i have a relative who wanted to switch to linux, due to windows being dog-shite, but she want's to have netflix with offline download feature.
Anyway it's a right pain in the arse.
I ended up going with the Waydroid emulator and using netflix android app.
It needs wayland so sadly I had to betray XFCE.
You can get it to work on the plain lineageOS waydroid image ( without gapps) - I think either via aurora app store or just sideload the apk into waydroid directly.
There's a waydroid utilities/helper script that installs widevine into the vitrual machine.
I got it working on stock debian+KDE(5), I'm not so sure about other distros but I assume GNOME would work fine also.
I looks like the downloading for offline view works, i'm not 100% sure whatll happen with disk space. And I didn't check the resolution available.
She's not actually switched over from windows yet, but we did a quick proof of concept.
I'm not sure if the waydroid route is easier or not but it's an option, and if you're wayland already that's one less hurdle.
UI through the emulator is s bit annoying, but manageable and you might be stuck with the android bar at the bottom so no true fullscreen.
Why is the preview for this an ad for ublock?
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