Netflix
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With the variety of browsers now available (including from Android via Waydroid) is there any way to watch Netflix on a UBports device?
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@padraic It may take a bit of work if it can be done due to DRM. Netflix is funny on alternative browsers (that are not Chrome based or FF).
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Unfortunately none of those browsers have a working Widevine extension available for them yet, which is the DRM that Netflix needs to work. A few years back Netflix worked in Waydroid for me, but with changes made by them to their app this is no longer the case.
There was an attempt by Marius to make a UT native Widevine extension, which you can download from the Open Store at https://open-store.io/app/widenabler.mariogrip - but in my tests this doesn't work for Netflix.
Some other potential fixes for this issue can be found at
https://github.com/AsahiLinux/widevine-installer
https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/widevine-installer_0.0~git20240811.eab8c66-1.html
https://codeberg.org/mogwai/widevine- but all these possible fixes would need a maintainer to port it to UT first, and they might not necessarily fix the issue for it.
Best regards,
Steve Berson
