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Re:Play Netflix on Linux with Firefox by simopaa on Thursday December 22, 2016 @03:56AM (#13235918)
I can confirm that this seems to work, although adding the spoofer somehow messed with the Netflix UI loading so that it loads maybe 1/10 previews and is otherwise all black..

Shame that it still requires spoofing the user agent. I would rather not fiddle around with that whenever I log in or out of Netflix, but would also like to send actual information to show that Firefox is being used..

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Re:Play Netflix on Linux with Firefox by JoshTriplett on Thursday December 22, 2016 @04:18AM (#13236013)
> Shame that it still requires spoofing the user agent. I would rather not fiddle around with that whenever I log in or out of Netflix,

Several Firefox extensions allow you to easily switch the User-Agent, and even set a per-site User-Agent string, so that you always use a given User-Agent for a given site.

> but would also like to send actual information to show that Firefox is being used..

If you really care, you could experiment with the accepted User-Agent strings, and see if you can add a "really Firefox" comment or similar without losing access.

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