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I concur. Google selectively blocks access for no temporary technical reason to a competitor out of spite or for profit. This is kind of hypocritical if you con
by eftychis 9y ago
I concur. Google selectively blocks access for no temporary technical reason to a competitor out of spite or for profit. This is kind of hypocritical if you consider at the same they fight against the net neutrality fiasco (it is a fiasco, yes, among other things). If ISPs get it their way and repeal net neutrality, they will effectively apply the same treatment and reasoning against us, citizens and consumers, and against Google. So I find the timing of this post to be ironic at best. Of course the latter case has greater impact, but Google strides towards that freedom of access violation here.
In a kind of similar tune:
Netflix some time now refuses to run on Firefox on non Windows/Mac OS platforms. They claimed originally DRM issues, which was not the case.
I am not sure if you can bypass the block in this case by altering the application's agent entry (which you can do in the case of netflix).
- andrewaylett 9y agoNetflix actually works fine now, and has for a few months.
- fernandotakai 9y agothe sad/bad part is that it's only 720p. 1080p only works on chrome on chromeos, edge and safari. while 4k only works on edge. https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742 https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742
- CaptSpify 9y agoIf by "fine", you mean in a limited capacity at best after you allow DRM to execute closed off code on your machine, then yes, it runs "fine".