Ask HN: How to see Netflix in a browser in Android?

1 pointsposted 6 hours ago
by wanderingmind

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1 Comments

navjack27

5 hours ago

I'm not really sure why you would want that aside from curiosity. Going out of the app would as far as I understand limit your ability to watch Netflix at anything higher than 1080p (maybe 4K) and no HDR if the device in question has the capability. It's stupid DRM stuff but the best way to watch most streaming DRM content is on a trusted device through the app because that's the only way they allow it anymore for you to get the highest quality version of whatever is there. Can't even do it on a desktop computer running Windows 11 and an RTX 4090 in a web browser as far as I know but you could definitely do it on a Roku Smart TV from TCL from 2019 where the system on a chip seems like it shouldn't even be capable of decoding a 4K HEVC or AV1 HDR stream but hey this is the world we live in and I'm completely off topic to your question at this point.