Thanks a bunch, Netflix – its Windows app is about to lose downloads
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But ad-supported plans will now be catered for

Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away.

Netflix must realize that it’s a huge frustration for people who relied on offline downloads to watch content without internet access: on planes, trains, and campsites, and anywhere else where Wi-Fi is unavailable or unreliable.

There’s a small chance that Netflix will change its mind if it gets enough complaints, but the streaming service seems determined to add as many money-making features as possible, while taking away genuinely useful ones.

    • SaltySalamander@fedia.io
      1·
      5 months ago

      Only very rarely, and usually it’s a rooted nVidia Shield with a cheap HDMI splitter that strips HDCP from the signal. And those aren’t called WEB-DLs, they’re Webrips. WEB-DLs are downloaded directly from the source.

      • CriticalMiss@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        They buy cheap android tv boxes and get the widevine decryption keys off them, then use them to web dl directly from the source

      • CriticalMiss@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        6 months ago

        Unless you know exactly what you’re doing, you’ll have to spend a lot of money on trial and error because Google will keep nulling your widevine keys.