Elad Alfassa píše v Pá 07. 04. 2017 v 19:07 +0300: > Hi, > > Netflix have recently (and also, finally) started supporting Firefox > on Linux, which is great for Fedora users who want to watch Netflix > without having to install Chrome or Chromium. > > However, there's a catch: our default Firefox user agent is blocked > by Netflix. > If you try to use Firefox on Fedora to watch netflix, you'd get an > error message that silverlight is required. > > If you then change the user agent to "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; > rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0" (you can set > general.useragent.override in about:config) and try again, netflix > will work without any problem. > > I think we should fix this, because it's silly to force user to > install a non-default browser to do this kind of thing. > > There are two ways we could fix this: > > 1) Stop using a custom user agent. This also has the benefit of > making Fedora users a bit less trackable, but the downside of not > having a way to measure active Fedora users online (which is why the > custom one was re-introduced, iirc). > > 2) Someone with an official position within Fedora / Red Hat could > email Netflix and ask them to stop blocking our custom user agent. > > I think Netflix's rationale for blocking non-upstream user agents is > that their "help page" says "Supported on stable, official release > builds from Mozilla. Non-Mozilla builds are not supported.". > > Considering the fact that most Linux users (and especially Fedora > users) don't run the mozilla builds, and that Firefox in Fedora meets > all of mozilla's branding guidelines to be eligible for officially > calling itself Firefox, I think that limitation is silly, so we > probably should convince Netflix to change their user agent blocking > policy. > > _______________________________________________ > desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Hi Elad, we're aware of this issue. We're currently working on the solution #2. Netflix is not blocking non-upstream user agents, they're blocking Fedora specifically! Replace Fedora with a random string and it will work. This is strange and we wanna find out why they're doing it. Note that they do the same with Chrome where we have a Fedora user agent, too. The reason why it works is that we put a logic in the user agent extension which removes Fedora from the user agent for the netflix.com domain. We could do the same for Firefox, but I think it's better to solve this with Netflix. Jiri
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