{"id":325,"date":"2007-07-25T11:55:53","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T11:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntucat.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/25\/netflixs-new-feature-screws-mac-and-linux\/"},"modified":"2010-02-03T18:26:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T22:26:26","slug":"netflixs-new-feature-screws-mac-and-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/netflixs-new-feature-screws-mac-and-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix&#8217;s new feature screws Mac and Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This doesn&#8217;t happen very frequently to us. Our bank is Mac- and Linux-friendly. Pretty much anything we use these days is Mac- and Linux-friendly. <\/p>\n<p> Up until today, Netflix was <i>also<\/i> Mac- and Linux-friendly. I just got an email from them telling me <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Your $____ plan not only gives you 3 DVDs out at-a-time but you can also watch 17 hours of movies and TV episodes instantly on your PC each month &#8211; for no additional charge. <\/p>\n<p> Check it out: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.com\/WatchNow?nfso=61846154&amp;\">www.netflix.com\/WatchNow<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Sounds good, right? Then I log into my Netflix account and see that my operating system is not compatible. When I click for more details, I get this: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img479.imageshack.us\/my.php?image=netflixwindowsonlyja6.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img479.imageshack.us\/img479\/4435\/netflixwindowsonlyja6.th.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Thanks, Netflix. My wife is a Mac user who uses Camino. I&#8217;m a Ubuntu user who uses Firefox. The <i>User Agent Switcher<\/i> extension didn&#8217;t even cut it. Netflix was having none of this. Why? Why Windows Service Pack 2 with Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player? Who comes up with these ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This doesn&#8217;t happen very frequently to us. Our bank is Mac- and Linux-friendly. Pretty much anything we use these days is Mac- and Linux-friendly. Up until today, Netflix was also Mac- and Linux-friendly. I just got an email from them telling me Your $____ plan not only gives you 3 DVDs out at-a-time but you&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/netflixs-new-feature-screws-mac-and-linux\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Netflix&#8217;s new feature screws Mac and Linux<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-and-mac-os-x","category-linux","category-ubuntu","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/1892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}