Re: RFC: Can FreeBSD stream Netflix?

Hello Rick.

In freeBSD there are some special packages that will allow you to watch
Netflix using Chromium,but sometimes it does not work. Using a browser
extension that will lie about the user agent is not enough. Personally I
run Android X86 inside a bhyve vm and I can watch Netflix using the native
android app.

On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 1:52 AM Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
wrote:

> You can get brower extensions that will lie about the user agent to
> make it look like it basically any browser on any OS you want.
>
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM Rick Macklem <rick.macklem@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I'm not tinkering with NFS I'm just a dumbass user,
> > so here's a dumbass user question...
> >
> > The background (you can just skip to the question at the end
> > but maybe you'll find this useful.
> > I have two old Dell laptops (6420s) that I picked up used and
> > they've done ok, but both now have flakey hdds.
> >
> > #1 - hdd died completely, so I installed FreeBSD and it went
> >         pretty smoothly. It runs Xorg, KDE etc and works pretty well.
> >         But I can't get it to do one all important thing.
> >         Stream Netflix. (I've tried assorted browsers, but always get
> >         the "you should upgrade your browser" treatment.)
> >
> > #2 - Runs Win10 and does stream Netflix, but is throwing lots of
> >         hdd errors, so it only a matter of time before I'll need to
> >         replace the hdd. Once I do that, I have three choices:
> >         a) Install FreeBSD, but only if I can get it to stream Netflix.
> >         b) Install Linux. (Some posts claim Linux distros with up
> >             to date browsers can stream Netflix?)
> >         c) Install Win10 and run FreeBSD in a VM or dual boot it.
> >
> >         I'd prefer (a), which leads to the all important question...
> >
> > Is there someone out there that runs FreeBSD on a laptop or
> > desktop who can stream Netflix?
> > If you can answer "yes", can you recall how you installed it
> > to make this work?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any answers, rick
> >
>
>
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> Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org
>
>

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Mario.