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