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   druck  wrote:   
   >   
   > I doubt if Netflix or any streaming service will work, as they require   
   > DRM features which aren't in Chromium. Google Chrome on my x86 Linux   
   > laptop is the only thing that will play services such as Netflix and   
   > Amazon Prime.   
   >   
   What's got me baffled is that YouTube and Netflix both worked quite well   
   until just a few days ago.   
      
   >   
   > I had problems with Chromium on my Pi 4Bs becoming unresponsive and not   
   > displaying the BBC news pages correctly. That was with the 32 bit   
   > variant of Bullseye. I did a semi-in-place upgrade to 64 bit, and the   
   > Chromium on that, even though it had the same version number, worked   
   > perfectly.   
   >   
   When first setting up a Pi4 I too had lots of trouble getting chromium   
   to work with YouTube and Netflix, solved largely with help from this   
   newsgroup. Since then YouTube has worked routinely and Netflix worked   
   when (infrequently) used.   
      
   YouTube is said to be obstructing ad blockers, but little has been said   
   about exactly how. It occurs to me that making desired content look like   
   advertising would be a very effective way to render ad blockers useless.   
      
      
   > If you are a Pi 4 or 5, I would recommend moving to the 64 bit version   
   > of the OS, as I suspect the 32 bit variants of heavy weight desktop   
   > apps, such as browsers, are not going get as much attention. Plus 64 bit   
   > is a bit faster, as long as you have plenty of memory, (don't try it on   
   > a 1MB 3B+).   
      
   Sorry I should have mentioned from the start that this is on a Pi5/64bit.   
   The problem extends to Firefox ESR, which behaves similarly to chromium:   
   It displays thumbnails, opens the video window, starts loading and stalls   
   with the counter not advancing. I can manually move the playback point   
   and the counter moves but the video will not play. In firefox I was given   
   a sign-in window eventually, in chromium there's a "...restart your device"   
   prompt but nothing about signing up.   
      
   I haven't rebooted the system in a while, just installed updates whenever   
   they're announced. Will the software update utility prompt for a reboot   
   if it's necessary? I'd expect that to happen only after a kernel update.   
      
   Thanks for writing,   
      
   bob prohaska   
      
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