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How Netflix Accurately Attributes eBPF Flow Logs

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160 points simplesort | 3 comments | 08 Apr 25 18:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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butlike ◴[08 Apr 25 19:42 UTC] No.43625701[source]▶
All that logging and they cant figure out why people are going to other streaming services
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ASalazarMX ◴[08 Apr 25 19:50 UTC] No.43625773[source]▶
Despite their awful UX, I'm always impressed with how reliable their service is, technically speaking. Video is always good and responsive even on less-than-stellar connections, you can leave a show paused for hours, and resume it almost instantly. Their fast.com speed test is always much faster than your regular internet access, I guess thanks to their Open Connect Appliances.

It must be great to work for them in infrastructure and backends.

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1. yuters ◴[08 Apr 25 20:32 UTC] No.43626160[source]▶
I have an old fire tv and never tried to stop automatic updates on it, it has become so slow and unresponsive that I'm barely able to switch inputs to use something else. Netflix is the only app that still works on that tv.
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2. ciupicri ◴[08 Apr 25 23:44 UTC] No.43627557[source]▶
I also have an old TV and guess what? Netflix stopped working last year. The application is not supported anymore. Beats me why.
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3. acdha ◴[08 Apr 25 23:49 UTC] No.43627583[source]▶
Often it’s CA certificates expiring. My old Toshiba had app rot set in like that, where after about 5 years none of the built in apps worked any more and the errors appeared to be TLS related. I suspect that was due to pinned certs to prevent MITM pirating.