{"id":210696,"date":"2017-05-15T11:29:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T09:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=210696"},"modified":"2017-05-15T11:30:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T09:30:17","slug":"netflix-blocking-unlocked-and-rooted-android-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/210696-netflix-blocking-unlocked-and-rooted-android-devices.html","title":{"rendered":"Netflix blocking unlocked and rooted Android devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Google Play Store has listed the Netflix app for Android as incompatible for rooted and unlocked smartphones and other devices, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/2017\/05\/13\/netflix-confirms-blocking-rootedunlocked-devices-app-still-working-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android Police reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With our latest 5.0 release, we now fully rely on the Widevine DRM provided by Google; therefore, many devices that are not Google-certified or have been altered will no longer work with our latest app,&#8221; said Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>However, the report stated that\u00a0the app continued to work on devices where it was already installed.<\/p>\n<p>Android Police said it isn&#8217;t clear why the Play Store listing is blocked while the app itself continues to work normally.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/208458-netflix-refuses-to-pay-the-fpbs-r795000-licensing-fee.html\">Netflix refuses to pay the FPB&#8217;s R795,000 licensing fee<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Google Play Store has listed the Netflix app for Android as incompatible for rooted and unlocked smartphones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":202482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[397,2054,38978],"class_list":["post-210696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-android","tag-netflix","tag-root"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210726,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210696\/revisions\/210726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}