Netflix no longer compatible with Brave browser in 2024?

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@theycallmejones this would be because of Brave’s fingerprint and tracking protection when you have Shields on. It randomizes things between sessions and can make it appear like different devices. All comes down to your settings on different sites and everything.

Also, if you login on different profiles or like in private mode, it might say it doesn’t recognize you. This is the same reason, it’s not holding your cookies and might have some differences compared to what they are normally looking at.

Just a FYI, the reason why places will say this is that they have a list of “compatible browsers.” What this means is that their developers or a 3rd party tested the website on each of the browsers and they worked. There are tons of browsers out there and they can’t/won’t test on all. Usually they just stick to the big competitors, which are Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari overall.

Since they likely didn’t test on Brave, they would say it’s not a compatible browser.

I want you to try a few things. Some is repeating, but only because of prior steps. Just do me a favor and work through things in order. Try each step, then if it doesn’t resolve after that step, go to the next. If any step allows things to work right, then you can stop there. Just let me know the results of each attempt.

  1. Is Brave updated? (you didn’t share which OS or version of Brave you’re using). If not, update it. And regardless, might be helpful if you do at least let us know which versions of each you’re using.

  2. Go to brave://components and make sure to try to update everything there

  3. Toggle Widevine. You can go to Settings → Extensions or just type in brave://settings/extensions to get to it. If it was already enabled, disable it and exit Brave completely. Then open Brave and enable Widevine again and go back to Netflix.

  4. Disable Shields

  5. Try in private window.

  6. Open in a new profile (Hamburger menu → More Tools → Add new profile). This will create a second profile in your browser that pretty much is using default settings and no extensions. Test on this without changing anything.

  7. Download Brave Beta or Brave Nightly and see if you have any luck there.

It should resolve in one of those steps. Which step(s) you see improvement can help narrow down to what the issue might be.

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