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This is not only Netflix. French media do the same using exactly the same Widevine DRM, which simply doesn't work on Firefox. My sister couldn't watch some replays of her shows on my laptop because she couldn't figure out why it wouldn't work

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Wait... I first heard of widevine last week when I tried watching netflix on my work's laptop (debian), using firefox. It didn't work so I googled, found out about widevine and special settings. I tweaked some chrome/chromium parameters but it didn't work.

All this in a private window.

Once I used Netflix in a normal window (Firefox or chromium) it worked.

Worth a try ?

I don't think Firefox and Chrome run extensions/plugins in private windows without you first allowing them to run. That might be the case here.

Widevine is more or less the "industry standard" for in-browser video DRM. Basically everyone uses it.

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