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The link says I can't use it because it's a Chrome app, which, as far as I know, is nothing more than a website artificially constrained so that I can't use it on an iPad or any browser that is not Chrome.

This seems worse than Flash websites, what are the advantages for developers or users? They are built using web technologies anyway, why restrict your audience?

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It's a browser extension that modifies the netflix page in-browser. There is a difference between Chrome extensions and Chrome apps, extensions run in the background and usually provide an icon with information or modify pages or perform some resident task. The apps are, somewhat as you say, a glorified webpage making use of special chrome APIs [1] to offer functionality that is not possible on regular web pages.

[1]: http://developer.chrome.com/apps/api_index.html

I see, thanks. Just a very poor error message then.

If you can think of an easier way to hack Netflix without an API key (which they don't give out anymore), I'd love to hear it!

Don't worry, this is just the start. Big things have small beginnings.

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