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by margaretdouglas 1709 days ago
The issue isn't that the testing is challenging. The ask here is Netflix covers all third-party Chrome plugins that manipulate the playback experience. Is it really Netflix's job to ensure all changes are compatible with third party tools like the one linked here, or others like Language Reactor?
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If they wanted to, it wouldn't be much work for them to provide a stable API for such tools. Mostly it would involve making certain functions/properties that are internal to their modules/closures available on a global object. For Language Reactor, it would be helpful to have a handful of stable classes or ids on different HTML elements, and an email when major changes are incoming. Even just to have access to the new code early on in the rollout would be nice. There is a frantic two weeks every year where LR is breaking for users and we can't debug, because we don't have the new code yet.