If you’ve rooted your Android phone in order to gain access to more settings than the average user, you will no longer be able to grab Netflix’s app from Google Play, as the company is blocking downloads on such devices.
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 and those users will no longer see the Netflix app in the Play Store.
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This is too bad. I guest, people with rooted devices will be more likely to use video streaming apps which work on Rooted device.
Netflix is most likely blocking rooted devices to prevent people from downloading/saving their movies as a video file like MKV video, and sharing it on file sharing sites.
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 and those users will no longer see the Netflix app in the Play Store.
Read More
This is too bad. I guest, people with rooted devices will be more likely to use video streaming apps which work on Rooted device.
Netflix is most likely blocking rooted devices to prevent people from downloading/saving their movies as a video file like MKV video, and sharing it on file sharing sites.