This cool. I did this exact thing in 2013 with DistanceFlix.com
Show HN: I made an extension to watch Netflix films with screenplays in sync
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#42This is great! Also check out LanguageLearningWithNetflix [0] which lets you watch videos with two subs in different languages, displays the subs as HTML so select/copy/define will work (and it has a built-in dictionary too). It also allows you to quickly jump to the beginning of each sentence so you can hear it multiple times, which helps improve your listening skills. For me, it has been a fun way to improve my Ger…
Thanks for the kind words. :)
Re: Show HN: I made an extension to watch Netflix films with screenplays in sync
#43Site is flagged from work PC
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#44Nicely implemented, you just need to recruit people to add more movies!
Re: Show HN: I made an extension to watch Netflix films with screenplays in sync
#45Very cool. I have been fascinated by this whole area of what I call “media stapling” since I spent about two years obsessively watching the Big Lebowski as a stress reliever. This film has no commentary track so people have recorded their own and you have to sort of just manually sync up the mp3. I also do a lot of interview transcription where text is stapled to audio. Anyway I see you have a comment here where you…
Sounds like Rifftrax, the successor to Mystery science Theater 3000
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#46I've seen plugins like this from time to time and I always wonder to what extent using them with a secured service (like Netflix etc) means that you've opened yourself up to them doing all sorts of things with your account. You need to login and once that's done the plugin code effectively acts as you doesn't it?
I'm guessing there are Chrome/FF protections on the password field, but if the plugin can do anything on a site, might it not draw their own fake password box on top of the real one?
I'm certainly not suggesting this is done by this author and I applaud the creation of the tool, but I'd be interested to hear opinions as to whether my interpretation above is correct or if I'm overly cautious/overlooking something.
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#47I've seen plugins like this from time to time and I always wonder to what extent using them with a secured service (like Netflix etc) means that you've opened yourself up to them doing all sorts of things with your account. You need to login and once that's done the plugin code effectively acts as you doesn't it? I'm guessing there are Chrome/FF protections on the password field, but if the plugin can do anything on…
I am curious too. I wonder what are the limits of an extension.
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#48Very interesting! Fun tidbit: for TV actors, regularly reading pilot scripts and then watching the produced pilot for comparison is a huge common educational technique. You get to imagine what kind of acting and directorial choices you'd make, and then see what was actually done. Often times you'll realize you had totally misinterpreted what a scene was even about. It's also fun to see how every script is filled with…
I think in a similar way this could also lower the barrier of entry into screenwriting.
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#49I've seen plugins like this from time to time and I always wonder to what extent using them with a secured service (like Netflix etc) means that you've opened yourself up to them doing all sorts of things with your account. You need to login and once that's done the plugin code effectively acts as you doesn't it? I'm guessing there are Chrome/FF protections on the password field, but if the plugin can do anything on…
I mean, unsurprisingly, it looks like it requests permissions to execute arbitrary code on your behalf on netflix.com. So yeah, it can do... a lot. It could, for example, click the logout button on your behalf, wait for you to log back in again and keylog your password when you do (there aren't any special protections there -- you can access it like any other field from privileged JS, and other extensions like password managers depend on this being the case), then use that to, in the background, change your password and recovery email, and then log you back out again. Any use of Chrome extensions that can execute scripts requires some degree of trust, for better or for worse.
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#50As I checked the demo video and read the screenplay, I could actually imagine the shots, camera angle - the images basically appeared in my head with Tom Holland in them (without actually playing the video or remembering the movie). This is very interesting.