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Quick fixes: take a screenshot on your streaming video service
May 9, 2023
The issue
Streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney Plus, and HBO Max have chosen to protect their copyright by placing a black overlay over any screenshot made of one of their videos.
Quick fix
Shut off hardware acceleration on any Chromium-based browser.
The full story
Back in 2018, before I was on staff at The Verge, I was working as a freelance writer. Things had gotten a little slow when a friend sent me an ad from a production company looking for extras to play “Jewish Resort Guests” for an episode in the second season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. It sounded like fun, so I applied — and was offered two days of work in two separate scenes.
Cut to today. Recently, I was telling the story, and a friend asked if I had…