Netflix is the number one legal choice for streaming series and movies. Its success has spread it across many platforms, but its "traditional" version in desktop browsers leaves room for optimization. Flix Plus is a Google Chrome extension that tweaks various aspects of the Netflix interface, including spoiler blocking and duplicate detection.
Despite the new restrictions placed on users with proxies and VPN services, Netflix still offers plenty of reasons to "cut the cord". Its popularity has forced other providers to compete with exclusive streaming content. Netflix is available on major operating systems, dedicated devices, smart TVs, and even game consoles, but what we're focusing on today is the desktop experience, specifically in Google Chrome.
The official Chrome extension store has tools aimed at optimizing Netflix in that browser, and one of them is Flix Plus, developed by the folks at Lifehacker. One of its most important functions is probably hiding spoilers that Netflix accidentally generates. A preview image or a too-accurate title in its description can reveal more than the user wants, and Flix Plus helps control that. It also adds external references like information from IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes, search buttons linked to other sites, a link to the official trailer (if it's a movie), and a button that starts playing a random episode.
Other elements in Flix Plus enable additional keyboard shortcuts, a "fade out" on those results that are duplicated, watched, or rated, and something as simple as clicking on a poster to get more details of a movie, instead of starting playback. The extension only fully activates once we log into Netflix, and although it was designed around the US edition of the service, it is very likely to work in other regions.
