Going to give a guess as to more pragmatic reason this came about: they don't have a requirement or test for it.
Some engineer was asked to make a feature. That feature happened to break 3rd party seeking. It probably wasn't intentional, just incidental.
Because they have no internal requirement to support this, nor anyone/anything testing for it, it silently broke.
It was probably not malicious, even if it feels like a step backwards to this extension developer.
Whether it _should_ be fixed of course, is a different matter, but when I see statements like "DRM vendors REALLY want you to buy a smart TV"[1] I frown, as it is contains an assumption of intent that I suspect isn't there.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28896614
Edit: The title of the article (and original title here) is "Netflix's new player is an open web nightmare". My response is written in response to this sort of inflammatory language.
Some engineer was asked to make a feature. That feature happened to break 3rd party seeking. It probably wasn't intentional, just incidental.
Because they have no internal requirement to support this, nor anyone/anything testing for it, it silently broke.
It was probably not malicious, even if it feels like a step backwards to this extension developer.
Whether it _should_ be fixed of course, is a different matter, but when I see statements like "DRM vendors REALLY want you to buy a smart TV"[1] I frown, as it is contains an assumption of intent that I suspect isn't there.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28896614
Edit: The title of the article (and original title here) is "Netflix's new player is an open web nightmare". My response is written in response to this sort of inflammatory language.