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+Chrome extension for adding IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes ratings to watchever
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+* * * Neither this extension, nor its author is in any way affiliated with Netflix company. * * *
+Description
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+This extension seamlessly adds the ratings from Rotten Tomatoes into the Netflix web interface. Each movie and series detail page gets two more rating rows (if the movie/series can be found in IMDb).
+Install
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+History
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+    0.3 (2016-08-28): initial public version
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+Acknowledgements
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+The ratings for Netflix extension uses the Open Movie Database API by Brian Fritz (http://www.omdbapi.com/) for querying IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes. Thanks Brian!
+License
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+MIT