I just figured out how you can do co-watching sessions of ANY video online, and you speak to each other too.

The other person doesn't even need any additional account to your fav streaming service

👇🏼
Step 1: Setup a zoom call with screensharing. Make sure to tick "Optimize Screen Share for Video Clips"
Get a tool like Loopback rogueamoeba.com/loopback/

Route your browser and mic sound to one channel and only your browser sound on a separate channel as your monitor. Select your headphones (in my case "Dixie Dewdrop") as the monitor device.
Go to zoom settings and set your microphone to being "Loopback Audio"
That's it. When you now run a video and screen-share, both you and your friend(s) can see and listen to the same stream, and you still can talk to each other!

Quality and lag seems to be pretty good in first tests.

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