Your only solution appears to be to tough it out until it gets patched. :/
Your call on whether you want to tough it out using Chrome or switching to some other browser.
Although, in retrospect, the people who access this netflix account already know that I watch magical girl shows. What's one more girly cartoon at this point?
It's looking like it's a pretty common problem and there currently isn't a permanent solution
Suggestion I saw was to kill all the chrome processes in the task manager and restarting. That'll fix chrome for the session.
first world problem: want to watch mlp on netflix, don't want other people on the account to be able to look at recently watched and infer that I've been watching mlp