Netflix kills casting from phones
Netflix kills casting from phones
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Casting support is still available on older Chromecast devices or TVs that support Google Cast natively, according to Netflix’s support page, but only for subscribers on pricier ad-free plans, which start from $17.99 per month. Netflix users with an ad-supported subscription ($7.99 per month) will be unable to cast from their phones even if they own legacy Chromecast devices.
Scummy
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Meanwhile I'm still able to cast anything from my Plex server 😏
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Jellyfin too. How odd!
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Just wait until the Plex execs learn about this...
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I bought my Lifetime license more than 10 years ago.. doesn't mean they can't rug pull tho 😬
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Plex is already starting to add subscriptions for BS reasons.
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That's fine, for a everything else there is jellyfin
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That's fine, for those that have media. Most people don't, and don't want to. I use Plex, have to look at jelly fin.
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No problem. I already killed having a Netflix account - too American.
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It was already half-dead. Cheapest subscription already had it disabled. I know cause my wife (no idea why) pays for netflix cheapest subscription and she cant use her account on any devices but one or else it will not play anything. Casting didnt work cause this somehow counts as "another device"... Tested on Chromecast 2
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Teach her the wonders of Jellyfin and Stremio
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I run Jellyfin but we have already seen 90% of it. I have managed to setup a fully automated Arr stack with Jellyseer but need to deploy rpi3 in my homeland that will act as a VPN so the country I am in wouldn't bite my ass with a huge fine for torrenting stuff.
Other than that, we do use Myflixer a ton. She, in fact, is primary user. Thing is, Myflixer is English and Netflix is in local language which even I find it being better for both of us since we are foreigners. This is the reason I have set an Arr stack so I can download movies in local language. But I have to figure out how to get in local private torrent trackers.
Also, I am watching my Jellyfin instance as I type this comment :)
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When I read the headline without context, I thought casting directors were just casting actors unseen over the phone.
But this is worse.
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I hope more and more people cancel their netflix subscriptions, then either they change back to when it was good, or die.
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The streaming industry is doomed to fail anyway.
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I hope so.
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I'd love to cancel mine but I did that already in 2015 lol
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Good.
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They die anyway, they're surviving on momentum, not on being the genuinely great service that's actually better than pirating.
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Shits coming more and more full circle. Netflix peaked around covid, then enshitification has just intensified since.
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It peaked around 2015 or so and has been on a downward spiral since.
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People still using Netflix and not torrenting everything?
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💩
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I spent too muchtime trying to figure out why they would do casting (like in casting actors for their shows) from a phone.
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torbox + stremio ftw
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If I haven't cancelled Netflix already, I would right now. I cancelled Spotify for the same reason just last week (though in their case it might have been a mistake, but I don't really expect such mistakes after increasing the cost twice a year).
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Oh wow really? Casting kinda sucked anyways. Why I moved away from Chromecast after so many issues trying to pause or reconnect to it
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That might be true, but it's still an enshittification that isn't excusable.
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I suspect that casting might have been used by people to easily capture and share Netflix shows illegally, so they just shut it down.
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No, apparently it's just tied to premium subscription.
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No, not really. "Casting" through the netflix app basically just turns your phone into a remote for your TV. The TV still plays videos from Netflix directly, using the Netflix app (or website). Casting using Google or Apple's solution casts to a proprietary device with all the content protections functional, just like using the app on those devices.
The content protections are bypassed way easier on a computer by using the website and some black magic. The removal/paywalling of casting is purely removing convenience from the user that had barely any financial impact on the company.
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Account sharing = IE watching Netflix with the family over the holidays and just casting instead of having to have someone log in and use their authorized devices. This timing was intentional
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Yeah, that's a good one. Forcing an account to be setup on the TV. We do that all the time at our folks.
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This is the only way this makes sense to me. But I still hate it
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