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Netflix kills casting from phones (www.theverge.com)
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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

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[–] 55 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Lol why?

Genuinely seems pretty arbitrary given you need to use their app to start the cast anyway

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  • [–] 41 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    Because fuck you, that’s why. I’m sure they will re-introduce the feature behind a paywall soon.

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    Once you tell a company that you are willing to pay for something more than once, prepare to get fucked, because that’s all you’re gonna get. And not the fun kind.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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.

    Paywall already there. Excerpt taken from the linked article.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago*

    Yikes. You know, I just in comfort the “pay for ad free” sales pitch for renewing my Amazon subscription. Shit bags.

    Edit: i’m only subscribed to Amazon because I live in a food desert, and it’s the only way I can get groceries

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Over the last weekend I was surprised to learn that you can't stream from the mobile web interface of at least some, if not most, of the streaming apps.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Use desktop mode on the broswer and then just use regular screen sharing. Its how I block ads on prime video since i can still use ad block on firefox and just stream to my tv instead of using the native app on the tv with ads. I assume the same thing will work with Netflix as well. Worst case if you have a samsung device use dex to stream the device to the tv open a browser with ad block and then watch the show. Or alternarively just pirate the content and forget about the shitty streaming services

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I was gonna say this could be a way to make account sharing more annoying, so say if you go to a friend's house and you gotta fiddle to log in with the remote instead of picking up your phone and starting a cast they might be motivated to get their own subscription.
    But it seems you can still log into an account by scanning a QR Code, so... ehh????

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    My understanding is they already made it more annoying. Your devices have to connect to the home accounts "home" wifi within a certain amount of time or that device gets locked out.

    I quit Netflix when they announced the pilot program for removing account sharing in South America, and I stand by that decision to this day.

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