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
Yup. Limitation just 'cause. Capitalism at work.
This is gross. This costs them nothing. Enshittification manifest
It costs them more to add config to disable on different plans. So dumb.
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Shits coming more and more full circle. Netflix peaked around covid, then enshitification has just intensified since.
Oh wow really? Casting kinda sucked anyways. Why I moved away from Chromecast after so many issues trying to pause or reconnect to it
That might be true, but it’s still an enshittification that isn’t excusable.
Corporate Execs: “How can we enshitify this service even more?”
When I read the headline without context, I thought casting directors were just casting actors unseen over the phone.
But this is worse.I suspect that casting might have been used by people to easily capture and share Netflix shows illegally, so they just shut it down.
This is the only way this makes sense to me. But I still hate it
No, apparently it’s just tied to premium subscription.
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.
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
I hope more and more people cancel their netflix subscriptions, then either they change back to when it was good, or die.
The streaming industry is doomed to fail anyway.
That’s fine, for a everything else there is jellyfin
Meanwhile I’m still able to cast anything from my Plex server 😏
Jellyfin too. How odd!
Just wait until the Plex execs learn about this…
Kodi with Elementum is better.
According to GitHub Elementum development has stopped.
But it still works.
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
