torbox + stremio ftw
People still using Netflix and not torrenting everything?
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).
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.
But how much does it earn them back? Pennies? Doesn’t matter, it’s worth it to them. Even if USA is ending production and Canada stopped years ago.
💩
Shits coming more and more full circle. Netflix peaked around covid, then enshitification has just intensified since.
It peaked around 2015 or so and has been on a downward spiral 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.
I spent too muchtime trying to figure out why they would do casting (like in casting actors for their shows) from a phone.
Corporate Execs: “How can we enshitify this service even more?”
“i know let’s reboot temu the voice and fill it with ads and d-list celebrities!”
Don’t give them ideas… Not that I care, I’m not subbed to this shit.
oh believe me i couldn’t make it up if i tried: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24r8eieXLj0
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
Yeah, that’s a good one. Forcing an account to be setup on the TV. We do that all the time at our folks.
No problem. I already killed having a Netflix account - too American.
I hope more and more people cancel their netflix subscriptions, then either they change back to when it was good, or die.
I’d love to cancel mine but I did that already in 2015 lol
Good.
They die anyway, they’re surviving on momentum, not on being the genuinely great service that’s actually better than pirating.
The streaming industry is doomed to fail anyway.
I hope so.
That’s fine, for a everything else there is jellyfin
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.
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…
Plex is already starting to add subscriptions for BS reasons.
I bought my Lifetime license more than 10 years ago… doesn’t mean they can’t rug pull tho 😬
