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- television@piefed.social
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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.
People still using Netflix and not torrenting everything?
torbox + stremio ftw
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…
I bought my Lifetime license more than 10 years ago… doesn’t mean they can’t rug pull tho 😬
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.
No problem. I already killed having a Netflix account - too American.
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
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.
I hope so.
I’d love to cancel mine but I did that already in 2015 lol
Good.
Shits coming more and more full circle. Netflix peaked around covid, then enshitification has just intensified since.
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.
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.
This is the only way this makes sense to me. But I still hate it
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.
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According to GitHub Elementum development has stopped.
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…until the next API change
