Comment on Netflix accidentally made its content show up in the Apple TV app

roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• natecox@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Apple provides a system for apps to expose their shows to the TV app; effectively every app other than Netflix uses that system but Netflix intentionally removed themselves from it.

  Which effectively removed Netflix from my viewing habits because I use the TV app to manage all of my other apps/subscriptions, and because Netflix doesn’t show up I never consume their content. I still think it was a really stupid move on the part of Netflix.

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  • Railcar8095@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Did you unsubscribe from Netflix? If you pay and don’t watch, that’s actually a good deal for Netflix.

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  • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    They pulled that same shit on Android as well. But I think they are integrated back in on the current generation of it.

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    • natecox@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’m not surprised. The argument at the time was that they needed users to be inside their own app and anything less was unacceptable.

      Gotta gobble up dem user metrics, I guess.

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    • Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Netflix is like the only one on Android I have that ISN’T opt-ed out.

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      • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        You have to enable each service on Android TV. Most streaming services are on there.

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    • Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Are you talking about the recommendations feature the home screen has or is there something better else that I don’t know about?

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  • credo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Except Apple doesn’t auto-log-out people in multi-user homes, kinda makes it a PITA to do so, and forces you to have one main account… that then becomes the nexus for all content the users/family watch. So (a) that feed is absolutely useless in these homes and (b) some people don’t want their netflix queue showing up for everyone to see (the kids, for example).

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    • vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      In my experience the last accessed account within a streaming service is what shows.

      Source: I’ve been using Apple TV for years.

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      • credo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yes, that doesn’t conflict with what I said above. There are also multiple streaming services, so anyone of them could have had any one of the apple tv users as their last login.

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    • mbirth@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Or, you know, you could just use Apple’s feature and switch to a different Apple TV (device) user account? This should also switch to whatever accounts that user was logged in to in all related services.

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    • natecox@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I have been using a single Apple TV in a multi-user home for many years, I think you’re overselling the difficulty here. Virtually every app will just ask you what user profile you want to use when the app opens; and when you’re done, closing the app is simple.

      It’s far more obnoxious to need to browse every single app for their content rather than having a single unified watch list and closing an app when you’re done.

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      • credo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        What are you even talking about?? This entire thread- no post- is about apple showing the content of the apps in the main feed?

        Are you lost? This discussion has nothing to do with login in or out of specific apps.

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• Matt@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  They do, but apps can integrate their content with the TV app without subscriptions being controlled by Apple as well.

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  • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ahh, so this must be on apple devices only.

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