Because, fuck you, that’s why. I’m sure they will re-introduce the feature behind a paywall soon.
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Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones
9point6@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Lol why?
Genuinely seems pretty arbitrary given you need to use their app to start the cast anyway
watson@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
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.
watson@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Yikes. You know, I just in comfort the “pay for ad free” sales pitch for renewing my Amazon subscription. Shit bags.
toynbee@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
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.
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
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???atrielienz@lemmy.world 10 hours 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.
Zak@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
The fact that casting to older devices is allowed on the expensive plan but not the ad-supported one offers a clue.