Comment on Google kills Chromecast, replaces it with Apple TV and Roku Ultra competitor

• alekwithak@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yes but they discontinued them in favor of Google TV, and they also heavily nerfed the capabilities by putting Google TV apps on there. For instance I now often have to pull out the virtual remote in the YouTube app to make a pop-up go away so I can watch the YouTube video I cast.

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  • Albbi@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Try out Smarttubenext. Made watching YouTube on my chromecast with Google TV enjoyable again.

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    • alekwithak@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’ll check it out, thanks!

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  • pixxelkick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I own multiple gens of Chromecasts from gen 1 to to CCwGTV

    I have no idea wtf you are talking about.

    I click cast, I click the device I’m casting to, it works, never had this issue on any of my devices abd all of them are set to auto update and afaik running latest versions.

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    • alekwithak@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s fantastic for you, but a quick Google search will bring up plenty of articles and reddit threads of people bitching about this and other ways the Chromecast has been broken over the years.

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      • pixxelkick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I have no idea what people are fucking up tbh.

        It’s 2 button clicks to cast stuff, I just went and sanity checked.

        The internet is full of disinformation and idiots though so I usually just assume people are the issue, when I have the same hardware and zero issues.

        I don’t think chromecasts have even gotten any kind of major change updates in ages so it’s bizarre for it to change behavior.

        I’m gonna just keep going with “people are dumb” until someone posts some concrete example (IE an actual video) of wtf their issue is.

        The chromecast is designed so simply though that I can’t imagine wtf people are fucking up.

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Mine still worked fine, the last time I checked.

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    • alekwithak@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I have five from multiple generations, so I’m very aware. They changed this functionality on all of them. I never said they didn’t still work, and I gave a clear example of how the functionality is being nerfed.

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      • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        They haven’t changed the functionality on mine as far as I’ve noticed. It’s still a cheap dongle that people can use to quickly share media to the screen. Is that not what you wanted?

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• criitz@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They don’t make those anymore, I think

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