Article Tldr Netflix ends support for casting from newer devices.
It's crazy that even free streaming websites have better features than a paid Netflix subscription. I think Netflix did this to close the loophole on password sharing.
What other features do you predict Netflix will nuke next? Will the continuing enshittification push subscribers away or won't it matter? Why do you think Netflix ended phone casting?
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I think the next step will be penalties for unsubscribing like cable. Maybe they’ll do contracts or something like that. Too many people play the subscribe a month, binge a few shows then move on to another streamer game.
Yep i think thats the likely the next step
It’s the only thing left. I can picture them trying to make it look positive like lock into a price now.
There is more left. Soon they will make it so you can watch only certain content on certain days. So that people can’t watch something at their friends’ place. They are never going to stop as long as their profits keep going up.
They’ll divide content into various packages. They’ll probably call them something like “channels” and assign them names like History, Comedy, Cartoon, Food, Travel, Entertainment!, or give major producers like Fox or ABC their own dedicated section.
Then they’ll bundle them into various packages, locking some behind further paywalls.
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Yeah, Amazon Prime is doing that now. more than half of the ‘suggested’ items on the home feed recently are ones only available with add on subscriptions you don’t have or extra one time rental fees. They’re burying most of what’s included in the package to hook you on buying more through them. (Stars, Cinemax, HBO, live sports etc) 🙄.
Primes been doing this for years actually, I like a lot of the shows they make but they easily have the worst structure. Like you said the homepage is beyond cluttered with shows they don’t have & to make it worse they make it an extreme hassle just to link services you already own to their product.
For example the Starz app runs like complete shit on the fire stick, the only way to watch any shows is through Amazon. The thing is that they made if impossible to link a pre existing account, they’re literally forcing you to buy a bundle that includes Starz through them. The firestick set up is so inconvenient without having Amazon to the point its obvious it was by design
Yeah because that home screen exists on the fire stick whether you pay for prime or not. There is a Prime option that will only show Prime available movies & shows. Same with Apple. Most is Apple content, but unless you specifically select AppleTV only, it'll show you rental or purchase options
We got rid of cable to subscribe to a million streaming services for the same price as cable 😂
Then they'll just make it so you have to be watching at a certain time for each show...
Interesting idea - like the pendulum swinging back to 1977. “Happy Days” at 7:00PM, followed by “Laverne and Shirley”.
Like Sky and BT TV have always done in the UK. Streaming is now almost as bad as they are.
They are already doing that.
https://nofilmschool.com/netflix-tier-limits-access
they will put a watch time limit with an excuse such as "so kids dont watch all day long" type shit like really old gizmos that would cut off the power to the console so they couldnt play all day long
Do you think they'll profits will go up? I can't imagine people wanting to stay after this.
Or a timer. 10 hours a month or something. Similar to token-based subscriptions.
Imagine the warning while in the middle of an episode.
"Your time is up. You've spent 10 of your 10 hours viewing credits for this month. Your next 10 hours will be available in 23 days.
Buy more time [ here ] or upgrade to [ pro ] and get 20 hours a month"
Or pro plus to get 28 hours a month. Good value.
NowTV are already doing this in the UK.
12 month contract gets you a cheaper monthly price. I only have it for SkySports and even then only for F1, I just can't find a reliable alternative.
Alternatives only come when you speak with your wallet a little louder. FOMO is the capitalist trap.
Too many people don’t understand this. Even if you have to sacrifice watching certain content
A subscription to F1 TV is not too difficult to set up. I paid £32 for an annual subscription.
This isnt new most things are cheaper when you buy in bulk. Food, car insurance, and even subscription services.
There are solid alternatives out there just FYI For NowTV and sky, just requires a dodgy box and a subscription.
Some of the providers provide 'multi-room' so you can have a subscription at home and a mobile device for on to the go.
All the more reason I wouldn't get Netflix
Why has it become so Draconian? Where is all this confidence from? Folk will just move away. It’s a very fickle market. It’s like corporate forgot why streaming is successful in the first place. Convenience
Money. It’s always about money.
Because they killed password sharing and got rewarded for it. Other Services followed.
Now they're killing casting to drive up revenue again. If successful other Services will follow.
And so the cycle of enshitification continues.
They are not going to win this
Draconian is always the plan.
Like Ah-dobee (mentioning them by name is a no-no here due to DMCA) is now. They won’t even let me cancel my student subscription. I have 3 months left and then I’m switching fully to Affinity.
The trick with them is to switch to a new billing plan that has a 14 day cooling off period, then cancel your subscription. I got caught with that this year, and will never pay for their products again. Was very thankful that switching plans worked. Absolutely predatory company.
I agree but I think they will phase it in over a few years like there will be a monthly and a yearly option, and the yearly will be cheap enough for most people to go for it then the monthly will become 3 month minimum, etc.
More likely bundled in with a price increase I think. Prices moving up to $40/month, or you can keep paying $30 by locking in an annual contract with a $120 cancelation fee
Yeah could be that too
Noticed a lot of streaming services now when releasing a show will do an episode a week. Stops people just paying for a month then bingeing a show. Now how to have a subscription for 2/3 months
Just wait until the end od the season, subscribe for the month, binge, cancel.
I didn't think of that. I could actually see that being implemented.
Cable doesn’t do this anymore. A lot of the times they are giving the cable portion of their product away if you get their internet.
Yup Netflix is merely the new cable. So prices will keep climbing and they'll add contracts. Already has ads but at least they aren't mandatory.
God I wish these companies would just put their attention in the product, not the service. It serves no one to mindlessly chase the Dollar. In the end the product will suffer. We wouldn't have these issues if the product was worth paying for.
I'm surprised none of the big players do that yet. NowTV here in the UK (Basically Sky repackaged) does that. You think you're getting into a normal monthly sub but then find out it's actually for 6 months minimum.
You only find that out if you can't read what it says right under the price...
God, I despise NowTV. Even when we were paying for it I'd just pie rittt the shows I wanted to watch on it because it was such a miserably shitty service. Tons of ads and shows in 720p, loads of ads and a really dopey UI.
I don't think cable even does that anymore. The lock-in rate isn't popular because it means people feel trapped. Instead, you offer a yearly discount that they then forget about and get charged for the entire year for when renewal happens.
I'd expect more tiers or attempts to bundle. If they win the WB bidding war, they can keep HBO Max separate and create a bundle.
sshh...don't give them any ideas! :)
Pay? Most of them offer free trails
100% agree, it’s all a circle
Thats fair imo, but min 3 months. Because this is exactly what happens.
A dolbe also does this
I wasn't expecting to read such horror today. This would be enshittification++
I joke with my friends that if they stop using my Jellyfin I'll charge them 5x the monthly subscription cost.
I don't charge a subscription cost so it's clearly a joke.
So they pull an 4d0be ?
This is why you see streaming services releasing new shows once a week
Wasn't there a law passed against charging for cancelling? I'm sure dumpy overturned it. Why do people love voting for those who let these corporations screw them over?!
Remember when Netflix once said, “Love is sharing a password?”
They realized love is actually the last bit of money you can bleed from your subscribers.
Netflix loves to shoot itself in the dick.
They keep making more money tho... Guess not enough people are cancelling
I can't afford to subscribe to a platform that hates me and everyone I know.
I stopped paying years ago. Plex is my number 1 now
It’s so easy for alternatives now. Year ago we use to have e to manual go out and find Torrents now all that stuff is plug and play with one install in most cases
Me neither but clearly, millions of other people are.
If most people didn’t leave when netflix didn’t allow paid users to share their account with who they wanted they will never leave. Most of those people bought extra accounts like idiots.
That was the last straw for me. But I guess most people would rather pay more
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I’m fairly confident Netflix has a vagina now. You don’t shoot at a dick as often as they do and expect to go on living with one.
Remember when Netflix was started because Blockbuster Video was overcharging customers and treating them like shit? Pepperidge Farms remembers
Next, netflix will manufacture their own mobile phones, tablets and TV’s so netflix will only work on those devices.
They kinda already have that by forcing you to use a streaming stick, Android/iOS or game console in order to watch in 4k
?? Not true, you can use 4K on PC, just gotta use edge or the app.
On Disney+ they now only give you 480p. For Netflix however they haven't gone that far. Most streaming services dont let you play 4k on Windows/Mac no matter what
this is why I stopped paying for it oh so long ago
I was fine paying full price at the time, but I saw no reason to download an app when the website worked fine before
Don't give them ideas
"We do it because we can."
Eventually it will become so ass that they actually start losing millions of users to piracy, yet there will still be the whales and rich people
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To be fair, I don’t think I can pirate blowjobs
You can’t pirate blowjobs “yet”.
With the interactive toys coming out now that you can provide sensation to one another remotely, it's a matter of time before you can save and thus pirate such content
Lol. I imagine the pirated version released by the studio themselves that'll make the toy bite 😅
YOU WOULDNT DOWNLOAD A BJ
A whole new meaning to seeders
For an extra million. They can upgrade your plan so you can mirror cast from your phone
This guy right here Netflix, he’s your new executive.
Here's the thing though, they keep laying on restrictions and taking away features that make the product a PITA to use. The rich pay for convenience and Netflix isn't even offering that.
People have been saying this since at least 14 years ago. I remember some of my classmates in college in 2011 complaining about the price bump at the time.
Puts on pirate hat
Where we sailing to today?
To the One Piece
Seems rather dumb? Every other streaming services can do this no problem...
For the moment. Other streamers wait for Netflix to do something first, see how it goes then follow.
" Apple " shitification
I don't have too. I subscribe to none of them. And yes you're right.
Hey guess what platforms have casting from phones?
Plex and Jellyfin.
Well whaddyaknow, you can get better service for less, who would've guessed that.
Eventually it will just become inconvenient for people to use netflix, at which point piracy will rise to fill the gap. If netflix becomes too much of a pain, then people will bust out popcorn time, torrents and plex again.
Already happened. Welcome to Kodi or Stremio + Real Debrid. €4 a month for literally everything in 4K 👍
Why do people still subscribe to these services, I dont understand.
Because it's easy.
Most people don't think or care about streaming and the cost of it, they just pay and don't ask questions. Yes they probably get annoyed when prices go up, but not enough to actually do anything about it.
You guys have to realize most people are never going to pirate.
Yeah because one it's kinda illegal if you know what you are doing two I only pirate to desperately watch a show and three Tubi exist
Well, IP Television offers enough quality for people to switch to the dark side sometimes even without realizing. With good devices such as Formuler, it is as seamless as with Netflix or others.
Which is actually really great for us.
Someone has to pay for the content too or else they won't make it.
Someone will always pay. There actually still exist people who are morally against piracy after all.
They are already subscribed. It takes effort to cancel.
My mom has been paying a subscription to watch yoga videos for at least 10 years. She has never watched any of those videos. She also pays for direct TV to watch 1 show.
I never stopped pirating but was still subscribed to Netflix because of the slightly better efficiency. This move completely blows this efficiency out of the water.
I babysit a lot and most families I work for have Netflix and Prime Video. They have it mostly for ease of use.
Two couples I work for still have cable lol One is an elderly couple, the other gets it because growing up their parents had cable and they're used to it. So habit I guess.
I have had is for years at the full price, realized I never watched it. I went to cancel and there was something on there I was remotely interested in, so instead I dropped to the ad supported package. I normally despise these plans but it cut the price in half and all the spots are like 30 seconds and don’t feel toooo intrusive.
Should just cancel it.
Because it’s much cheaper than cable/buying DVDs was and is much more convenient than pirating?
Netflix of all services too though lmfao. Literally the worst of the worst imo.
It’s easy and especially because it’s safer than other stream sites with virus loaded ads. If it wasn’t for that I would just use porcacy but I don’t my wife to not fuck it up and lose a fortune in the process. So sleeping at night is worth 20$ a month
Don't worry, surely they will lower the pricing to reflect the fact that they offer less features now
I think eventually they’ll go to a model of limiting how much you can watch.
“Sorry you have watched the maximum amount for the day/month, please upgrade your subscription package to continue watching”.
I have a laptop hooked up to my TV with a wireless keyboard/ trackpad combo and I have all of my favorite piracy streaming sights bookmarked.
Good luck trying to kill that, Netflix. Suck my dick.
This was 100% to close the password sharing loophole
Enshittification in action. They're about to make themselves irrelevant. idiots.
Breaking: Netflix kills streaming to anything. Requires people to pay regardless.
Stripping features *and* raising prices. I dunno why anyone even subs to netflix anymore. None of their exclusive shows are even that great (not enough to justify the cost/limitations anyway), and they've become a bit of a meme for losing licensing to shows people actually want to watch.
Y'all still use Netflix?
No, we just post about it here so we can laugh at them.
I have it because it's included with my phone plan. I haven't used normally since 2016ish. I recently decided to watch something on there, and was immediately hit with commercials. Probably won't use it again.
Technically, I do. I get it free with T-Mobile; I just don't use their infrastructure. Am I even pirating?
Same. I let my gf use it but she doesn't watch it either.
I visited my in-laws yesterday, and on the way back home, I watched three episodes of the new season of Stranger Things on my phone before I reached home. I hoped to watch the fourth episode on my computer, but Netflix displayed an error message stating that my computer was no longer recognized as belonging to me or my home network, even though it was connected to my home WiFi.
One of the reasons I pay for a steaming service is because of the convenience of streaming it instantly to my Chromecast on my TV. That's literally it. As soon as I have to get laptop over HDMI involved, the advantage closes. Oh well.
Piracy is a symptom of bad service/pricing when will companies learn
They just really pushing us back to 🏴☠️
Probably to combat password sharing even more, casting from my phone has been the only way to still share a password with my father.
jokes on them i pay 40 a year and get all streaming services. these companies wanna get greedy; that's when you hit the high seas. i got enough bills
Well you see that's why third party screen sharing apps exist. This is literally just them dumbing down their software to encourage me to ignore their rules
Jokes on you I use a usb c to hdmi cable.
What free streaming websites support TV casting? AFAIK, that's something that is between your phone and your display, not something offered by the website you go to.
Glad I'm no longer a subscriber - I cancelled my Netflix years ago, when they started their shinanigans and kept increasing the prices.
I seriously hope this will backfire on them.
Spoiler alert .. it won't
Oh, okay.
Now that you're predicting the future, can I have the next 6 months sports results so I can bet on the games and become a millionaire?
its not about predicting future - just stating facts
Even with questionable changes (like this one)
and price hikes - majority of ppl just dont care
Netflix did not lose subscribers at any point during a 14-year period.
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I left Netflix as soon as a found out their Microsoft Store app didn't actually download 4K even though I was fucking paying for it. Couple of years later I saw the whole password sharing debacle and now this. This is absolutely low of low at this point. If businesses really want to exile themselves from customer subscriptions then this is mode of play you invoke on them. Nothing really has come good of Netflix pre covid anyways so let's just let them shoot themselves in the foot at this point. Just watched troll 2 and you can really tell they have no clue in what they are trying to achieve in the creative arts industry. Let them rot
My dumbass was about to say “damn, how are they gonna get any actors then?”
So glad I fucked Netflix off last year, if there was one great subscription service that had everything I would be a subscriber yesterday. Instead there are five or six major ones that all have a couple of great shows and a whole bunch of crap, the high seas are the only way now
A move like this can't actually make them money right?
Netflix is trash
Next step: you cant binge watch shows in a single day. Limit episodes of a series.
We're turning into the bad future you see in films.
Netflix count your days. Your competition only grows everyday with these streaming services and if you keep being dick to everyone people will just jump ship
The golden age of Netflix is long gone. What a crooked company. I can't wait to pirate even more of their content 🖕
I had no casting ever since I was downgraded to ad tier from T-Mobile!
Who the fuck is still watching Netflix
300 million subscribers world wide do
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They’re all wrong.
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I was confused and expected this to be about hiring actors over Facetime.
Projector phone ftw lol
Well hopefully they don't shafted themselves out of a platform,
Will be less for us to watch for free 🤣
I bought Netflix for my mother, and then she couldn't use it because she lived elsewhere, so I had to pay more for the family bollox. I watch it in bed sometimes on my phone as I dont have the TV on to annoy others. But apparently now, I have to turn the telly back on. Nice.
Does this relate just to phones, or is my tablet getting shafted too.
probably they are considering a subscription type like, 9.99 watch 2 shows a day and for 15.99 you can watch 5 shows at day, at this point you can expect anything from this jerks
I’ve been thinking for awhile since Disney+ began eating Hulu that I wouldn’t want the same for Netflix because of the potential unchecked streaming monopoly, however every single thing I hear about Netflix makes me less confident in them as a competitor and begin to welcome our mouse-eared overlords
At first I was upset. Then I remembered that I don’t even use Shitflix lol
Wow corps just wanna see how far they can push b4 no one pays them anymore
How you gonna get a streaming service micromanage you?
I unsubbed when they took away password sharing. Not paying 21 bucks a month (at the time).
Still can't believe people pay for this shit
I really don't understand: who at this point still uses these subscription services?
Literally none of my relatives, colleagues, friends, literally nobody is paying for Netflix/Disney/etc. It's just not a thing here.
Remember when Netflix was King? Now they keep making it unattractive to be a supporter paid a customer.
I'm sorry, what?
MKV + VLC
I believe that soon they will fall like blockbuster did
Suddenly, I realized why avoiding netflix is actually great.
I think netflix are disgusting
I dumped them years ago to go back to using the computer and getting DVDs from the library. They're gonna keep alienating customers and a lot of us actually know how to pirate, our parent's generation not so much, it's only a matter of time.
Does Netflix have a tier where there are ads like prime I feel like that one is a gimme lol.
As much as this echochamber likes to believe it most people are happy with Netflix. This past month they have releases Stranger things, the beast in me, the last samurai standing. Thats three 7/10 shows along with their back catalogue.
There is a reason their subscribers keep going up. Stopping chromecasting will help end password sharing as well.
Those of us who use aars or even stremio forgot how fidly these apps can be. For the average user its not worth saving £10
People still use Netflix?
Tell me of your home world, Usul.
But why publish in this subreddit?...
All news like this usually gets posted here. Like when Netflix and Disney+ cracked down on password sharing, that was posted in r/piracy. Price increases get posted. Or when Prime Video first added ads. Or YouTube Premium trying to close the the VPNing elsewhere loophole for cheaper pricing.
I think it's a good discussion on the debate of whether piracy is a service issue.
To make them feel better
I guess the author of the post likes receiving a lot of upvotes...
The high seas are lookin awfully clear tonight, cap'n!
The way I understand this is:
- If you have a casting device with an actual UI, like Chrome Cast with Google TV, or a smart tv that can run apps, you are supposed to use the actual app on the device instead of streaming directly from the phone
- If you have an older device, like the chrome cast ultra, that has no UI and no remote, you can still stream.
Correct?
I don't even pirate their shows. They are mostly full of some bullshit agenda.
The only Agenda I can see being pushed by Netflix is an Agenda of mid quality shows and movies and comedy shows by washed up comedians that flopped on Twitter then made an entire show about how cancelled they were for being not funny.
Yeah, the agenda is "be background noise while you do chores". Netflix isn't on some "woke" agenda, which is what you're obviously implying. They make slop.
“Any opinions expressed that aren’t mine are an agenda”
I was going to link r/Piracy but realized I was already here.
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