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Netflix kills casting from phones (www.theverge.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Casting support is still available on older Chromecast devices or TVs that support Google Cast natively, according to Netflix’s support page

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[–] 22 points 11 months ago (4 children)

What possible benefit does this offer to Netflix? Are they trying to avoid paying licensing fee or something?

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Probably. Or they want to reduce their development and maintenance costs with the extra code for those devices. Or maybe they somehow make more money when users are watching on some other device/software.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    IS IT extra code to maintain though? My understanding of casting is it effectively sends a URL to the receiving device. I would think there's a negligible amount of development spent on maintaining it. And every media app under the sun supports it, now except for Netflix. 🤦

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    In that case maybe Google was gathering too much insight on the content Netflix users were watching. I’ve heard that Amazon (for a while) stopped including product information in their order confirmation emails because Google was gaining product purchase trend data.

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