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.

Scummy

Corporate Execs: "How can we enshitify this service even more?"

That's fine, for a everything else there is jellyfin

Meanwhile I'm still able to cast anything from my Plex server 😏

When I read the headline without context, I thought casting directors were just casting actors unseen over the phone.
But this is worse.

It was already half-dead. Cheapest subscription already had it disabled. I know cause my wife (no idea why) pays for netflix cheapest subscription and she cant use her account on any devices but one or else it will not play anything. Casting didnt work cause this somehow counts as "another device"... Tested on Chromecast 2

I hope more and more people cancel their netflix subscriptions, then either they change back to when it was good, or die.

No problem. I already killed having a Netflix account - too American.

Shits coming more and more full circle. Netflix peaked around covid, then enshitification has just intensified since.

Oh wow really? Casting kinda sucked anyways. Why I moved away from Chromecast after so many issues trying to pause or reconnect to it

I spent too muchtime trying to figure out why they would do casting (like in casting actors for their shows) from a phone.

If I haven't cancelled Netflix already, I would right now. I cancelled Spotify for the same reason just last week (though in their case it might have been a mistake, but I don't really expect such mistakes after increasing the cost twice a year).

torbox + stremio ftw

I suspect that casting might have been used by people to easily capture and share Netflix shows illegally, so they just shut it down.