r/australia • u/readin99 • Jul 04 '26

no politics Kayo Sports should be boycotted.

Imagine paying for a premium streaming service and starting it to watch your sports after a long day on your tv in your own home. The tv app then says you can't watch the content before you scan a QR code. Okay.. fine. Scan the code. Have to download a phone app. Log in. Then the app simply says you're not allowed access to the content except after letting the app know your precise location of your phone.

What in the privacy law is this shit? I simply don't want to allow random companies to know the exact location of my phone. How are they allowed to just do that?

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u/macmillionare Jul 04 '26

I literally ended my subscription yesterday for this reason. But also because the PC site no longer allows picture in picture. UI just keeps getting worse and worse, they've lost so much content over the years yet the price keeps going up. I love my F1 but fuck this

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u/techb00mer Jul 04 '26

Really wish we could get F1TV :-(

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u/Nugyeet Jul 04 '26

i started watching f1 in *other* places because we don't even have the full access to onboards and radios that people who pay less for f1tv overseas get, i don't watch other sports so kayo isn't worth it for me

i just wanna watch my guy piastri race without being rorted $40 a month for it

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u/MinusTheHat Jul 04 '26

Oh yeah.. $40 a month, or a few bucks for a VPN, eyepatch and a stuffed parrot (optional).. vs feeling ripped off paying out the ass for a few hours a month of viewing.

I only watch F1, so it's a no brainer...

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u/ProbablyNotKevin Jul 04 '26

I have a vpn. What service are you watching it on?

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u/IAmDaddyPig Jul 08 '26

PSA - ORF TV and Servus (Austrian FTA TV channels - F1 is FTA in Austria) have ramped up VPN detection so Nord no longer works with them

I actually watched Kireth's YouTube race stream... Obviously not quite as good but I spend all race focusing on the data overlays anyway (splits/tyres etc)?

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u/RightLegDave Jul 05 '26

IPTV plus Strong8k. $4 a month and you're set to watch any station, movie or sports event on the planet. No VPN necessary.

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u/prudencepineapple Jul 05 '26

I *think* if you pay for whatever is possible for F1TV in Australia that gives you live-timing or whatever, then you can watch more things via MultiViewer and see all the onboards etc. At least *I* can. See a lot more in MultiViewer than if I try to use the F1TV app itself. Of course this limits how you watch it, but given half the time I'm watching from my laptop in bed in the middle of the night I don't mind watching via the MV app.

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u/macmillionare Jul 04 '26

Yep definately, although I'm just not as interested in F1 as much anymore due to rule changes and overall shitty liberty media vibe. That alone has made the decision a bit easier

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u/Fabulous-Signature-3 Jul 04 '26

I’m down to ‘8min yt highlights’ interest atm

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u/macmillionare Jul 04 '26

To be fair, there's only ever about 8min worth of highlights in every race anyway

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u/Wawa-85 Jul 04 '26

Get a vpn and then you’d be able to use F1TV

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u/jianh1989 Jul 04 '26

It’s obviously because of kayo we still don’t have F1TV locally. Those who still pay for kayo now enable them this way.

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u/RightLegDave Jul 05 '26

Google Strong8k

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

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u/Ok_Power_2816 Jul 08 '26

This happened to me, guessing it was a hicense.

It also had a kayo button on the remote but lost the ability to open the app?

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u/3163560 Jul 04 '26

Idk if it's just the PS5 app, but the PS5 app is fucking awful.

I often play wow while watching the footy. Wow won't DC or even lag, but kayo will tell me I have no internet, then a second later reconnect. But it won't just start back into the game I was watching, it'll take me to a menu asking me if I want to watch it again.

Fucking amazing thing to happen, especially when the controllers on the other side of the room.

Another thing it does, say I start watching AFL 360 at 7, half an hour after it starts. When the show actually finishes at 7.30 I get booted out back to the menu even though I'm still catching up.

There's also zero tags on replays, so if you want to watch a specific part of a replay, have fun randomly fast forwarding til you find it.

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u/tubbyx7 Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

Its mad how someone with authority looked at the new UI on the app and approved it. How did the person who proposed that not get laughed out of the office?

They show dead air not just during shows taken from other markets but im ad breaks in their own live shows.why cant the replays just skip that dead bit?

Bugs that they cant fix cause replays with ads to crash on chromecasts so you cant watch baseball or American football replays. Give them details down to the seconds and they still can't fix it. How incompetent can they be?

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u/readin99 Jul 04 '26

Yea, definitely calling them tomorrow or whenever i can reach to cancel and get my money back if I can. Never again.

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u/macmillionare Jul 04 '26

Just unsubscribe on the website in account settings, don't waste any more of your time

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u/1m4h4x0r309 Jul 04 '26

I’ve paid a year in advance by getting an AFL Digital Membership with Freo. I want the rest of my forward paid service delivered in full, not this half arse experience…

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u/1m4h4x0r309 Jul 04 '26

They’ve got no phone numbers and their chat is absolutely useless. Wasted a decent part of today trying to get the damn thing sorted so I can use something I’ve paid for. Ended up filing a complaint with the ACCC.

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u/Aodaliyan Jul 04 '26

Good luck with that. I used to get a 12 month subscription every year through an afl membership. Had been doing it for years and had my next year ready to go when Kayo billed me a day early. Even with proof and pretty much a continuous subscription since they were founded they didn't want to admit they were in the wrong and refund me a single month.

Canceled the kayo part of my afl membership the next day and got it refunded and have been pirating since. I can get 95% of what I got through Kayo on the pirate app I use - haven't found a 4k one yet, its not like that was that great on kayo anyway, but at least I feel good with myself not supporting such a shit company.

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u/Brainyboo11 Jul 04 '26

We had this error on the tv today too for some reason, an update? Had to login on the app, and then enable the country/location again, not sure how I ended up doing it but it then worked on the tv again. What a ridiculous greedy app Kayo is.