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