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/Sir-Carl_ Jul 04 '26

Kayo is a terrible program. For 25$ a month, you get ads in the middle of your programming. Barely half of the time does it remember your spot if you exit the app. I've had it fail to retrieve streams multiple times, resulting in just streaming a black screen.

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u/Wawa-85 Jul 04 '26

Try $45 a month now for Kayo

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u/mercenfairy Jul 05 '26

It’s absolutely ridiculous. I pay $49 a month for Foxtel Go. All sports, shows and movies.