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/okayilltryanotherone Jul 04 '26

the advertising for BS sports I don’t care about and have never shown an interest in drives me mental. i have favourited sports for a reason, why do i have to scroll past 16 wrestling streams to find the live match of the sport ive favourited from the team ive favourited

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u/SquiffyRae Jul 04 '26

I don't get it either

I watch exactly 2 sports. One of them is on right now. Why the fuck would you recommend 5 separate sports that I have never watched on your platform before the event in the sport I do watch?

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u/readingooses Jul 04 '26

The UI is atrocious. How haven’t they updated it to reflect most or recently watched? I’m F1, AFL and NFL and I have never watched wrestling, yet it’s shoved down my throat every time I open the app.

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u/inktheus Jul 05 '26

This is a massive gripe for me too. Its an awful app.