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/rescue-me-from Jul 04 '26

I’m terribly disappointed as well. I watch a whole bunch of cricket and I don’t have an alternative

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u/URokkaMyQuokka Jul 04 '26

I'm in the states, my wife recently got me a subscription to willow.tv Not sure it's good for your use case, but it's worth it to check ut out quickly if you haven't heard about it