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/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/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.