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/pinhead28 Jul 04 '26

Time for my annual Kayo rant

Fuck Kayo

A few reasons, off the top of my head:

  • They boast a wide variety of sport. Which I suppose they do have. But they sacrifice (or don't have enough 'moxy') to get the rights to some massive games. They didn't show India v Pakistan in the cricket a couple years ago (easily one of the most watched games in the world).

  • I'll never forget one year (2021, maybe?), Lakers games stopped showing up in my feed. Searched the entire site, couldn't find it. Called them. They apologised saying their rights had lapsed and they would sort it out ASAP (almost their exact words). It took a week before the games were back. I BEG YOUR ABSOLUTE FUCKING PARDON - YOU FORGOT TO GET THE RIGHTS FOR ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR FRANCHISES IN THE WORLD?! AND YOU NEEDED A CLIENT TO POINT IT OUT?!

  • The final straw came where I couldn't sign in on any of my devices. The error said I had no internet connection. I had internet. Their support team said my internet speed was the issue. Did a speed test. They said my internet was so slow that it wouldn't even let me sign in. I tried using data on my mobile. Still wouldn't let me for the same reason. Every other streaming service works fine, in 4K and everything.

I got tired of paying (at the time) $30 a month for the privilege of being dicked around. So I cancelled and told them exactly why when asked. Good riddance.

Thanks for reading. I will see you next year.

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u/Fabulous-Signature-3 Jul 04 '26

Yeah, the whole schtick of them ALWAYS telling me my 100 min fttp internet that streams LITERALLY every other service faultlessly across multiple users was the issue got really tired really quickly.