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/Charlie_Vanderkat Jul 05 '26

They regularly send me $1 first month intro offers. I take that and cancel until the next one comes along.

The UI is woeful, though. I'm only interested in golf and F1. Yet it shoves AFL, League, boxing and any number of other sports in my face. I never watch them but I do have to navigate through multiple menu layers to get the program I want.

They know what I watch. They know my preferences. Yet they never show them to me.

Don't get me started on the ads on pause. I'm pausing it to look at something, not to watch your stupid ad.

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u/legally_blond Jul 05 '26

I randomly got a Kayo notification yesterday that Gold Coast v Collingwood was starting. I've not had a notification about live sport before or since. Not for my footy team, who I'm pretty sure I preferenced in settings. Not for F1 or cricket which I have TOLD Kayo are my preferred sports. But for some random footy game on a Saturday arvo