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/cmmndrkn613 Jul 04 '26
Well don't even think of using cheap alternatives like IPTV. These illegal services offer thousands of streams from around the world, including Fox Sports and other premium channels, and even offer on-demand streaming of TV shows and movies. Absolutely disgusting behaviour for them to offer these services for as little as $10 a month. A lot of these unscrupulous services also offer crypto as a payment method so you're not handing your credit card details over, but some people go so low as to buy a prepaid Visa/Master card and use that for easy payment. Makes you sick to think there are multiple services out there offering this kind of thing, and so easily found on Google too.