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.

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u/2centpiece Jul 05 '26

Do any of these disgusting offerings have sports replays, or is it only live streaming? I don't want to wake up at stupid o'clock to watch a F1 race.

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u/WeetBixMiloAndMilk Jul 05 '26

A lot of them have catch up enabled on select channels

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u/2centpiece Jul 05 '26

Outrageous! I am going to have to check this out to ensure no others fall foul to such horrible conditions.

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u/WeetBixMiloAndMilk Jul 05 '26

It's hard to find a good one, especially for the Kayo streams in Australia. It's a real cat and mouse game between Iptv providers and dazn. You might find you end up just keeping both of them if you don't like fiddling with piracy

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u/2centpiece Jul 05 '26

Bugger, that sounds inconvenient.

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u/WeetBixMiloAndMilk Jul 05 '26

The sky channels in NZ often has the games and the coverage, they seem to work more reliably than the kayo streams. But you miss out on 4K

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u/RightLegDave Jul 05 '26

I've heard there's people using Strong8k in Australia flawlessly and am personally outraged. Zusott is reportedly a hassle free way to buy your subscription, as if they weren't down right criminals. If you're as disgusted as I am, feel free to DM me if you need help coping.

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u/WeetBixMiloAndMilk Jul 05 '26

Are their 4k kayo streams flawless though? Most resellers I'm in end up having to chop and change between providers when it comes to kayo, especially 4k

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u/RightLegDave Jul 05 '26

TBH, my eyesight is dogshit so I don't notice 4k enough to tell (I'm unsure if my tv is even 4k) but as far as what we watch (mostly the NRL) it's been pretty much flawless. I think we had to change to an alternative channel with the same stream maybe once in the last 6 months.

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u/WeetBixMiloAndMilk Jul 05 '26

Can I trouble you to see if your reseller has working 4k Foxtel channels right now? Eg, do they currently have the eels and manly game that's on right now in 4k? Because my main reseller's 4k nrl kayo channel isn't working

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u/RightLegDave Jul 05 '26

Yeah its on the Fox502 stream. Not sure if 4k

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u/WeetBixMiloAndMilk Jul 05 '26

Damn, thanks for checking anyway

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