Netflix Starts Booting Subscribers Off Cheapest Basic Ads-Free Plan
Netflix Starts Booting Subscribers Off Cheapest Basic Ads-Free Plan
Netflix is proceeding with its plan to discontinue its cheapest ad-free subscription tier, starting with the UK and Canada, with more countries...
You're viewing a single thread.
Also, on the "standard with ads" tier, they've removed the ability to chromecast.
Wow what a dumb way to basically gatekeep me from even moving to the ad tier.
The ads are added in the app. If you cast, the Chromecast can't add apps (yet) so they'd have to make ad streams instead, and switch between the streams show-ad-show which would take several seconds of loading screen each way and so on. Which is a level of fuckery even they shied away from.
TLDR they can't (easily) show ads during casting.
Kind of makes sense - casting is usually a webstream without extra dev effort. I'm not sure if you still can, but I used to circumvent twitch ads by casting from my phone. Not to excuse their shitty behaviour; I gave up on them years ago and started hosting my own content.