Netflix. The American company has surprisingly revealed a practice that the world hates in the case of other similar services, and not only that, but that did not stop it from secretly doing something that no platform should do. More precisely, the Netflix application began to track the physical activities of its users, that is, when they are in motion, something that normally should not have been done by an application of this kind.
Netflix. The American company has confirmed that it has implemented such a system in its applications for certain users, the goal being to improve the way video streaming is done through it. Basically, Netflix makes it clear that it wants to follow the moments when users are on the move, and the internet connection has fluctuating speeds, so that video streaming can also be done at different quality.
How Netflix SECRETLY FOLLOWS you, and WHY It Did This
Netflix. It seems that this functionality is implemented only for those who have Android Q installed in their phones and use the video streaming application at the moment. Everything is based on a special API that Netflix has implemented for this new operating system, and users must give the application access to movement information so that it can monitor what they are doing.
"We are constantly trying ways to give our members a better experience. This was part of a test to see how we can improve the quality of video playback when a member is in motion. Only some accounts are in testing and we currently have no plans to expand them.”
Netflix. It's interesting what the platform wants to do, and this in the conditions that so far no other platform has taken this kind of information to improve the quality of video streams for users. It is hard to say to what extent Netflix will really be able to offer better quality for streaming if it takes this information, but it is good to know that it is at least trying to improve its services at the moment.
