{"id":315141,"date":"2019-08-01T08:05:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T06:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=315141"},"modified":"2019-08-01T08:06:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T06:06:50","slug":"why-the-netflix-android-app-is-tracking-user-movements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/315141-why-the-netflix-android-app-is-tracking-user-movements.html","title":{"rendered":"Why the Netflix Android app is tracking user movements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix&#8217;s Android application is tracking some users&#8217; movements by requesting access to physical activity sensors, <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/apps\/2019\/07\/31\/netflix-is-testing-changing-playback-quality-based-on-your-physical-activity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>TheNextWeb<\/strong><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix told TheNextWeb that it was tracking user movements to try and improve video quality when a viewer is moving.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are continually testing ways to give our members a better experience,&#8221; Netflix said. &#8220;This was part of a test to see how we can improve video playback quality when a member is on the go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Only some accounts are in the test, and we don\u2019t currently have plans to roll it out,&#8221; the company added.<\/p>\n<p>The streaming platform&#8217;s Android application includes various mobile-centric features which aim to improve the streaming experience on smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>These include automatic data usage optimisation, which kicks in when the viewer is not connected to Wi-Fi.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/314713-you-can-now-install-android-on-your-nintendo-switch.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">You can now install Android on your Nintendo Switch<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix&#8217;s Android application is tracking some users&#8217; movements by requesting access to physical activity sensors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":236520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,2054,60281],"class_list":["post-315141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-netflix","tag-physical-activity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}