I was wondering why my Chromecast was suddenly untrusted. An update seems to have knocked off older Chromecast devices globally. People are factory-resetting them before they know what to do, making the potential fixes even harder.
Factory reset isn’t the end of the world, I did it to my gen2 Chromecast when the outage first happened and managed to get it connected again by rolling my phone’s date back and finishing the setup.
This article was super helpful and helped temporarily restore casting functionality from my phone. https://mensfeld.pl/2025/03/bringing-your-chromecast-back/
Is there any alternative to chromecast out there with more privacy?
Yea I mean dlna/upnp is open, Chromecast solves the problem of a cheap, small bit of hardware to do that. It’s a bit of a mixed blessing. They sell at what must be a loss*, maintain backwards compatibility at I’m sure a huge expense, all to get your data.
Bluetooth
It’s a bug. They’re aware and working on it
