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Re:Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to pe... by Angostura on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @01:44AM (#14898166)
Does Chromecast really require a Play login? On iOS you can cast with no login at all
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Re:Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to pe... by dTal on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @11:24AM (#14901650)
I don't believe it requires a login, but it does require Play services, which requires giving root to Google via a closed-source binary.
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