I was a big fan of the original Chromecast. The UX was simple: install the thing, get it on your Wifi, and then just send stuff to it from your phone. The end. No remote. No account. Barely even any security! It didn’t do anything other than be a destination for whatever content I want to see on my TV. I recently bought whatever Google is calling the latest generation of Chromecast and it involves a whole account setup, it has a remote, collects a bunch of data about me (which it probably c...
