You're all missing the FAR BIGGER problem: anyone, and I mean literally anyone, can now chromecast to your receiver. All anyone needs is access to the internet (to have something to cast and to connect with Google), use google chrome, and voila they can cast right to your tv without doing any further set up. And apparently there's absolutely no way to stop it.
This means the neighbor you hate or someone sitting in their car within a few dozen feet of your home can now cast porn or murder scenes or other horrible videos while your children are watching their cartoons or while you're laying down relaxing and watching a movie, since the moment something is casted to your receiver it overrides everything else. And considering you don't need to do it through the Google Home app like with a regular chromecast device, it makes it even easier. Then, when I try to shut it down, my receiver crashes so badly it's a blank screen and doesn't even attempt to restart itself, meaning I have to do a cold reset for it to work again. Which likely means the programmers had no idea what they were doing (par for the course) and had no idea how to try to make it work so they jammed things in random places instead.
Also, since there's absolutely no way to actually turn off the chromecast, there's no way to stop this. There's no way to prevent the possibility. There's no way to protect yourself or your children. Which means having your tv on with children around allows a real, even if tiny, chance that your children could be exposed to something really awful if people start exploiting this complete and total failure of a company to care about their users. This means Dish and Google are actively participating in allowing anyone to force you or your kids to watch whatever they want as long as you're using their receiver.
As if that was bad enough, THEIR EMPLOYEES DON'T EVEN KNOW THIS IS A POSSIBILITY! They've never been told chromecast ability exists within the receivers, let alone trained in how it works. Yet again I'm literally training their own IT people how their equipment works because Dish employees apparently get no training on anything besides "look up the code and tell them what to do". So if their own employees have no idea it exists, how many customers won't know until it happens to them?
Time to contact the FCC https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/filing-informal-complaint BBB https://www.bbb.org/us/co/englewood/profile/cable-tv/dish-network-llc-0885-6370 your state Attorney General's office https://www.usa.gov/state-attorney-general and especially your federal elected officials https://whoismyrepresentative.com/ to file complaints with all of them for this egregious and extraordinarily dangerous problem. Encourage investigations and for Dish and Google to have to testify in front of congress about why they believe it was okay to force this on us. And be sure to tell everyone you know who has Dish about this, so they can be extremely cautious (never allow their children to watch anything alone) and also file complaints.
