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The verge: “it started with ads and blabla”.
No.
It started when people were pirating and life was good. Then the streaming came with a good product and a fair price -> people agreed with that and people stopped pirating.
Companies started to enshitify the product, we are now at this point.
I am not suggesting you what to do.
But we all know what TO do.
Not even close
I know a bunch of people on lemmy don’t constitute a diversified survey, but this is verbatim me.
Lemmy: Arrrr!
Big Tech: take away their PC and give them some completely locked down box fully under our control, to protect the children of course. And no more physical media!
The only answer to that is probably board games and books.
Team Arrrr here. ;-)
or just go to your local library where they have 1000s of dvds/blu rays for you to borrow for free
Good luck with that. I still have functional PCs that are 20 yrs old and perfectly fine as Jellyfin servers.
That’s why I subscribe to Jellyfin Plus Pro Premium Ad-Free.
The others had their chance. They chose greed.
It really is. I’ve been using an Nvidia Shield for my living room TV. All of a sudden this week it showed a Lidl ad right there on the homescreen. Those fuckers. Replacement is on its way, fuck Nvidia.
I mean, yes fuck nvidia for sure, but I think those ads are via the googs. They have ramped up lately for sure.
In either case, I ignore them for now as I click into the jellyfin interface and enjoy my library.
All of a sudden this happened years ago.
just fucking torrent it all you losers. a vpn sub is cheaper than netflix.
Sometimes I make it a challenge. Can my other half access the content the “right” way faster than a torrent can be found?
I must be living a very luxurious life then. Jellyfin has kept the same price for ad-free ‘streaming’, as has Stremio (so far).
I haven’t watched something with ads in it for many years.
Y’all know how.
Only time is when I stay in hotels and watch their cable. It’s so weird and insulting after freeing myself from them for so long. It breaks up the pace and basically ruins the entire experience.
Maybe look into getting a GL.inet travel router with WiFi and a Chromecast/Android stick. I use that when I travel. Setup a WiFi network on the travel router and setup the Chromecast on it for when you’re at the hotel.
At the hotel, either jack the travel router into a network port then use your phone to sign in to the hotel’s network, or configure Repeater/WISP to get the travel router to connect to and re-broadcast the hotel WiFi (again using your phone or PC to sign in). Going Repeater/WISP brings a sizeable performance hit due to the lack of radios but it’s definitely do-able.
If you’re hosting Jellyfin externally, job done. If not, you can configure OpenVPN/Wireguard on the travel router and your home router and connect privately that way.
Source: Tech worker who had a requirement to be overseas 80% of the year in different hotels :)
https://www.gl-inet.com/collections/travel-routers
https://wifirepeater.org/openwrt-wisp-repeater-mode-configuration/
… Ublock origin, Jellyfin.
Yet one more thing pushing people to Piracy…
There is nothing more maddening than advertising during a show that wasn’t written for commercial breaks.
Yet one more thing pushing people to Piracy…
Piracy is the poor doing what the rich do all the time.
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Never seen adds in the last 2 decades.
I:m so used to block ads on every platform I use. That everytime I’m forced to use an infected version of said platform I’m shocked by the amount of ads that are being shuved down your throat.
I mean… I wouldn’t say that the 3€ I pay for my torbox monthly are so much money as to be considered a luxury but I guess not everyone can afford that much for a sub…
No streaming then.
This was the plan the entire time
