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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 22 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 19 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I must be living a very luxurious life then. Jellyfin has kept the same price for ad-free 'streaming', as has Stremio (so far).

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 58 points 11 hours ago

"Piracy is a service problem."

We have a service problem.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 49 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

That's why I subscribe to Jellyfin Plus Pro Premium Ad-Free.

The others had their chance. They chose greed.

[–] SPOOSER@lemmy.today 21 points 10 hours ago

Jellyfin Plus Pro Premium Ad-Free truly is the best service available. My favorite part is it's streaming service agnostic, I actually own the media, and it's immune from a corporation taking media away from the particular streaming service because they wanted to make their own streaming service!

[–] nserrano@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Add free streaming is a myth now.

-there I corrected it

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Yeah. When I heard about cable (as a kid because I heard you paid for it), I imagined it was ad free. And then when I became an adult and experienced cable, I was super disappointed and it made me mildly upset.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 7 hours ago

I prefer minuses too.

[–] dektep@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

🏴‍☠️

[–] newton@feddit.online 16 points 10 hours ago

Never seen adds in the last 2 decades.

[–] dasrael@lemmy.zip 43 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

just fucking torrent it all you losers. a vpn sub is cheaper than netflix.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago

Sometimes I make it a challenge. Can my other half access the content the "right" way faster than a torrent can be found?

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Stremio your way out of it. I see so few ads in my life that it triggers me whenever I do.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 hours ago

Preach it, brother.

[–] Emptiness@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Is IPTV piracy just a European thing then?

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

My friend here in the States has it. He let me use it for a while. It's really cool, but finding an IPTV service that's reliable is a real challenge.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Go to Chinese amazon, search for android boxes and ask for a test they will give you a code. Use tivimax premium as your app, said to be the best.

[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 10 points 11 hours ago

This was the plan the entire time

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 72 points 16 hours ago (22 children)

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.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 13 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

or just go to your local library where they have 1000s of dvds/blu rays for you to borrow for free

[–] ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net 16 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] PostaL@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Holy shit! Now I got it why they are called Sonarr, Radarr, etc... 🤦‍♂️

[–] ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net 3 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, took me a while to get that, I had the same holy shit moment about a year ago.. ;-)

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[–] PushButton@lemmy.world 105 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

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.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 14 points 15 hours ago

But we all know what TO do.

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[–] ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net 23 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 7 points 11 hours ago

Yet one more thing pushing people to Piracy…

Piracy is the poor doing what the rich do all the time.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 hours ago

The end result is that advertisers dictate content, like they have done with traditional broadcast.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 8 points 12 hours ago

its really funny how this is so much the way cable went.

[–] Lanske@lemmy.world 22 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

I love jellyfin streaming 😀

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[–] DaanBanaan@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Stremio + Real-Debrid = adfree streaming.

[–] GalacticRobot@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago (7 children)

JellyFin + your own media = ad free streaming. I detest ads and general streaming services. Whenever you want to talk about a show, you have to preface it with 'what streaming service is it on'?

[–] fluckx@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

And you can watch it when your internet is down.

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[–] EowynCarter@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

I just subscribe to max 2 services at a time.

And there are a few things I just didn't watch because not worth it.

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