• JasSmith@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    With Radarr, Sonarr, and Plex, I get a better TV and movie service than anything I could pay for. I can afford to pay, and I would, but they won’t offer anything reasonable. I ditched Netflix years ago when they removed the rating system to promote their low quality schlock. They kept removing content. Content would auto-play. Discovery broke as they kept trying to make me watch things I didn’t want to watch. If they make their products worse, and keep charging me more every year, they shouldn’t be surprised when I leave.

    • GeekFTW@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      Same. I signed up for Netflix when they came to Canadas in 2010. Immediately had to start using proxies/vpn to access US Netflix since Canada’s selection was broiled ass.

      By 2013 there was news of Netflix talking of blocking non-US users from accessing US Netlix. Immediately cancelled, spun up my Plex server. 30TB later and I got 18 friends off of all their streaming services too lol

    • Scrollone@feddit.it
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      3 months ago

      Pro-tip: Plex is slowly enshittifying, a good open source alternative is Jellyfin.

  • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    pay for prime video or whatever. $2.99 or something i don’t know what it costs i don’t actually do this

    30 minutes in and the resolution changes to 480p because my internet is shit and it’s streaming

    no thanks

  • Derpenheim@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    I dont even try at this point. 11 dollars for shit I dont wanna watch, and there’s ads anyway? Yeah, no, I’m getting in the boat.

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      3 months ago

      Really wish I knew about Jellyfin 5 years ago. So much of my money I could’ve redirected to a seedbox or a decent vpn service. Fuck streaming services

  • rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    How about you Prime Video subscription?

    Yes, we have it

    Great! Let’s watch

    You have to pay £12.99 for it

    What? I already pay you monthly! Why?!

    Because fuck you.

    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 months ago

      Even the stuff that prime has available. I still torrent, just because their player is pure garbage (the X-ray thingy is a nice feature, tho)

      • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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        3 months ago

        yep. I no longer pay for prime, but in the last few months of having it, I just torrented it anyways. whoever designed that app for the Apple TV should be forced to use it for 2 years straight

        • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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          3 months ago

          Oh it’s utter garbage, it straight up doesn’t work in Firefox. I’m not going to switch to Chrome just to use the app I shouldn’t have to.