Comment on A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them

• Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s not that it’s gone, it’s that the platform continues to enshittify.

  It’s really hard to remove all their bloatware garbage, and features seem to get worse all the time. Subtitles had a big change and they really don’t do a good job of supporting them anymore, as an example. Had one show that no matter what I did the subtitles just wouldn’t work, after updating to a modern version that had the modern ‘updated’ subtitle handling.

  When I got it they never had ‘ad supported plex tv’, now they do and they promote it everywhere. All I want to do is keep supporting what they have, newer modern codecs, squash bugs, and act as a crappy dynamic dns so I can not setup a domain that goes to my home network connection which is a dynamic ip.

  What I don’t want is to have to go into settings to disable or hide all their garbage ad revenue supported services everywhere in my private media library I paid a lifetime license fee for. It didn’t have that advertisement when I bought it, they shouldn’t be adding it afterwards, and I shouldn’t have to keep updating my config just to stay on a version that supports evolving hardware.

  I tried Jellyfin but it’s even worse for subtitles which are unfortunately mandatory in my household.

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• Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nothing

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• ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Still there

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