Comment on Amazon To Start Running Ads In Prime Video Series & Movies, Will Launch Ad-Free Tier For Extra Fee

• bighatchester@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I like something I saw on here awhile ago that was something like " streaming services where only successful because they where slightly more convenient that pirating " for a while I mostly used a couple of streaming services despite most of the apps having really bad interfaces . But my Plex server has been growing in size lately while the streaming services are being cancelled.

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  • Wilibus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My breaking point for paying for something that I could otherwise get for free is convenience. Doesn’t even need to be a lot, I just refuse to pay for a product that artificially more of a hassle than the identical product that I can obtain for free.

    It’s not so much that I want a superior product, it’s that I refuse to pay money for an inferior alternative.

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    • bighatchester@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My line is ads if I’m paying for something I’m not watching ads . I actually pay for YouTube premium because it’s worth it in my opinion for the amount I use for it and I use YouTube music alot too .

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• MajorHavoc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As someone who doesn’t sail the high seas, I thank you. Sometimes it looks like there won’t be any classic media left without your efforts.

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• RinseDrizzle@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What are the cool kids using these days?

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  • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Honestly still just using Qbittorrent with a VPN; it’s a dream now that fibre is pretty ubiquitous. Mine hit 100MB/S yesterday, a 1.4Gb file takes about 10 seconds

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  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Seedboxes. Download the torrent on someone else's computer, and then directly download it to yours. Sorta like a "money-laundering" for pirated content.

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  • stonedemoman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Qbit+VPN to grab, radarr/sonarr to catalogue, overseerr to request, and plex/jellyfin to watch.

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  • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was using torrents for years before I started messing with Usenet. Now I’ve got it set up it’s easy to grab pretty much anything and at higher quality than before.

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