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…And the enshittification era of streaming services continues unabated.
Sail the high seas guys
Yeah that’s an option but it’s not going to be a practical solution for everyone. Most people on Lemmy are more tech savvy than average so they’ll be fine but there are plenty of people who lack the knowledge and skill. And that sucks because people have shown repeatedly that they are more than willing to pay a reasonable rate for the content they want. But these greedy fucks decided they all needed their own service. So now content is fractured across a dozen different apps that are only getting more expensive and ad riddled.
It just plain sucks that your options are either piracy or being constantly fucked over to benefit shareholders.
Just download streamio and add the torrentio add-on and you're done.
Its the whole pay for VPN that stops people, or at least that's what I've seen.
You don't need a vpn, its like streaming from a site, not downloading.
I haven't personally used it but from what I can find: if you're using torrents with Stremio (e.g. the ones found with torrentio) you are totally uploading parts of what you're watching to others.
Doesn't the name Torrentio imply that its getting it from a Torrent? Or am I misunderstanding?
I'm sorry you're getting downvoted by people who don't know how alldebrid, realdebrid, and premiumize work and refuse to look it up.
Our grandmothers may not know how but most people have enough knowledge to find the right piracy websites, download pirated content and install a vpn
Yar-har-fiddle-dee-dee
And now Prime is doing the same, and Disney wants to tackle password sharing. If everyone had just cancelled Netflix when they started this shit we’d be paying $5 per month and we’d be sharing passwords on all of our streaming services.
People are not that smart. Can't work collectively which is great for capitalism.
Example: 9-5s collectively are way too important for economy , without them economy would not function but individually they are not important and easily replaceable. Hence they teach you not to discuss salary, create hierarchy, fancy job titles etc.
We really need like a consumers union type organization. I know it would require work, but I guarantee if millions of people got the "Hey just don't have Netflix for a couple months and we'll get what we want" memo, then millions of people would have stuck together
I canceled my Prime subscription when they announced they were going to put ads in prime video. I don't even use Prime Video. It's the principle.
And Netflix would still be unprofitable
Not surprised really. Netflix was part of my cellphone plan, when I switched plans, I just couldn't rationalize it anymore. I remember as a young working teenager loving how I could just mail those DVDs back and forth. I've never not had a Netflix since they first launched. Feels odd really, but ultimately I just can't abide their shenanigans.
Setup a jellyfin server for me, friend and family and I haven't look back.
Same, invested in a nice QNAP NAS and I haven’t thought about a single streaming service in years
That's okay, I already canceled my Netflix like a year ago.
Joke's on them, I already retired it in my house.
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Why is Canada anyways first in line to get assf***Ed?!
Sadly it ends up being a fairly good test market for the US.
Some good stuff starts in Canada as a result, too.
I’m in the US and I only have Standard as an option in my account. Is that the same as Basic or did they get rid of it here already?
I wonder where they got that idea from
80 years of precedent?
Let em, not like I'm paying for it anyway.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Netflix users in some countries will soon have to pay more to watch TV and movies without advertisements.
In a shareholder letter from Tuesday, the streaming service said it's looking to "retire" its cheapest ad-free plan in "some of our ads countries."
Netflix will implement the change in Canada and the U.K. in the second quarter of the year before "taking it from there," the letter said.
Last year, Netflix stopped allowing new and returning subscribers in the U.S., U.K. and Canada to select its basic plan.
American subscribers who were grandfathered into Netflix's basic plan saw a price hike last year after Netflix raised that plan's price from $9.99 to $11.99 a month.
The video streaming service also started a crackdown on password sharing last year.
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