It really was nice while streaming lasted. Shame these companies continually allow greed to drive me back into the arms of piracy.
The open, loving arms of the 7 seas.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ piracy is better anyway, I want full bitrate digital copies not compressed garbage.
Such a shame high bitrate full quality movies/TV shows will semi fade away as these asshole companies only stream their movies at 7 gigs an hour and never release physical media.
40GB Pirates of the Caribbean just hits differently. The black pearl coming out of an actual mist and not layers of gray that slowly recede because of compression is very awesome. FullHD with proper bitrate is enough for my 2m projector image, too.
100% It boggles my mind that very apparent compression artifacts don't bother the average consumer.
I guess if you don't know what it is, you can't realize it is a flaw.
If you stream torrented films from your computer to your TV you can get a much nicer bitrate
I remember when an older netflix ceo talked about never having ads on the platform, there was some high and mighty principle about it... But then money!
The ads are really what get me. I’m fucking paying you and you still show me ads?!
I'm so tired of ads everywhere. I ad block at so many avenues. How do we crack an iPad to get rid of app ads? Is that possible?
It is also possible to block ads using some VPNs. But in general, if you want the freedom to modify things, you should not be using Apple products.
Pi-hole network is probably the easiest approcah
I grew up with ads on cable, but I think it was back in the digg days someone said cable started that way too. You paid for cable for shows. Then the ads came. Streaming is almost exactly like cable now, except with the on demand part and how it's over IP.
Yes
Ads were part of over the air but if you bought cable then you had none
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So far, BitTorrent hasn't blocked anything for me.
I was able to watch all of those movies and shows on the Usenet tier of Netflix.
Example
Devil's Advocate here, but I wonder if that could be a choice made by the creatives or the production company - like, "we hate advertising and don't want it shown during our show, so that's the kind of licence we will agree to".
I think a lot of people would applaud that sentiment of refusing to have ads in their show.
Unfortunately the result would be that for noble, purity of the art, reasons they end up accidentally screwing people in your situation.
No idea if that's plausible, but maybe?
Yeah, I feel like there is a lot at play even in terms of how the content is paid for. Maybe netflix only gets the ad money and not the creatives, in which case they don’t want their content on the ad version. Either way, the customer suffers.
So not a real loss in this specific case.
I went back to sailing 6 months ago and dropped Netflix and Prime. I can get free shipping most anywhere now, but it's usually slow to get here. When I tried to watch a show on Prime and got ads as frequently as basic cable I was done.
lol. "upgrade"
What's this skull and cross bones flag doing here???? Oh, right. It's mine. I fly it often....
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It's a licensing issue. They don't have the rights to show every movie or show ad supported.
Do you have a source for that? Because some of them are Netflix originals.
For one you can read the article. But it's a long standing thing. When you license a film or show for streaming, you don't inherently get the right to show ads during it. Some studios specifically exclude the right, some charge more, some don't care. The deals made for some of the Netflix originals don't even allow it, so they can't show their "own" shows with ads. The reality is often times streaming services aren't even making their original shows, they're just paying a bunch of money for exclusive distribution in one or more markets. So, older deals especially, Netflix didn't negotiate for ad rights because they weren't showing ads back then. Some production companies don't want ads running during their prestige show.
they could just show those few titles without ads on the 'ad supported' plan. i dunno. that might make too much sense.
Netflix originals.
"Netflix Originals" are content that is produced, co-produced, or distributed exclusively by Netflix. Note that last type. Anything they have exclusive distribution rights for can be labeled an original, even things they didn't make.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_Netflix_exclusive_international_distribution_programming
It's greed issue.
TIL theres a good place to get free goodies
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Sonofabitch it didn't used to be blocked for .world. I really need to switch, ugh.
World admins seem shitty, they're also banned discussion of jury nullification.
Yeah, .world is pretty shitty in terms of censorship. Wonder why many people stick with that instance.
Enshittification will continue until Chapter 7 bankruptcy improves.
While I don't think this is a news channel, I cannot condemn any rage against the machine.
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