The verge: "it started with ads and blabla".

No.

It started when people were pirating and life was good. Then the streaming came with a good product and a fair price -> people agreed with that and people stopped pirating.

Companies started to enshitify the product, we are now at this point.

I am not suggesting you what to do.

Lemmy: Arrrr!

Big Tech: take away their PC and give them some completely locked down box fully under our control, to protect the children of course. And no more physical media!

The only answer to that is probably board games and books.

"Piracy is a service problem."

We have a service problem.

That's why I subscribe to Jellyfin Plus Pro Premium Ad-Free.

The others had their chance. They chose greed.

just fucking torrent it all you losers. a vpn sub is cheaper than netflix.

It really is. I've been using an Nvidia Shield for my living room TV. All of a sudden this week it showed a Lidl ad right there on the homescreen. Those fuckers. Replacement is on its way, fuck Nvidia.

I haven't watched something with ads in it for many years.

Y'all know how.

Only time is when I stay in hotels and watch their cable. It's so weird and insulting after freeing myself from them for so long. It breaks up the pace and basically ruins the entire experience.

Maybe I should start running ads on my jellyfin server. Something like "want unlimited bluey for a weekend? Clear and load the dishwasher twice this week"

Or "want +16 content? Start being an adult and use the toilet brush"

Yet one more thing pushing people to Piracy...

There is nothing more maddening than advertising during a show that wasn't written for commercial breaks.

I must be living a very luxurious life then. Jellyfin has kept the same price for ad-free 'streaming', as has Stremio (so far).

Not on my media server it ain't.

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I love jellyfin streaming 😀

Never seen adds in the last 2 decades.

.... Ublock origin, Jellyfin.

I:m so used to block ads on every platform I use. That everytime I'm forced to use an infected version of said platform I'm shocked by the amount of ads that are being shuved down your throat.

On high seas there are no ads arr... 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

I saw great potential in streaming. Then physical media started to evaporate. Then everyone started to have their own streaming platform. Then came the ads.

By the time I could have afforded them, it got enshittified. Back to swashbuckling I guess.

Stremio your way out of it. I see so few ads in my life that it triggers me whenever I do.

I appreciate the article points out AppleTV as being the only one without ads at this point. They also have great shows and the fidelity of the video is good.

Tim Cook sucks at this point, but who ever is running the TV business is doing a good job.

Good thing uBO exists, and uBOL for Chromium.

This was the plan the entire time

I mean... I wouldn't say that the 3€ I pay for my torbox monthly are so much money as to be considered a luxury but I guess not everyone can afford that much for a sub...

It became the thing it sought to destroy: cable

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Stremio + Real-Debrid = adfree streaming.