This last round was the line for me. Canceled the whole Hulu/D+ mess and haven't looked back. My Jolly Roger is a little tattered these days, but I still know how to fly it.
I quit years ago, back when for me the easiest way to watch what I pirated on my TV was slapping it on a flash drive and walking to the tv like some kind of pleb.
Plex is glorious!
Argh me hearty, fly it with pride.
Honestly it's never been easier
Recently got on board (heh) with all the -arrs and my Plex is now basically all streaming services combined.
I started seeing ads when playing (some) Amazon/paramount videos, plus the Netflix and Disney+ password crackdowns, and the price increases, I'm so over this crap.
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Mmm it’s really sad but some of the nonstandard acquisition sites (even free ones) are better for content discovery than any service has ever been.
Because they don’t fucking recommend each other do they? No.
But the alternative market knows no boundaries. They don’t give a fuck who put what out. “Hey fyi since you like this, you might like this handful of similar things that we make nothing directly off telling you about , but indirectly benefit because you come back”
The Reddit megathread is one of the only things on that site I still reference. Not great, but better than the alternatives (until I get automation set up then it’s all over).
I was already on the fence about cancelling Disney, and honestly this is a great excuse.
Those Disney shows are kinda awful. Outside of The Mandalorian, the marvel shows and other side stories are extremely hit and miss.
The last season of the Mandolorian wasn't even good. It spent most of it's time setting up other crap I am not interested in. There really isn't anything they can do that will make the premise for the sequels not a lazy regressive pile of garbage and it's dragging this show down with it. I didn't even bother with Ashoka since that looked like it was going to be even more of that.
I started flying my jolly roger cause I was out of a job but now I have such a library and I have no desire to ever pay for a subscription again.
What'd they do this time? I don't subscribe to them
Password sharing crackdown, a la Netflix
What? Kids are getting free streaming while at college? These millionaire college students have gotten enough of a free ride!
It will be interesting to see how effective it is, I got around Netflix by just using browser versions. They did a shit job and haven't bothered to fix it.
Dunno, I'm not subscribed either. Can't imagine it's anything good though (if it is, I'll delete my post and phone Disney to apologise).
Can you imagine if a streaming service did something good? "We're updating the terms of service. Now each profile under your account can have their own usernames and passwords to access the service, the profile limit has been doubled, and the number of concurrent logins per profile tripled!"
Honestly keeping it kinda fuzzy and not cracking down is the best option for them.
Some people just aren't willing to pay full price for Disney+. But if they can share their account with someone else, they can pay half price. Most of the cost is in producing the content so having two people paying half price instead of zero people paying full price is a win for them.
But not explicitly allowing this means there's a lot of people that won't share their account. I got sticklers in my family like that... meanwhile my Netflix password is on a note on my parent's fridge. Anyway the sticklers pay full price, the people that don't want to pay full price are still paying something, this maximizes the revenue.
But they're being stupid and think cracking down will convert two people sharing an account into two accounts paying the full price. But it's more likely to convert two people sharing one paid account into zero paid accounts.
But it’s more likely to convert two people sharing one paid account into zero paid accounts.
Netflix's user numbers and revenue went up after their "crackdown". That's why everyone else is doing it too.
"I have altered the contract. Pray I don't alter it further"
--Disney
You can get going with Jellyfin if you want a alternative
First setup Jellyfin on a old computer. (Preferabllly Intel with hardware acceleration) https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/quick-start/
For content follow the following:
Buy the bluray -> rip with MakeMKV -> transcode with Handbreak -> copy into Jellyfin -> update metadata
I mean Disney made money on a theme park ride and a never-ending movie series about piracy seems only fair ...
I mean, capt'n, a EULA/TOS is a guideline really
The updates are never good for the consumer. The quality of the platform goes down, but the prices goes always up. Canceled.
Save us Hondo!
Trade those subscriptions in and buy the stock instead.
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