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Unrealistic, you can see the show in the center.
It was pretty optimistic, as far as dystopian fiction goes.
You know what doesn't have ads, ever? Pirated movies and shows.
Why pay insane extortion fees for a deliberately worse experience? It's like paying somebody to slap you in the face instead of enjoying a free, uninterrupted walk in the park.
As long as these satanic corporations continue to be focused on making their services as unusable and expensive as remotely possible - there's literally no reason to pay for them, other than donating to a pedophile cult.
Our neighborhood got a new cable operator about a year ago, and they're great. I can go back and watch any show from the previous 4 days, and skim through all the commercials. I hardly ever watch a show when it's being broadcast. If there's a show on tonight, I'll watch a show that was on last night first, then watch tonight's show when it's over, and I can skip all the commercials.
I can also record a ton of stuff.
Woah, woah, woah. Easy there. I don't think the Satanists want to be associated with these corporations.
We went full piracy in like 2002, stayed that way until about 2017, and now in 2026 have reverted to full piracy again. Time to remind them what killed cable.
When The Pirate Bay launched in 2003, I went full piracy then and never looked back.
From an outsider's perspective, it's like watching a wild roller-coaster ride from the sidelines. Never understood all the Netflix hype when they first launched their streaming service. Tried it once in the early 2010s and was beyond disappointed; the vast majority of of content I wanted to watch was not on there (and still isn't).
These days I use Stremio paired with Torrentio and a Debrid service. Instant streams to anything I could ever want to watch, and it's all there in one place. IDK why people would pay for multiple streaming services when you can just have one.
My conspiracy theory is that Netflix existed as it did for so long to try and kill piracy so they could spring the current corpo hellscape on us; they just pulled the trigger to early.
My dad swore off piracy as soon as netflix was good enough because the price was so low and EVERYTHING was on there (and it was legal). By the time he wanted to get back into it, TPB and his other go-tos were dead, so he still just pays the subscription.
Ive tried to educate him but hes still stuck in corpo hell
What you mean TPB dead? It's totally still viable.
I'm literally downloading something on it now. 😅
Well, it was converted to an FBI front last time I checked, haven't bothered to re-check in the last 6 or so years.
Its the only torrent site I use even to this day.
Streaming killed cable though? Streaming was so good and reasonably priced I had no good reason to pirate. Now the streaming services are more jam packed with ads and as expensive as cable was, so it's back to the high seas for me matey.
Ads killed cable. I still remember having cable briefly in the 80s, we recorded everything on our VCR (anything good) and the best part was those tapes had no commercials.
Granted the cable only had 99 channels max as the two digit red display only had two numbers, but it was glorious.
Ads suck hard, but avoiding them was just one of the plethora of advantages of early streaming. Early Netflix had what felt like infinite content, on demand, for a fraction of the price of cable. That's why the majority of cord cutters ditched cable; price. Avoiding ads was definitely a factor but it was hardly the main one for most of us.
The modern streaming industry has embraced ads in a way that feels somehow grimier than cable because the ads are targeted and we all know it's greed that's put them there.
And there are plenty of ways to get a Netflix like UI for your pirated content.
Stremio and it's alternatives work alright
Plex sucks omega ass
This post sponsored by the Jellyfin gang
IPTorrents ftw
Not just peacock. Ads are invasive. I watch a game show on YouTube because I can pause it to read the lists. The same gameshow on Prime goes right into an ad when I pause. I hope this was a human dumb feature and not an evil design perk for the overlords. I amend what Shakespeare said..."First, we kill all the advertisers".
It's a broadcast TV corp. Of course, they're going to lean into the commercials. They were born in commercials, molded by them.
That's what people don't understand. Those networks are in the ADVERTISING business, that's ALL they're about. The "Content" is just to attract you to the network, let you get comfortable, and hope you're too lazy to get up and walk away, or even change the channel, when the Advertising comes on.
In a battle between Content and Advertising, Advertising will always win.
Yarr! Matey! Maybe ye should join us on the open seas!
jellyfin doesn’t. and your shows never go to another streamer. oh and you can watch them when the internet goes out. oh and they don’t track your watching habits.
why are you watching ~~paramount~~ ~~netflix~~ ~~hulu~~ peacock again?
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VLC and mpv do not.
Subscription service huh? Yup.
So does HBO
or you can just pirate the movie /show somewhere.
Note to self: Hi self, you're awesome! Thanks for not spending all my money on streaming services that treat you like shit, and keep raising prices. I shall continue to not buying peacock.....or hulu.....or netflix.
"No commercials version, $3 extra......may contain commercials."
Fuck the core concept of that.
It drives business people insane, that people who have enough disposable income to pay to remove ads, are exactly the high value customers that they can charge more money to advertise to.
Once you have a 'no ads' tier, your advertisers know that the only people they're getting seen by are people who don't spend money, and they won't want to advertise with you. But if you make a special "here's an audience who piss away money like it's going out of fashion" tier, they'll triple their spend.
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Friends don't let friends subscribe. If you're 20 something know this... We fought our way out of bunny antenna TV and cable shows. We left that for freedom to choose to watch anything we could find on the net. Dvx. But tv followed us. Its here trying to reclaim its "lost revenue".
Cancel, don't subscribe! Fight for your right!
That is true.. But the issue is more widespread than just applying to 20 something year olds. Teenagers also have these exact problems - fighting the industry takes everyone of all ages not just a select few.
I hate them. This kind of small interaction ads are even more intrusive than other kind.
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