Just steal the content and get a good android TV with Plex or jellyfin if you hate yourself.
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Which of those three things do you do if you hate yourself?
Any, really. All if you completely loathe yourself, though:)
Honestly, jellyfin is the way to go, though. At least it's just you hating yourself and not a whole company and ad machine hating you too, like with plex.
I prefer Kodi>umbrella>torbox. It was real debrid but they got kinda broken after they were sold. Im still riding out my subscription but still
Plex is fine as long as your not paying monthly. I spent my $75 15 years ago. It'll take a lot to get me to swap off.
Either works. Plex is heavy down the enshitification path but is great for remote access sharing. And Jellyfin is harder to get hardware transcoding going well and the clients aren't as good and it's very insecure to run for remote access (basically you need to VPN into your home network instead of public remote access).
edit: fixed "so secure" to "insecure"
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Jellyfin. Absolute dumpster fire with any remote. I honestly can't believe they have made a remote friendly UI.
They bought tubi too which is a damn shame.
they owned a part of roku at that time, and were forced to sell that to buy tubi.
now that FOX news corp(not disney fox) will likely use roku to peddle scams and right wing propaganda, you should throw it away.
I watch TV over antenna, and my Roku TV has a great interface for that. Antenna is just a simple tile right next to my other inputs or apps. It has a nice guide so I can see what's on, and I can pause and rewind. Is there any other TV or device that offers this convenience?
I really would like to switch because my Roku TVs are constantly freezing and crashing and have to be rebooted.
This is a space that needs alternative. I use Nvidia shield but it defaults to Googles home page so I see ads
roku was pretty much the only viable 'alternative' to the big companies and studios. didn't even need a credit card (nocc link) or to reveal personal details other than an email for an account (for the devices)-could watch free stuff without a login with the browser. if you did pay for stuff, you can sub to several other services through roku (kinda like how prime does it).
fox was actually forced to sell its stake in roku when it bought tubi a few years ago. that should be enough right there to say fu go away, but ofc this admin will conveniently ignore that fact and give roku and its ~ 150 million screens to the propaganda machine that is fox.
Who are they kidding? It's been years since they started scanning everything you were watching to inject ads into it. If people were happy with that, they're happy with this.
Ditched my roku with the policy change that required agreeing, or no access to the device. It went in the bin.
Roku was trash from day one, the original advertelevision, i cant fathom what person it would make sense for, just people falling for marketing but it really doesn't make sense to buy one or even accept it as a gift -- but idk people also buy amazon sticks which are basically convert your tv to a roku device. Idk man people are dumb and scumbags take advantage wcyd
The epitome of capitalism. Cancer sucks everything.
i've never even known what Roku is
its basically "low cost tv" subsidized by constant ads.
It's the Japanese word for 6
It's a smart tv preloaded with ads, idk but i guess people like ads? I don't get it.
I knew it was a box think I first saw it when curious about a hardware kodi (say 15-18 years ago?) back when they were newer. Though I just wanted something to show me what I have in my network, never used the other streaming on it, maybe missed out I dunno.
Oh I replied cause I wanted a device/program to have a nice browsing interface for my owned files, and having a program with ads? Big nope. Mean maybe I missed out but nothing I've read seemed overly interesting when I just wanted a nice interface. Now just use a PC with Kodi for my stuff with browsers / apps for streaming, works well enough. Probably pay too many services but not the only one in the house.
If I could never see another ad I'd be so happy heh south Park flashbacks.
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If you feel similarly grossed out by the Fox acquisition, I'd recommend you make similar moves. Instead of a Roku Stick, you could use the Google TV Streamer or Apple TV 4K, both of which offer more modern interfaces than Roku's.
Oh yes, the exemplar of stealing your data and the biggest walled garden in tech are far superior choices!
Normies just aren't going to self host nor do they give a shit that big tech harvests their data.
Maybe I'm confused, but those are pretty much the only choices?? Oh wait throw amazon in there too I guess lmao
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I was ready to discount this as pearl clutching but after reading it, I'm of the same mindset.
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