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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.
But we all know what TO do.
Not even close
I know a bunch of people on lemmy don’t constitute a diversified survey, but this is verbatim me.
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.
or just go to your local library where they have 1000s of dvds/blu rays for you to borrow for free
My library does streaming now, don’t even need to make the trip, it’s pretty awesome.
“Piracy is a service problem.”
We have a service problem.
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”
You may have just become your parents
some time ago I saw an homeassistant customizatoin where the smartplug for TV would turn on only after the child confirmed they completed a bunch of tasks (homework, putting away toys etc). Sure they could “cheat” but that would just trigger a total ban for a month.
Ngl that might work on me, gating Bluey behind the dishwasher. At least until the obsession ran out.
Not on my media server it ain’t.
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I love jellyfin streaming 😀
This. Domain and static IP cheaper than streaming services.
Since when does a static IP address cost less than a streaming service? Domains sure. But a static is like $20-30 a month. I use dynamic DNS for any services that need to access the WAN side of my firewall (very very few) and I use tailscale for all things on my local network I need to access from outside. I would never let my media server or NAS touch the WAN.
Mine is free.
Same, works great, it’s my media, no ads, no issues. And no I don’t have to pay some $750 for a ‘PlexPass’ either.
On high seas there are no ads arr… 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
Stremio your way out of it. I see so few ads in my life that it triggers me whenever I do.
Stremio is enshitifying.
https://blog.stremio.com/stremio-supporters-a-way-to-sustain-our-development/
IDK it says it will always be free and all the current features will always remain free. Sounds hood enough for me. But I agree this is something to keep an eye on.
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.
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.
They just added ads to their Maps app, I am 100% expecting them to add ads to AppleTV
Indeed, i despide apple in almost everything, but apple TV, its shows, the color pallets picked for many shows, their quality, etc is just amazing
Tim Cook sucks at this point
Careful there.
This was the plan the entire time
The end result is that advertisers dictate content, like they have done with traditional broadcast.
