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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.
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.
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.
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… 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
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
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The end result is that advertisers dictate content, like they have done with traditional broadcast.
Stremio + Real-Debrid = adfree streaming.
JellyFin + your own media = ad free streaming. I detest ads and general streaming services. Whenever you want to talk about a show, you have to preface it with ‘what streaming service is it on’?
And you can watch it when your internet is down.
This will be the way for me going forward building storage and library. I’d rather don’t watch something than watch with ads.
firefox and ublock~
Is IPTV piracy just a European thing then?
My friend here in the States has it. He let me use it for a while. It’s really cool, but finding an IPTV service that’s reliable is a real challenge.
Go to Chinese amazon, search for android boxes and ask for a test they will give you a code. Use tivimax premium as your app, said to be the best.
Tivimate is THE app for IPTV on Android. But it seems providers are scarce in the US so regardless of software that is a problem.
Yeah, follow the instructions and get direct access you dont need a reseller. I pay 35 a year for everything available direct to a seller on one of the chinese marketplace sites
