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by oulu2006 301 days ago
Never left bittorrent.

I really wanted to embrace streaming services, prime really killed me recently, with introducing ads into a membership that I already pay for! and 90% of movies on prime I have to pay an extra 20 bucks to view ...why am i paying for membership?
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bagol 301 days ago
Ads for a paying member? That is just... evil?
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bapak 301 days ago
Don't they have ads on pay TV too? "Free plus ads" is not the norm. In some countries you pay tax for national TV and you still get ads. Sports matches are only available on paid services and they stick as much advertising in them as they possibly can.
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croon 301 days ago
They only show ads for other shows on their own service (at least in my region), and they're skippable, but I'm not defending it, it's still bad and serves no purpose for the customer.

What bothers me more with Prime is that when I finish watching the latest episode of something, as there is no next episode, it starts playing something entirely different I have no interest in watching, which then ends up on my "Continue watching" list.

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tootie 301 days ago
It's like nobody has ever watched cable TV.
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fluoridation 301 days ago
Fun fact: cable TV also started out ad-free. The sell was you'd pay a monthly subscription and got just the content you wanted to watch. Then came the ads. Enshittification as a phenomenon didn't start in Silicon Valley.
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IlikeKitties 301 days ago
> Never left bittorrent.

Yeah, I got into low level private trackers before netflix got really big and here in germany it always had a rather lackluster library anyway. The enshitification began faster than I was willing to move. In the end i'm still just pirating everything except games and music. Games because steam is more convenient on linux than dealing with cracks, wine installers and all that stuff. Not that i'm unable just that it's literally worth the convenience to pay for it and music because spotify was better than the pirated music i had available. I'm thinking about changing that and taking the RED pill, if you catch my drift.

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SSLy 301 days ago
For music, you can only pirate to fill the gaps in Apple Music / Deezer / Tidal / Spotify / whatever.
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IlikeKitties 301 days ago
Inb4 get a better taste in music but i've yet to find a gap in spotify that matters to me. I can think of exactly two songs that are unavailable.
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SSLy 301 days ago
Burial (the one from London) has few collab track missing from music streaming apps. Some are on YT but quality is meh.
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