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Yo ho, yo ho off to the digital seas we go!
In fairness, I can see a use case for this as something to have on in the background while doing other tasks or as a way to discover new content either the algorithms would have never shown you or you might not have clicked on. But, I can also see the service providers using this to further try to show-horn ads into everything and fuck up the current system of "pick a show I want to watch and watch it now". In which case, it's once again time for them to learn that piracy isn't so much a price problem as a service one.
I have started pirating heavily again after years of not doing it. I set up a VPN container and a qbittorrent container that shares the VPN container's network, so VPN is always running for qbittorrent, but it isn't affecting the rest of my server. Then I log into a webpage on my local network and download whatever I want. The volume mount I chose for the download directory is my Plex directory, so it automatically gets put on Plex.
It's honestly easier to pirate than to search for which streaming service something is on. When I pirate, everything is in the same place.
You also don't have to worry about it fucking disappearing on you unless you have a drive failure.