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I tried my brother's disney plus... (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It made me so thankful for piracy. What an abysmal experience. First of all, I’m on mobile and they make you use the app. There is literally no way to get around it except TOR, no using browser, even on desktop mode, as somone like me who is deaf, it means I can’t have my special accessibility extensions which sucks.

So I get to the app ready to watch my show. Bam Adds! Worse than youtube! It’s like an add every 5-10min that lasts from 5-40s. Who the hell can actually enjoy a movie or a TV show in these conditions?

I was like fine, I’ll download it to watch offline then. Nope, that’s blocked now. So I figured I’d tinker with DNS and see if I could manage to block those adds. That didn’t work.

I’m so glad piracy exists. I see streming services have gone full circle. No better than paying an absurd amount for a TV channel plastered with adds. Urgh. I’ll make sure to stay away from disney restaurants now so they can’t legally kill me since I watched an episode of futurama on their platform.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What bought me back to piracy was the twatting about between several apps, only to find that what I wanted wasn't on any of them.

If they want me back, they'll have be more convenient than piracy. And piracy is pretty damn convenient these days.

We're talking one service, all content that isn't still in cinemas, 4K HDR, 5.1 audio. Let's be reasonable, £30 a month with no ads at any time. Feel free to have ad tiers and lower quality if you're charging less or even showing for free. That's not my thing, I'll pay for the good shit tier. I don't need 8 screens at once or whatever nonsense Netflix know you won't use. It's just me, and my big television and sound system.

Music managed this. There's no reason video can't other than greed. I'm done asking nicely.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

They didn't manage, they've just offer good enough for you not to care. In case of movies or series you care because they are a lot more limited

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Jellyfin and Youtube are seemingly the only web interfaces I can willingly endure.
For youtube though it's only with Premium/ublock origin and some custom filters like blocking channel membership banners.

Edit: Jellyfin is obviously a really good service :)