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Amazon To Start Running Ads In Prime Video Series and Movies, Will Launch Ad-Free Tier For Extra Fee (deadline.com)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 213 points 3 years ago (25 children)

With Netflix already having ads we are now 75% of the way to "cutting the cord" going back to reinventing cable again.

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  • [–] 186 points 3 years ago (10 children)

    And that's why people started sailing the high seas again.

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  • [–] 45 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    My NAS is my best friend.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    https://youtu.be/Th6PW5VwDFI?si=EvzuXbkiQGoeTW3C

    Honestly everytime I have to feel proud for sailing I dance like an idiot while the magnet links are being being pasted on the real debrid

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Indeed.

    • Ad-blocking (before anything online)
    • DHT crawler, or index sites if DHT has too many results
    • right-click/long-press on magnet URL
    • copy link
    • paste magnet link
    • remove tracker URLs (not needed)
    • go
    • enjoy

    Hm, 8 steps, is one more than the 7 stages of grief; but I'll take this over yet-another subscription service that continually degrades in quality for the dollar.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    if it was still just netflix, and everybody didn't have their own streaming service, that would be different.

    but when you add up netflix, prime, disney, paramount, peacock, max, and whatever else, the wallet definitely says it's just like cable.

    do one at a time and rotate, maybe have one you 'always' have. you can't watch 10 different services at once anyway.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (9 children)

    "Again"?

    I've still been out here since Napster. Welcome back aboard, we kept the torrents warm for you.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I like something I saw on here awhile ago that was something like " streaming services where only successful because they where slightly more convenient that pirating " for a while I mostly used a couple of streaming services despite most of the apps having really bad interfaces . But my Plex server has been growing in size lately while the streaming services are being cancelled.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    My breaking point for paying for something that I could otherwise get for free is convenience. Doesn't even need to be a lot, I just refuse to pay for a product that artificially more of a hassle than the identical product that I can obtain for free.

    It's not so much that I want a superior product, it's that I refuse to pay money for an inferior alternative.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    What are the cool kids using these days?

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