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Reddit Tries to Get Users to Pay by Making App Icon Ugly (9to5mac.com)
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[–] 53 points 3 years ago (21 children)

I can somewhat understand both perspectives. Although I too sail the high seas, if you don’t have the aptitude to self host, and you only care to binge a show over the weekend, $12 (or whatever it costs now) is a somewhat justifiable expense. I mean, 1 comic book is $4-$6 on average these days. One of those might provide 15 minutes of entertainment and a month of anticipation. $12 is a good value.

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  • [+] 13 points 3 years ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (14 children)
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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Because it’s available to stream NOW for $ but it may not be available LATER for $ or not

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

    Sadly my children's children won't be able to find "Is it cake? S3E5" on their grandpa's old hard drive.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    And they’re lives will worse for it /s their primary concern is where their next dose of clean water will come from

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago*

    Yeah well the first reason they won't find it is the drive melted away in the heat wave of 37', got blown up in the second War of the Rhine in 39', and since 52' lies at the bottom of the Central European Ocean.

    But also because I streamed instead of torrenting.

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

    Well, sure… not everyone has to self host to see what they want to see either, but my reasoning remains the same. The people signing up and paying for Netflix all of a sudden likely lack the aptitude or don’t care enough. I got a sandwich yesterday that was > $12.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

    Mostly because if you set it up right it's near entirely automated and you don't have to worry about media availability on your subscribed service.

    Edit: also a lot of the time we (Canada) miss out on a lot of content on streaming services

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

    A big part of it for me was seeing streaming companies removing episodes due to "modern sensibilities". Multiple censored IASIP episodes, removing the D&D episode of Community. I think this is going to happen more and more and I want all the content. Not just what was approved by some diversity group.

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

    The strange thing, to me atleast, is that you can even just stream shows and movies on websites like bflix with subtitles for every language. I have friends and family that would pay netflix their left leg if they asked them to. And now they're stuck with a bunch of subscriptions to multiple streaming services because everything is split between multiple platforms.

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

    Is there any risk to streaming movies in bflix? Do you need anything special to use that site (like a VPN)? There is a little knowledge barrier to doing things like this.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Honestly not really. Torrents expose your ip directly to everyone downloading and uploading the torrent. But only the website itself sees your ip. Companies will join the torrent and add your ip to a list. Then ask your isp to send you a notice. With a website, companies cant see who is watching on a streaming website.

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