(And I use “Free” loosely because I do pay for Prime Video, so it went from paid to much more expensive)
Yaaarrh
After HBO was taken over by David “Piece of Shit” Zaslav multiple shows and movies disappeared while I was in the middle of watching them. I haven’t resubscribed since
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sounds to me like all of your shows should become free. Properly free.
Remember, companies die when people stop giving them money.
Yes I’m working on ditching these billionaires. Not quite there yet, sometimes it’s a bit of a pain point with the smalah.
Hey, long as you’re working on it. I’ve been working on ripping my entire music collection from Spotify the past couple months before I tell them to go fuck themselves for the ICE ads, after ~10 years of paying for their service. I’m aiming to be done before January.
You mean it when to “They don’t want my money anymore since they removed it from the tier I was paying into, so they won’t mind me getting it in other ways”
Prime does this a lot where the first season, maybe first 2 are free, but then the rest is paid only. And that’s with a subscription.
Yes but I was finishing episode 9 of the 2nd season going into 10. Then poof, whole season 2 is $29.99. For a show with a bad rating probably because it’s so niche if you’re not from LA it’s a complete dud.
psst… hey kid! the first hit is free!
The CBS/Paramount app has always had so much tracking in it that it’s blocked by most PiHole like devices and software. Even if you pay for the no ads tier they still won’t play the video if they can’t hit the ad server.
Sometimes Prime Video in Germany also used to have only the dubbed versions of tv shows and movies. It was infuriating that I couldn’t watch the original versions. The service was also generally buggy and poorly made. I canceled Prime because it was so bad.
One of the German channels makes you pay for random episodes. So you’ll be able to watch episode 3, 9 and 11 in a season but you have to pay for the rest.
If I ever run into that scenario … that would be a great reason to raise the Jolly Roger
Yarrr. Mind you, the Germans are good at sniffing out archives and torrents.
Is it possible that season one is free and season two cost money? That’s a common tactic.
Only had youtube cutting of a clip halfway because it was suddenly set to private. The amount of clips I put in Watch Later to have them disappear is also too high. Stop recommending slop that disappears later, stupid alghorithm.
I’ve wondered if people’s watch lists are prioritized to be pay videos. The first time I saw this I wondered why my watch list was mostly pay videos: I must have misunderstood something. Do I created it again with only free shows. A year later it was mostly pay
Why were you watching it? It’s a shit… show!
No but seriously… sail, people!
flix-cli is more convenient than if you owned netflix
I had a popup for ad free Amazon, a few dollars a month, so that was relevant to my interests and I signed up, then watched a movie.
There was another popup “ad-free experience is not available for this program”
I immediately cancelled, the popup should say “here’s an ad, fuck you”
Cancel all subscriptions which are just “We own the copyright to music, tv, movies etc” and find your digital art through simple file sharing networks on the internet. FOR EXAMPLE:
Stremio + Torrentio + Real Debrid (If you don’t want to pay for real debrid it still works just can be a bit slower) A torrent streaming solution for most/all tv shows and movies. Soulseek, a file sharing platform mostly for music. I have yet to find a decent lossless streaming solution.
If you want games, Ebooks, or other kinds of media, type fmhy.net into your browser and they have a tonne of different media types and links for you to choose from. If your just starting check out there “adblocking and blocking trackers” section its a decent start for making sure you don’t get caught or anything.
we were in the middle of one of our favorite scifis when that happened. now we own the box set. then we realized it was the only reason we had that subscription. oops to them i guess.
weird… never seen that in the high seas!
join us you sea dog!
Yup. It’s all shitty these days. Just ☠️🏴☠️
You want my shows? You can have them! I left everything together in one place. Now you just have to find it!
Wait, you pay for Amazon prime and you have to pay for the show?? Why on earth…
Yeah, there’s stuff under the subscription and stuff you pay for (although you can pay for anything if you’re not a subscriber iirc)
It gives them a perverse incentive to remove shows from the subscription tier if lots of people are watching it. You also get shows where the first few seasons are in the sub, and then suddenly switches to pay for.
They’re an easy cancel.
They also show ads unless you pay more than the prime membership.
I haven’t opened prime since that day.
I cancelled it the day they announced that
Man, that’s not ok
