Not even ad tiers are safe as Disney looks to coax people into bundle packages.

45 points

The path to sailing the 7 seas under the Jolly Roger is well marked

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The price of my VPN hasn’t gone up, not once in the last eight years lol

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Lucky you, I’ve had to swap VPN providers on multiple occasions due to them dropping support for Port forwarding, which in turn breaks your ability to use it for torrenting

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38 points

Are these people stupid? Their competition is literally free and improving all the time.

If you are having trouble affording these services please check out jellyfin.

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Not to mention “trash guides”.

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Well, not free per se, DVDs and Blurays and the computer in my closet I use to host Jellyfin for the rest of the home do cost money… But they sure as hell can’t jack up the price after the fact. Quite the contrary; the hardware needed for it is getting cheaper over time. I can also use it even when the internet is down.

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They are shooting themselves in the foot. Meanwhile Blurays can be had for cheap

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12 points

piracy can be had for free

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4 points

Only if you are ok with piracy

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7 points

i mean with how these big media people treat us

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13 points

Once a service introduces a sub + ad tier it’s over and obvious they are just as greedy as cable TV and racing down the same path. I can’t support that. Mostly sticking to physical media these days but still have a couple streams that are sub only no ads or ads without any subscription.

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