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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] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They have an ad plan and an ad-free plan for different costs. I personally couldn't ever imagine myself paying for the privilege of watching ads (and I do pay for D+), but, ¯_(ツ)_/¯

D+ works fine for me on my old cheap Android box, my Nvidia SHIELD and our AppleTV, so I think the 'slow and clunky' part might be a Roku specific issue.
The app design choices though are a mess in other ways. There isn't a 'mark as watched' option, so when it doesn't mark that you watched something (which happens semi-frequently), it attempts to start you on an episode you've already watched and you've got to fast forward through it. It doesn't have 'continue watching' so unless your show is brand new, you've gotta go through the menus to re-find the thing you're watching. It's "pretty" enough at first glance and looks good, but actual usability is not great at all.

Plex & Jellyfin definitely have the better experience, for sure.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

‘slow and clunky’ part might be a Roku specific issue

Almost certainly. I have a couple of them and they're like, fine, but the app quality is uneven AF. They're written by the provider and/or some random 3rd party, so some apps work well, some work poorly, and some are flaming piles of crap.

The Disney app being a flaming pile does not, however, surprise me in the least.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Interesting details. I've thought about Roku's a few times and the app quality has always been the thing people seem to complain about, so I've just avoided them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I mean, for a $15 thing that does 4k your options are pretty much a Roku, or whatever Amazon's thing is called.

I'd MUCH rather have the Roku. And the Plex and Jellyfin apps work great, so what else do you need ;)