cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24467641
Can’t be quizzed over ads if you pirate everything.
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2025
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Piracy is a hassle, the convenience of streaming made the cost worthwhile. They've forgotten this. Once the cost outweighs the convenience, the hassle won't seem like such a hassle anymore.
As a person who uses stremio; not only is it not more of a hassle than streaming services, it's WAY less. Astronomically so. You set it up once and you have literally everything
Only upfront effort. Downloading is almost as much of a hassle as choosing what to play tonight.
Once it's on the disk it's fair game.
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You can pirate the ads and quizzes
A friend of mine in college pirated a japanese show which included the ads. The first episode seemed to have subs with legitimate translations. The rest of the season the subtitle author had fun and changed them to make fun of the ads. It was pretty funny.
There were no quizzes though...
I would love to watch that.
I was wondering how I should prepare for the tests
do they make you keep watching the ad until you get it right?
Aaaannnnd this just resolidifies my decision to not engage with streaming services. What a load of shit.
It's finally here...
And the example they use is a guy shooting another guy on TV.
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Its the second comercial
America, Fuck Yeah
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I'd cancel any service that did this to me.
Right? We don't have nice things because we put up with bull crap.
Immediate uninstall and cancel.
Fuck that.
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I already don’t subscribe to Hulu, but I want to do my part to fight this.
Is there something I can do actively to cost them money?
hulu is owned by disney. encourage canceling disney+ too just for good measure
Full refund.
They went full ret*rd, I want full refund.
(I know you can cuss on the internet, but that word has some baggage...)
Je suis en retard aujourd'hui
Is this fucking real? Get fucked, mainstream media, if this is the case. Plenty of books and old games to keep me occupied until Alzheimers hits, and then occupied again afterwards
This isn't mainstream media.
This is capitalism.
This is a company making a product, selling it for a given price, then making additional money from embedded ads.
Whether that ad revenue is additional profit, or to offset the actual cost of the item - because the sold it at a loss to beat their competitors - doesn't really matter.
This is the consumer paying for something, and not getting a full and complete product
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Extremely infuriating. Fuck that, pirate hat stays firmly in place.
Yep my media server is better quality and I can share it with my friends
Despicable
Arrr, what dickery be this "Hulu"?
These companies are insufferable.
I have one TV for my PC monitor and one for, well, TV. Both hardwired to the network, no external network access. Wrote a quick PS script to switch from one to the other or both, made it into an EXE with buttons, très chic. Everything streams off a crappy USB drive "RAID" array. OpenVPN server with Digital Ocean, hosted in Amsterdam, $6/month. DONE.
I'm not on some crusade against capitalism, I simply choose not to participate in bullshit like this.
tl;dr: STEAL YO SHIT.
I wish I was technically savy enough to do any of this.
Unfortunately I am cursed, I break shit and hate having to spend hours working out what's fucked on my computer.
TV's wifi card shit itself, problem solved pulled out replaced.
Computer wouldn't boot cause reason number 432 (actually the flash on the MB said fault reserved for future fault finding) hours of struggling.
Perhaps you're a bogon emitter like my wife?
Learn more here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_bogodynamics
Charles Stross put it succinctly in The Atrocity Archives:
Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.
This explains why computers suddenly start to work when help arrives. Becoming a bogon sink takes much suffering and practice. You're already on the path.
I kept reading this as bogan too haha
Its honestly getting to the point now where doing these home setups are so much simpler than owning these proprietary streaming boxes which have everything locked up to serve you ads or just steal data in general.
Hooking a PC up to the TV even to watch the paid services is probably better at this point.
Throw in an ad blocker like a Pi-hole. Life changing. FFS, $10 a month on AWS and you can spin a Lightsail instance, or roll your own on a toaster.
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If you answer wrong, what does it do? Refuse to show you any more of the program you are paying them to provide?
Oh wait, I know. It shows another ad, right? That's gotta be it. We'll keep showing you ads until you fucking pay attention!
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That image is 100% the academic quadrangle at Simon Fraser University. Hah.
holy fucking shit and people give me the "you're a bad person" side-eye when i tell them there is such an easy way to never deal with that bullshit ever
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