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All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by ForgottenFlux to c/technology

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Below is a look at the most exasperating news from streaming services from this week. The scale of this article demonstrates how fast and frequently disappointing streaming news arises. Coincidentally, as we wrote this article, another price hike was announced.

We'll also examine each streaming platform's financial status to get an idea of what these companies are thinking (spoiler: They're thinking about money).

Netflix starts killing its cheapest ad-free plan in June

Sony bumps Crunchyroll prices weeks after shuttering Funimation

Peacock is raising prices

Fubo cuts 19 channels

In a seemingly desperate push, many streaming services prioritize revenue and profits ahead of building the best streaming service for customers.

We could go on about how this might force people to reconsider their subscriptions, but we should publish before another service makes yet another policy change.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I haven’t done this myself because it’s obviously very illegal, but I’ve been told you set up a server with docker and set up the following containers:

gluetun for VPN (exit in Switzerland with a fallback to Spain) as these countries have the laxest regulation re downloading licensed media.
radarr for film
sonarr for tv
other *arr instances for subtitles, music, ebooks etc
qbittorrent piped through the Gluetun container
jellyfish, plex or XBMC in front as a player.

But what do I know? I haven’t done it myself and only download large Linux distributions because I love distro-hopping.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You can also do all these in Windows. They have installers. Recommend Prowlarr for having all your torrent sites in one interface rather than setting them up repeatedly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I’ve been told some use an app called LunaSea to to manage their arr instances. Apparently it brings all the arrs under one simple interface.

[–] offspec 3 points 7 months ago

That sounds unnecessarily painful

[–] NineMileTower 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don’t really know what any of that means except for qbittorrent

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Me neither as I haven’t done it.

But apparently it basically creates your own Netflix. You write a title you’d like to watch and within minutes you get a notification that it’s there, ready.

[–] NineMileTower 1 points 7 months ago

It's a shame you've never done it. Maybe someone here has a link to some sort of tutorial for a criminal that wants to do it. Not me, just someone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Do you hear anything about how those people pay for the VPN, or does that not come up?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Most people I speak to about this assume that the "good VPN" provider can be trusted not to keep logs.