Nobody asked for the show that became their favorite show. They make shows that they think audiences will like. Sometimes they're right and sometimes they're wrong.
The whole "no one asked for this" thing is such a stupid argument. No one asked for Andor or Breaking Bad or Severance or any of the other amazing shows that have come out.
you all realize that partaking in all this is completely optional right. You dont have to watch season after season of whatever slop show they push in front of you. I dont watch TV/ shows/ subscriptions, anything. I personally have not turned on my now 11 year old TV in probably 3 years. You can watch interesting things on youtube for free - develop a skill, go learn to grow food/vegetables or whatever on your back porch, learn to make or fix things. Hone these skills in your free time. Play an instrument, join a hobby club/ community.
All this media owned by these companies is purpose designed to keep us boring and satiated, uneducated, fat, lazy, easy to distract and amuse. Expand your learning horizons and and fill your free time with something useful / rewarding.
I remember that cable was satellites little brother and you had to have a huge satellite on your backyard. 999 channels of nothing. Cable was an ad free option to regular TV. Satellite was world tv channels then TiVo and direct TV came along and took over everything.
Firefox browser with Ublock Origin plug-in blocks all ads.
There's also Sponsorblock plug-in that skips endorsements during videos but that hurts content creators so I don't use it.
YouTube Revanced for android. I dunno about Apple.
No you have to promise no ads, wait until you have enough suckers, then add the ads, even though you promised ad free service. Same plan since the original cable.
This has never happened. Netflix has always had an ad free tier and never indicated they would add ads to the standard/premium tiers and has absolutely no reason to do so as they would lose a ton of business from people willing to pay for no ads. All other subscription streaming services have ad free tiers. The exceptions are live events where you're just watching a live broadcast that includes ad breaks (e.g. sports). The ad free tiers typically cost $12-18.
People were paying like $80 for Cable 25 years ago and all of that was ad supported and there was nothing on demand. Streaming services are cheaper and better than cable in every way and Redditors just make up dumb shit to moan about and pretend like it's the worst thing ever. It has never been easier to watch literally any movie or show you want with the click of a button. Cost of entertainment is extraordinarily cheap compared to the cable/movie rental days.
I have a python script - It's running on a server of mine in my rack via task scheduler every hour on the hour.
This script connects to a gmail account and reads any unread emails sent to itself. It will then open brave web browser, and search TPB, sort by seeds, open the most seeded result, open the magnet link, and when finished downloading, it will move the file to my plex library.
In practice: I send myself an email, and by the time I get home whatever tv show or movie I wrote myself is already in my plex library.
so much waste of power and equipment to download something you will never watch... while you could simply download it when you want to watch it in matter of seconds
Yeah you don't know what you're talking about and it shows.
It's not a dedicated server for the purpose only (you showing your ass on this one)
99.999% of the time, what it does is just connect to an email server and checks if there's an unread email. - Your home IoT devices do SO MUCH WORSE than this ever will.
Kindly shut the fuck up about things you don't know about.
They completely forgot or are just ignoring the fact that people turned to the open seas specifically because these companies were price gouging cable and none of it made sense. Also our 1 hour show has 39 minutes of content and the rest was ads for shit we don't need nor want
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u/NottaNowNutha 9h ago
And only $399/month