Looks like I’m going to finally cut my subscriptions and move my family into using selfhosted sources that I supply from the high seas. This shit is ridiculous.

[–] whofearsthenight@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's funny how every year these services get worse and worse and the prices keep going up. Netflix previously encouraging password sharing and then deciding it's not ok. Did the price drop? ofc not. Did they replace it with a better feature? No. At least getting better content? Fuck no. Repeat for literally any of them.

[–] Gailthesnail@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

another big increase is coming if/when the hollywood strike ends

[–] shirro@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

I am out of touch with piracy. I was never a media hoarder but I can't stand ads and the quality of local tv has always been shocking. I used to have a media centre with a tuner and timeshift/ad skip in the mid-2000s but was increasingly getting my tv shows from ezrv. Then I had a login with a cool nzb site but they shut down. I was accessing Netflix over my own vpn long before it was offered outside north america. Streaming was awesome for awhile and I have been happily subscribing to multiple services for years. As the number of services increased and the cost got higher I started putting them in rotation much to the annoyance of the rest of the family. Not looking forward to piracy to be honest. Going to have to relearn where best to find stuff. It was nice having content just there for the family whenever they wanted it and not having to do anything but make some payments.