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The end result is that advertisers dictate content, like they have done with traditional broadcast.
Is IPTV piracy just a European thing then?
My friend here in the States has it. He let me use it for a while. It’s really cool, but finding an IPTV service that’s reliable is a real challenge.
Go to Chinese amazon, search for android boxes and ask for a test they will give you a code. Use tivimax premium as your app, said to be the best.
Tivimate is THE app for IPTV on Android. But it seems providers are scarce in the US so regardless of software that is a problem.
I must be living a very luxurious life then. Jellyfin has kept the same price for ad-free ‘streaming’, as has Stremio (so far).
Never seen adds in the last 2 decades.
I mean… I wouldn’t say that the 3€ I pay for my torbox monthly are so much money as to be considered a luxury but I guess not everyone can afford that much for a sub…
I haven’t watched something with ads in it for many years.
Y’all know how.
Only time is when I stay in hotels and watch their cable. It’s so weird and insulting after freeing myself from them for so long. It breaks up the pace and basically ruins the entire experience.
Maybe look into getting a GL.inet travel router with WiFi and a Chromecast/Android stick. I use that when I travel. Setup a WiFi network on the travel router and setup the Chromecast on it for when you’re at the hotel.
At the hotel, either jack the travel router into a network port then use your phone to sign in to the hotel’s network, or configure Repeater/WISP to get the travel router to connect to and re-broadcast the hotel WiFi (again using your phone or PC to sign in). Going Repeater/WISP brings a sizeable performance hit due to the lack of radios but it’s definitely do-able.
If you’re hosting Jellyfin externally, job done. If not, you can configure OpenVPN/Wireguard on the travel router and your home router and connect privately that way.
Source: Tech worker who had a requirement to be overseas 80% of the year in different hotels :)
https://www.gl-inet.com/collections/travel-routers
https://wifirepeater.org/openwrt-wisp-repeater-mode-configuration/
Add free streaming is a myth now.
-there I corrected it
Yeah. When I heard about cable (as a kid because I heard you paid for it), I imagined it was ad free. And then when I became an adult and experienced cable, I was super disappointed and it made me mildly upset.
I prefer minuses too.
“Piracy is a service problem.”
We have a service problem.
When was it not?
When nearly everything was on Netflix for less than $10 a month and you could share it. So for a year or two.
And how was that not a luxury?
Cheap and readily available things are not luxuries.
So your risk is not that it’s a “luxury”, it’s that it’s too expensive? Who decides what is “cheap”? Are you aware that they were running at a loss that whole time?
firefox and ublock~
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Stremio your way out of it. I see so few ads in my life that it triggers me whenever I do.
Stremio is enshitifying.
https://blog.stremio.com/stremio-supporters-a-way-to-sustain-our-development/
Preach it, brother.
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… Ublock origin, Jellyfin.
