Not on my media server it ain't.
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I appreciate the article points out AppleTV as being the only one without ads at this point. They also have great shows and the fidelity of the video is good.
Tim Cook sucks at this point, but who ever is running the TV business is doing a good job.
Indeed, i despide apple in almost everything, but apple TV, its shows, the color pallets picked for many shows, their quality, etc is just amazing
They just added ads to their Maps app, I am 100% expecting them to add ads to AppleTV
I have hated Apple since Jobs was alive and being a dickhead to his employees. With that being said, Widow's Bay was pretty damn awesome. I sure as shit didn't pay for it though.
Maybe I should start running ads on my jellyfin server. Something like "want unlimited bluey for a weekend? Clear and load the dishwasher twice this week"
Or "want +16 content? Start being an adult and use the toilet brush"
Ngl that might work on me, gating Bluey behind the dishwasher. At least until the obsession ran out.
You may have just become your parents
some time ago I saw an homeassistant customizatoin where the smartplug for TV would turn on only after the child confirmed they completed a bunch of tasks (homework, putting away toys etc). Sure they could "cheat" but that would just trigger a total ban for a month.
Borrowing this idea.
I saw great potential in streaming. Then physical media started to evaporate. Then everyone started to have their own streaming platform. Then came the ads.
By the time I could have afforded them, it got enshittified. Back to swashbuckling I guess.
Was the plan all along. You gotta pay the same price, but now also watch ads and have it all gone once you stop paying for subscriptions.
In the golden age of television, advertisers paid for the production of content and used the content to sell their wares by placing "commercials" within. Now they no longer produce content but have made deals with the content creators to insert their ads, while the end user, the consumer of content, suffers for it.
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I:m so used to block ads on every platform I use. That everytime I'm forced to use an infected version of said platform I'm shocked by the amount of ads that are being shuved down your throat.
It’s kinda ironic that verge is also paywalled. I guess at least is not ad-walled.
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/
"Piracy is a service problem."
We have a service problem.
Paywall
That's why I subscribe to Jellyfin Plus Pro Premium Ad-Free.
The others had their chance. They chose greed.
Jellyfin Plus Pro Premium Ad-Free truly is the best service available. My favorite part is it's streaming service agnostic, I actually own the media, and it's immune from a corporation taking media away from the particular streaming service because they wanted to make their own streaming service!
The verge: "it started with ads and blabla".
No.
It started when people were pirating and life was good. Then the streaming came with a good product and a fair price -> people agreed with that and people stopped pirating.
Companies started to enshitify the product, we are now at this point.
I am not suggesting you what to do.
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just fucking torrent it all you losers. a vpn sub is cheaper than netflix.
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I must be living a very luxurious life then. Jellyfin has kept the same price for ad-free 'streaming', as has Stremio (so far).
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Lemmy: Arrrr!
Big Tech: take away their PC and give them some completely locked down box fully under our control, to protect the children of course. And no more physical media!
The only answer to that is probably board games and books.
Good luck with that. I still have functional PCs that are 20 yrs old and perfectly fine as Jellyfin servers.
Team Arrrr here. ;-)
Holy shit! Now I got it why they are called Sonarr, Radarr, etc... 🤦♂️
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or just go to your local library where they have 1000s of dvds/blu rays for you to borrow for free
My library does streaming now, don’t even need to make the trip, it’s pretty awesome.
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Never seen adds in the last 2 decades.
Yet one more thing pushing people to Piracy...
There is nothing more maddening than advertising during a show that wasn't written for commercial breaks.
Yet one more thing pushing people to Piracy…
Piracy is the poor doing what the rich do all the time.
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/
IDK it says it will always be free and all the current features will always remain free. Sounds hood enough for me. But I agree this is something to keep an eye on.
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It really is. I've been using an Nvidia Shield for my living room TV. All of a sudden this week it showed a Lidl ad right there on the homescreen. Those fuckers. Replacement is on its way, fuck Nvidia.
- That's Google, not Nvidia
- Just install another launcher like Projectivity
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