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I’d cancel any service that did this to me.
Immediate uninstall and cancel.
Fuck that.
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I already don’t subscribe to Hulu, but I want to do my part to fight this.
Is there something I can do actively to cost them money?
Help teach other people to pirate
It was a pretty good few years, but unfortunately the enshitification was a slow and painful burn at the end there…
I found the answer! It’s https://help.hulu.com/article/hulu-cancel-hulu-subscription
And while you’re at it, you should also try this:
Okay, let’s not go mad. This is a streaming service. They are greedy assholes but they aren’t actively killing people.
Meh, I like this better.
Is this fucking real? Get fucked, mainstream media, if this is the case. Plenty of books and old games to keep me occupied until Alzheimers hits, and then occupied again afterwards
I would immediately cancel any service that does that.
I actively avoid advertising. I’ve cancelled Amazon prime now it has advertising.
I got Sky’s Internet TV here in the UK - a supposedly premium service yet the first VOD demand show I streamed I found it had adverts and you had to pay more to be able to fast forward through them. I immediately cancelled.
These companies are greedy as fuck, and driven by the stupidity of always trying to be “growing” to grow their share prices. That just means always trying to save money and take more money from their customers. Enshittification is a result of the stupidity of the stock markets.
It’s as if they want you to torrent stuff again.
And funnily I feel less worse than the last time (before netflix arose)…
Yep and its never going to get better if you stay, only worse
Can’t be quizzed over ads if you pirate everything.
You can pirate the ads and quizzes
A friend of mine in college pirated a japanese show which included the ads. The first episode seemed to have subs with legitimate translations. The rest of the season the subtitle author had fun and changed them to make fun of the ads. It was pretty funny.
There were no quizzes though…
I would love to watch that.
I was wondering how I should prepare for the tests
Piracy is a hassle, the convenience of streaming made the cost worthwhile. They’ve forgotten this. Once the cost outweighs the convenience, the hassle won’t seem like such a hassle anymore.
As a person who uses stremio; not only is it not more of a hassle than streaming services, it’s WAY less. Astronomically so. You set it up once and you have literally everything
Only upfront effort. Downloading is almost as much of a hassle as choosing what to play tonight.
Once it’s on the disk it’s fair game.Back in my day, it was a much more involved process.
Once it’s on the disk it’s fair game.
Do people really rewatch stuff that often?
Fair game as in “What do I watch today” because the movie was already pre-loaded.
Kodi, Seren add-on and a debrid provider like Premiumize gets me better service than any streaming provider. Multiple source streams on any show in the last couple decades and every movie way earlier than is available from any source I’ve ever seen. If its not available as a cached stream, I can queue a torrent file at their end and stack them up until I’m ready to watch it, but I’ve rarely had to do that.
To be fair, the last time I flew the jolly Roger was over a decade ago. Finding a stream/torrent that:
- Wasn’t potato quality
- Had seeders
- Wasn’t shut down since last time
- Wouldn’t give you a virus
- Was actually the thing you were looking for (I did not have sexual relations with that woman)
was a much more time consuming process.
The only streamer I’ve ever paid for was Netflix but I only got a few years out of that before it became easier to pirate again. Frankly, the Arr suite is a pain in the ass compared to the above method.
sadface today
That just saved me a lengthy troubleshoot with the wife while I’m on the road, she was texting me to say Kodi wasn’t giving her sources when your message showed up on my Lemmy client.
Thank you, good timing.
I can say issues only happen briefly if ever. Am 5 years in.
Prob resolved ~50 mins of me having posted this of course I didn’t update with uptime update. 😅
I was thinking it was the Trakt.TV free tier changes myself at first.
It’s not a hassle at all. I use my phone to tell my computer what I’m interested in watching. It automatically downloads that, and when I’m ready to watch something it streams to my TV. After I’m done with it, my computer removes it.
Please drink the verification can
I’m pretty over the whole “4chan dystopian joke becomes real life” thing. Corpo dickheads, you can stop now.
Extremely infuriating. Fuck that, pirate hat stays firmly in place.
Yep my media server is better quality and I can share it with my friends
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Somewhere someone thought this was a good idea.
Fuck that individual specifically, fuck head…
We need a name
Das Capital.
If you are paying for this shit, you are part of the problem.
Aaaannnnd this just resolidifies my decision to not engage with streaming services. What a load of shit.
They’re really doing everything in their power to destroy their own business model, aren’t they?
I’m always a bit dumbfounded how many people are apparently fine with this sort of thing. I wish this was obviously a death sentence or pr nightmare for the service but in practice it must not be for a lot of people, enough to make it worth attempting.
Seeing some of those idiots even in the comments on fucking Lemmy of all places is crazy.
This is squeezing money out of a dying service. That’s all.
Hulu is, IIRC, mostly owned by Disney and on its way out. But it was always in an awkward place, without the critical mass of Netflix or some other giant tech/content ecosystem (Amazon, Apple, Disney and such) to push it. In hindsight, it’s kinda laughable that anyone thought it would last.
They are owned by the cable company, so who knows.
hulu is owned by disney. encourage canceling disney+ too just for good measure
- Ditch all paid streaming apps.
- Research how Stremio, Torrentio, and Real-Debrid work together.
- Never pay to see ads ever again.
Except you have to watch out and buy TVs that don’t show ads by themselves these days…
To prevent this from happening, you should always check RTINGS first before buying a TV (or any electronics, for that matter). Scroll down to the “Ad-Free” section for the review of the TV you’re considering.
Never heard of that place before, thank you. It looks quite promising!
Am I behind the times? I don’t use a television. I use a desktop computer with monitors. The television itself will show ads.?
Exactly, it’s really the perfect combination, to be honest. For what? $3 a month? Outrageous?
Or go to one of the streaming websites like 123 movies or whatnot and use an ad blocker. Same experience to an extent.
It’s €16 for 6 months of all the content you could ever care to stream, delivered straight to your living room. So yeah, about $2.75/mo USD for 1000x more content than any other streaming platform. Deal of the century.
I should also mention that the addon support for Stremio is huge, allowing you to customize your feed exactly how you like it. A good addon for example is Trakt.tv, which recommendeds content based on your viewing habits. Perfect for people who are too dependent on Netflix/Disney/Max/YouTube/etc. and their algorithms (me).
As the icing on the cake, Stremio also has HDR & Dolby Atmos support. Great for home theater geeks like me.
it’s very difficult for me to describe to other people how good this setup is. it’s not “check home assistant” good. it’s not “use 1password to store your passwords” good. it’s almost “just download more ram” good
