Just rage canceled Paramount+ after seeing the 1 minute of unstoppable ads before each episode.
Then they’ll say people don’t want to pay for content…ffs
Yarr harr fiddle dee dee
Shiver me timbers at Hollywood’s greed.
(For the recond i don’t know what that means…)
Do what you want ‘cuz a pirate is free
Surprised that no one here mentioned Pi-hole. It doesn’t work for ads on all streaming apps, but pi-hole successfully removes all ads for my Paramount+ subscription.
I’ve used Pi-Hole for years now and it’s absolutely indispensable. It’s one of those things where you kind of forget about it then you’re over visiting someone’s house without it and it’s absolutely jarring to see ads cropping up all over the place where you’re not used to seeing them.
I know what you mean.
Browsing the Internet at work is a horrible experience. I’m actually shocked at the ad intrusion that I am usually saved from!
What’s hilarious to me is when friends visit and then always comment on how much nicer it is using their phones on my wifi.
I rarely ever need a browser for work but damn I opened it the other day to search some stuff and nearly every single article was so covered in ads I couldn’t figure out what I was supposed to be reading. 2 sides bars, an floating over head, an ad across the bottom, and some weird floating one that follows as you scroll. How are people not using ad blocks
Do you mean with your phone on company wifi?
Company laptop which is pretty much hardened so no chance of installing anything that is unapproved. No idea how people survive without an adblock.
But then they still get rewarded with your money
Controld.com also works of you don’t want to host it yourself
For us, we have to watch the unskippable ad during Star Trek Picard, then it jumps back 10 minutes in the episode so we need to fast forward to get back to our place. This has been going on for several episodes.
Ugh I hate that with YouTube ads as well (at least on my Android TV). I’ll watch something, get interrupted by ads, sometimes minutes long and/or multiple ads, and after the ad(s) it jumps seconds or even minutes ahead from where I was watching. Then when I rewind to the point I was at it’ll often play even more ads. It’s super annoying but if they think this convinces me to buy their premium subscription they’re very wrong. It’s so off-putting.
No no, you misunderstand. The subscription is so you’re allowed to watch ads. It’s a privilege! 😅
DM me if you need help setting something up to replace it
I appreciate it. I’m trying to get familiar with rss and the sort. I am just a bit scared of the rabbit hole where I’ll end up dedicating a whole room of the house to selfhosting lol
I’ve dedicated one single machine to self hosting and I never plan on increasing that. It’s just one big beefy hunk that has a shitty CPU and lots of RAM and HDD space.
Sonarr/Radarr/qBit/Plex is all that’s needed. I pay $5/mo ($15/3mo) for AirVPN and that’s all.
Im doing similar with Usenet and indexers.
Automating downloading of new stuff is so much easier. Toss in overseerr with Plex authenticated requesting… You never have to touch it. Tis amazing
You got any tutorials for that? I’ve been interested in setting something like that up for my own media library but just haven’t gotten around to it. Might make for a fun weekend project.
Snag you a micropc from Amazon for like $150 and an external HDD and you’ll be golden. Selfhosting can be as small as you want. Hell sometimes I wish I had a tiny PC and a couple of 18tb externals.
Good luck op
I use a old laptop with a 3rd gen Intel processor, probably worth less than $30 right now, with straight debian headless and it works like a charm organizing and streaming. I just avoid transcoding wherever possible.
Only one room?
Yeah but how are these poor dears supposed to create ever-increasing shareholder value with a pure subscription model?
I’ve learned that (at least on both Android and Google TV) you can start an episode, immediately go back then start a different one and there will be no ad.
On Firefox with ublock, you have to hit the play button 3-4 times, but it works and there are no ads.
I only like Paramount+ for the Italian Serie A and Champions League. A bit different cause it’s live sports but besides that I don’t utilize it too much.
We got a skippable 30 second ad, then the Paramount logo, then watched 2 seasons of Star Trek strange New worlds without a single ad.
You sure you didn’t just hair trigger yourself there?
It happened on 2 episodes in a row, with over a minite wait until the episode. Both times the same ad, which makes it even worse, for a 20 min episode of lower decks. I’m sensitive to commercials when I’m already paying premium.
I definitely feel the hatred towards all things ads, I would probably cancel as well if I was in your position. Fortunately 1 ad per session is the rare exception to my ad free viewing (and I did curse quite a bit at that ad, whatever it was for)
