(And I use “Free” loosely because I do pay for Prime Video, so it went from paid to much more expensive)
Yaaarrh
Much like I paid for a year subscription, then they decided I had to watch ads on that plan unless I upgraded to the new plan.
The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it*
Submitted 12 hours ago by northernlights@lemmy.today to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Oaksey@lemmy.world 28 minutes ago
ohlaph@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
The open seas is calling you.
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
ARR YE MATEY! TAKE TO THE SEAS, YE LANDLUBBER, AND PAY FOR YOUTUBE PREMIUM! ARR! TIS A FINE SERVICE, AND TIS ONLY $15 A MONTH! ARR! A PIRATE’S LIFE FOR ME!
Jarix@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
It’s like the grocery stores that have digital price tags on them that they can adjust at anytime. They totally going to do surge pricing and other bullshit. I complete expect oh you picked up that item? Purchase just gotta up as soon as it’s touched
makyo@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Sail with us on the great ship Stremio
potustheplant@feddit.nl 3 hours ago
Stremio kind of sucks. You’re leeching a torrent you’ll never seed.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Haha jellyfin goes brrrrrrr
Bwaz@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Canceled Prime earlier this year. Haven’t missed it, can certainly do without ut.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 34 minutes ago
Did you say “I would have waited an eternity for this” when you cancelled?
hperrin@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
Now is a great time to look into VPNs, 1337x, and uTorrent. And of course Jellyfin.
PearOfJudes@lemmy.ml 54 minutes ago
or stremio + Torrentio + Real debrid, this is an easier method for those used to streaming without space on their pc
underisk@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
or just get a decent adblocker and stream it.
Psythik@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Nah fuck all that. Just get Stremio + Torrentio
MBech@feddit.dk 8 hours ago
Problem with that is, what happens when Stremio gets shut down like every other illegal streaming platform to date? What happens when they no longer want to host the stuff I like?
I like having the files locally, so that when streaming platforms die, og just decide not to waste server space on the stuff I like, I can still watch the shows and movies that are no longer avaliable anywhere.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
The problem with Stremio is that it relies on torrents, but only caches the content you’re watching. Essentially, it puts you into a permanent leecher mode, and rarely contributes any meaningful seeding because the content is deleted shortly after you’re done watching it.
Stremio users are the libertarians of the piracy world. They’re staunchly independent, but also completely reliant on the infrastructure that seeders have set up and maintain. They want all of their content available conveniently, without actually putting in any of the “pay it forward” work that piracy relies on to stay healthy.
Essentially, if everyone used Stremio, nobody would be able to use Stremio. Stremio is only possible because of the people who actually seed.
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Been having luck with ext.to as well
TheBat@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I prefer torrentleech and milkie. Both are regularly open for new registrations.
yucandu@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
1337x is run by nazis.
viking@infosec.pub 6 hours ago
Source?
Also (and this is a genuine question): Why would I care? They don’t earn anything from me. Does their political affiliation matter when it comes to sourcing copyrighted material?
murmelade@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
Ruski streaming site + adblocker works well for me lately
justaman123@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I just got into Kodi/umbrella/deribit
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Stremio+Alldebrid
dan1101@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
This is shitty, but as a programmer I’m kinda impressed.
tempest@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
I mean those video players lazy load so it probably just requested the next chunk and got the “you gotta pay response” same as if you returned to a specific spot with a link after a long time.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I had a popup for ad free Amazon, a few dollars a month, so that was relevant to my interests and I signed up, then watched a movie.
There was another popup “ad-free experience is not available for this program”
I immediately cancelled, the popup should say “here’s an ad, fuck you”
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 11 hours ago
all shows are free if you sail the high seas
Jhex@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
weird… never seen that in the high seas!
join us you sea dog!
Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
The Amazon Prime model is the scummiest. At least Netflix doesn’t bait you into a subscription just to then tell you actually the show you wanted to see costs even more.
nogooduser@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
To play devil’s advocate:
The Netflix equivalent of this is that the show just disappears (the Marvel shows) or you get the first seasons and not the last or even the last and not the first (at one time Prime had part of Lucifer and Netflix had the rest).
The only reason that it went from free to paid (instead of just disappearing) is that they lost the licence for streaming it under Prime Video but they didn’t lose the licence for selling it.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
I doesn’t really make a difference whether it was the actual platform or a higher decision; the end result is pissed off fans that turn to piracy instead of giving you money. Then those fans give you even less in the future. There will always be some that just say ‘fuck it’ and pay up, but it’s diminishing returns.
This bullshit is exactly how pirates are born.
AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social 5 hours ago
I mean, for Lucifer it made sense, since first three seasons were under Fox. God, I wish Netflix didn’t “save” that show. At least it would have ended on a cliff hanger instead of a total destruction of the entire show. shakes fist angrily 4 years after the show has ended
BorgDrone@feddit.nl 9 hours ago
Why do they even have limited time licenses? This doesn’t happen for music streaming services.
Akido37@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
There is a subset of shows and movies unavailable on a Netflix subscription with ads.
p0q@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Yeah I was gonna say, aCtuAlLy Netflix does this shit too.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
Yup. It’s all shitty these days. Just ☠️🏴☠️
minorkeys@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Your suffering is not a KPI so it doesn’t matter.
justaman123@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The annoying thing I’ve noticed is that they have been making the last season of shows cost money. I was like what just happened, I thought there was a whole nother episode
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
After HBO was taken over by David “Piece of Shit” Zaslav multiple shows and movies disappeared while I was in the middle of watching them. I haven’t resubscribed since
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
Arrrrrr
n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
While you where watching it as in between episodes or actually in the middle of an episode?
northernlights@lemmy.today 1 hour ago
I paused a little before the end of S2E09, came back a few hours later to it, and all of S2 was not free anymore.
archonet@lemy.lol 11 hours ago
sounds to me like all of your shows should become free. Properly free.
Remember, companies die when people stop giving them money.
northernlights@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
Yes I’m working on ditching these billionaires. Not quite there yet, sometimes it’s a bit of a pain point with the smalah.
archonet@lemy.lol 8 hours ago
Hey, long as you’re working on it. I’ve been working on ripping my entire music collection from Spotify the past couple months before I tell them to go fuck themselves for the ICE ads, after ~10 years of paying for their service. I’m aiming to be done before January.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
we were in the middle of one of our favorite scifis when that happened. now we own the box set. then we realized it was the only reason we had that subscription. oops to them i guess.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 7 hours ago
Only had youtube cutting of a clip halfway because it was suddenly set to private. The amount of clips I put in Watch Later to have them disappear is also too high. Stop recommending slop that disappears later, stupid alghorithm.
AA5B@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I’ve wondered if people’s watch lists are prioritized to be pay videos. The first time I saw this I wondered why my watch list was mostly pay videos: I must have misunderstood something. Do I created it again with only free shows. A year later it was mostly pay
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Prime sucks like that.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 hours ago
Prime does this a lot where the first season, maybe first 2 are free, but then the rest is paid only. And that’s with a subscription.
northernlights@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
Yes but I was finishing episode 9 of the 2nd season going into 10. Then poof, whole season 2 is $29.99. For a show with a bad rating probably because it’s so niche if you’re not from LA it’s a complete dud.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
One of the German channels makes you pay for random episodes. So you’ll be able to watch episode 3, 9 and 11 in a season but you have to pay for the rest.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
If I ever run into that scenario … that would be a great reason to raise the Jolly Roger
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 11 hours ago
psst… hey kid! the first hit is free!
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
The CBS/Paramount app has always had so much tracking in it that it’s blocked by most PiHole like devices and software. Even if you pay for the no ads tier they still won’t play the video if they can’t hit the ad server.
Pechente@feddit.org 11 hours ago
Sometimes Prime Video in Germany also used to only have dubbed versions of tv shows and movies. It was infuriating that I couldn’t watch the original versions. The service was also generally buggy and poorly made. I canceled Prime because it was so bad.
huquad@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
You want my shows? You can have them! I left everything together in one place. Now you just have to find it!
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Prime are bastards about this.
nerdschleife@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
I tried watching Pluribus on Prime where it was listed. It played the first episode enough to get me hooked, and told me I needed to pay to watch the rest. Straight to jellyfin we go.
kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 11 hours ago
this is something apple does, the first episode of most of their shows is free. surprised to hear they’re on amazon tbh
MotoAsh@piefed.social 8 hours ago
Pluribus was such a complete disappointment for me… I don’t know … ok well yea I do know why most people like it. Though for me, I know way too much sfience and tech, so the many parts that are not realistic stand out and fly in the face of Vince’s very realistic style of presentation. That massive juxtaposition royally fucks the whole show for me.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
this thread just reminded me i needed to go and download season 2 of mr mayor
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
There’s a season 2?! I thought it got cancelled after the first season.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
two seasons and a holiday special between 1 and 2 :)
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I recently discovered it’s super easy to run qbittorrent in a docker container with the network forced through gluetun which ensures a VPN connection without impacting the global network connection.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
You need to set yourself up with radarr and sonarr. Get into torrents or usenet. And finally pick either plex, emby, or jellyfin. The movie one didnt exactly change my world since I had to pick the stuff, but shows one was crazy! Add the show and gets all existing stuff and will download the news ones when released. Its especially great the following year when you didnt even know it was coming back and boom you already have it. Bonus points, I use android app nzb360 on local network to connect to all those apps and it shows whats new so I can easily add stuff. I can even connect to my download app so it shows everything in 1 spot.
FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Lot’s of people talking about piracy, and I’m all about it. However, I’m here to talk about Mr. Mayor. What a fantastic show. It was funny, it was heartfelt, and it had character growth. Pirate the shit out of it.
NastyNative@mander.xyz 8 hours ago
Another reason to stop paying for streaming services. This would piss me off!
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
The first hit is free
PearOfJudes@lemmy.ml 57 minutes ago
Cancel all subscriptions which are just “We own the copyright to music, tv, movies etc” and find your digital art through simple file sharing networks on the internet. FOR EXAMPLE:
Stremio + Torrentio + Real Debrid (If you don’t want to pay for real debrid it still works just can be a bit slower) A torrent streaming solution for most/all tv shows and movies. Soulseek, a file sharing platform mostly for music. I have yet to find a decent lossless streaming solution.
If you want games, Ebooks, or other kinds of media, type fmhy.net into your browser and they have a tonne of different media types and links for you to choose from. If your just starting check out there “adblocking and blocking trackers” section its a decent start for making sure you don’t get caught or anything.