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Amazon's Prime Video will start serving ads on January 29 unless you pay extra (www.engadget.com)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Things to do today:

  1. Pay mortgage - done

  2. Pay electric bill - done

  3. Cancel Amazon - and done

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Get a VPN after canceling Amazon and download whatever you want. Mullvad is much cheaper than prime video.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

You don't even need a VPN if you live in a country that doesn't care

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sonarr + Radarr + Transmission-OpenVPN + Ombi + Plex.

For the past ~5 years or so, I’ve had the choice of a polished web UI to pirate any movie or TV show on demand. Up until the past few months, I have still paid for:

  • Netflix
  • Amazon Prime
  • Apple TV+ (as part of Apple One)
  • Disney+
  • YouTube Premium

… because their products and recommendation engines were more user-friendly for my family and I. Since the pattern of price gouging in the last 6-12 months, I now subscribe to:

  • Netflix (cancelling this imminently)
  • Apple Music (Apple One cancelled)

I hope the shameless cash grabs result in a mass exodus of users and really hurt these platforms.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I've recently reached the point where I could barely afford some of them... if they were as good as they were a year ago. Seems I'm sticking to the Seven Seas and my downloaded music library.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

How do I do that on my TV? Is that a thing? I've got whatever the cheapest "smart" TV was in Walmart maybe three or four years ago with a Roku attached.

Not terribly savvy in these matters.

Thanks

Edit: Looks like I can do it via my router. I'm away for the weekend, so I'll look into this next week. Thanks again for the idea

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Yes Mullvad does have router configuration files. It's only like $5.33/mo. Also your streaming catalog changes based on locations. Like for Netflix, Hulu and etc.