jellyfin doesn’t. and your shows never go to another streamer. oh and you can watch them when the internet goes out. oh and they don’t track your watching habits.
why are you watching
paramountnetflixhulupeacock again?Isn’t Jellyfin something you have to run on your own server? It’s not comparable to normal streaming services in any shape or form.
It is comparable because they fill the same service.
It just needs more configuration on your end. Unless you can join a friend who has setup their own.
You can rent Plex access, need to find the sites, usually a discord server. So like $10/15 per month for thousands of good movies and shows.
That’s the point…
It’s very comparable to “normal streaming services”, just better in every way imaginable, provided you set up the backend with supporting services
I kinda wish we could federate jellyfin instances. Just manually, with friends I trust. Would instantly expand everyone’s catalogue.
So it’s like a party where you’re responsible for building the venue, providing the entertainment, the refreshments, and the party itself.
Yeah super comparable.
(Just to clarify I’m not defending shitty streaming services and I sail the seas myself, just can’t stand people with their “iTs JuSt ThAt EaSy” attitudes when it comes to certain things or trying to convince people that don’t have the kind of expertise or resources to do the thing they’re pushing)
These days you can just ask an LLM to help you step by step. Instead of 10 minutes, it may take a couple of hours to get automated free media forever
ok. you sound fun.
also it’s pretty fuken easy.
I noticed this on a relative’s YouTubeTV, that when I paused to read the screen, it threw garbage up on the screen over the text. “Mildly infuriating” is right!
Isn’t it funny, when you visit a relative or friend and see their TV and web browser experience is full of ads and shit, while at home you see no ads and sometimes forget they even exist? I’ve noticed this many times.
Yep. Except in podcasts. They can’t be avoided there in any other way than hammering the forward button. F-ing nuisance.
if on youtube and popular enough sponsorblock should cover it
I’ve found that DNS-level blocklists usually take care of the ads that are added into podcasts on download.
Now if only we could have something akin to Sponsorblock for podcasts.
Good list but https://jellyfin.org/
I wanted to use jellyfin, but it’s not quite there yet.
That said emby’s live streaming of FAST streams is so bad that I keep a channels subscription active just to use as a buffer.
In my experience, Jellyfin is far superior to Emby and Plex.
And with Seerr it’s better than all the streaming services combined
Pirate everything
I’ll take “How did this television get a bullet hole in it?” for 300
Arrrrrr
/uninstall & cancel
I’ve never once had a commercial on Jellyfin.
I put some classics on mine like the one with ‘what are you sinking about?’
My wife wanted to watch Obession this weekend, which is streaming on Peacock. That was the first time I’ve watched anything on there in at least a year. What a garbage ass service. Like 3 minutes of ads before the movie starts. Then ads on the pause screen.
Ad-shittification
Unrealistic, you can see the show in the center.
It was pretty optimistic, as far as dystopian fiction goes.
Note to self: Hi self, you’re awesome! Thanks for not spending all my money on streaming services that treat you like shit, and keep raising prices. I shall continue to not buying peacock…or hulu…or netflix.
“No commercials version, $3 extra…may contain commercials.”
Fuck the core concept of that.
I was on an airplane the other day, the ticket advertised free wifi, but in reality you have to watch ads to unlock minutes.
Edit: should also add the whole time we were delayed it showed ads that can’t be turned off, then when you take off it has a 4 minute unskippable (and undimmable) ad, then they put ads on the little airplane progress screen.
Worst flying experience of my life.
Which airline was this?
yeah I need to know who’s doing this fuckery so I can avoid it
If this had been posted 2 months ago, I’d say “hopefully it’s Spirit or Frontier”. Because I avoid those airlines anyways.
But seeing as it’s being posted now, I’d say we can rule our Spirit.
Hopefully it was Frontier. Because I refuse to fly that airline at all. Though, I think we can rule them out too. They’re too cheap for screens in the seats.
It’s real cool flying with a toddler that I’m desperately trying to keep away from screens only to have them be forcibly mesmerized by bullshit on screens that can’t be shut off.
Tell us what airline so we know which to avoid.
That sounds fucking atrocious. Flying can already be stressful, and I usually just try to relax and chill for the whole flight. It’s one thing if a nearby passenger is being annoying. It can make a five hour flight seem like an eternity. Even worse for longer flights.
But to be forced by the airline to watch ads on the screen? Fuck that. I always turn my screen off. I don’t want that in my face.
Icelandair
Damn, I flew with them once well over a decade ago. I had a good impression of them at the time, but I guess that was before capitalism reached its “late-stage”.
That sucks, man…
You know what doesn’t have ads, ever? Pirated movies and shows.
Why pay insane extortion fees for a deliberately worse experience? It’s like paying somebody to slap you in the face instead of enjoying a free, uninterrupted walk in the park.
As long as these satanic corporations continue to be focused on making their services as unusable and expensive as remotely possible - there’s literally no reason to pay for them, other than donating to a pedophile cult.
And there are plenty of ways to get a Netflix like UI for your pirated content.
Plex sucks omega ass
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We went full piracy in like 2002, stayed that way until about 2017, and now in 2026 have reverted to full piracy again. Time to remind them what killed cable.
Streaming killed cable though? Streaming was so good and reasonably priced I had no good reason to pirate. Now the streaming services are more jam packed with ads and as expensive as cable was, so it’s back to the high seas for me matey.
Ads killed cable. I still remember having cable briefly in the 80s, we recorded everything on our VCR (anything good) and the best part was those tapes had no commercials.
Granted the cable only had 99 channels max as the two digit red display only had two numbers, but it was glorious.
Ads suck hard, but avoiding them was just one of the plethora of advantages of early streaming. Early Netflix had what felt like infinite content, on demand, for a fraction of the price of cable. That’s why the majority of cord cutters ditched cable; price. Avoiding ads was definitely a factor but it was hardly the main one for most of us.
The modern streaming industry has embraced ads in a way that feels somehow grimier than cable because the ads are targeted and we all know it’s greed that’s put them there.
My conspiracy theory is that Netflix existed as it did for so long to try and kill piracy so they could spring the current corpo hellscape on us; they just pulled the trigger to early.
My dad swore off piracy as soon as netflix was good enough because the price was so low and EVERYTHING was on there (and it was legal). By the time he wanted to get back into it, TPB and his other go-tos were dead, so he still just pays the subscription.
Ive tried to educate him but hes still stuck in corpo hell
What you mean TPB dead? It’s totally still viable.
I’m literally downloading something on it now. 😅
Well, it was converted to an FBI front last time I checked, haven’t bothered to re-check in the last 6 or so years.
FBI seized the domain at one point, true, but right now it still gives you access to pretty much anything you want. Magnet links ftw.
I understand how magnets work, but why would you knowingly use a seized site vs any of the clones
Because it doesn’t matter. Which clones do you speak of, anyway?
Its the only torrent site I use even to this day.
When The Pirate Bay launched in 2003, I went full piracy then and never looked back.
From an outsider’s perspective, it’s like watching a wild roller-coaster ride from the sidelines. Never understood all the Netflix hype when they first launched their streaming service. Tried it once in the early 2010s and was beyond disappointed; the vast majority of of content I wanted to watch was not on there (and still isn’t).
These days I use Stremio paired with Torrentio and a Debrid service. Instant streams to anything I could ever want to watch, and it’s all there in one place. IDK why people would pay for multiple streaming services when you can just have one.
Woah, woah, woah. Easy there. I don’t think the Satanists want to be associated with these corporations.
And they just raised their subscription price. 😆
