Ars TechnicaSubscribers are paying more for streaming content that they are enjoying less
Surveys show decline in customer satisfaction with what available to stream.
jordan@arstechnica Daily reminder that the library is free. π
mikeTesteLinux@wagesj45 @arstechnica Don't give them the idea of subscription π
dannyj991
π¨π¦ TRH π¨π¦@arstechnica More services, more money, less content, more piracy...
Raj π¬π§πͺπΊπ»π₯(π»πΊπ¦;π΅πΈ)@arstechnica I refused to pay more, especially in light of advertising insertions on top of subs, and ditched my subs. I'm not missing anything.
Maier Amsden@arstechnica Still better than paying a shitload of money to watch so many fucking ads! [And fuck you Amazon Prime! Enshittification is real.]
Owen π¦πΊ@MaierAmsden @arstechnica Except now many are charging higher prices while also making you watch the ads and tracking/selling your personal data. π€ͺ
@vanitalo @arstechnica For me it's just Amazon Prime (cancelled after the year ends). The rest have slowly inched up their prices but kept the ads out.
Reply Guy@arstechnica Drink up me 'earties, yo ho!
Bradcopter@Replyguy @arstechnica don't be forgettin the VPN when ye go ta parley, matey
@Bradcopter @arstechnica i2p me matey, sure itβs slower but self hosting the *arr I never noticed, the media just shows up.
@Replyguy @arstechnica huh, I'd never even heard of this before but now you've given me a whole pile of reading material and at least a project or three.
@Bradcopter #qbittorrent has experimental #i2p integration, if your setting up a stack. I recommend #dockge for breezy af container management and #gluetun for making sure all the traffic stays on i2p. Trash guides is a good place to start, itβs pretty comprehensive, if uh dryly written. You can get pretty granular control over the media that gets downloaded. I use mine with #Jellyfin as the frontend, you can even set it up jellyseerr to automate requests. Like having your own streaming service, you can run the whole thing on a pretty low end pc, mine is an old chrome box that I got on eBay for $20. For simplifying remote access and security, I run everything on Nebula mesh overlay.
Darkoneko@arstechnica π΄ββ οΈ
quangobaud@arstechnica
One of the national free broadcasters in the UK , Channel4, is asking for Β£5β’99 a month for their streaming services to go "ad free".
Don't think it will last long like that; soon there'd be "Premium ad free" and then "Diamond No Really It is Ad Free This Time Except for These Targeted Adverts".
Samuel HautamΓ€ki@arstechnica Fun when streaming companies are basically by definition, anti-competitive. Consumers are NOT free to choose what has the better service, if they want to watch something, they have to pay for a specific streaming service.
Exclusivity in streaming servers are by definition anti-competitive, and it's crazy there is no lawsuit about this.
@arstechnica The continued enshittification of everything driven by unchecked capitalistic greed. Is anyone surprised by this? Until the people take back their power nothing will change.
Chahar (/Κa'har/) 
@arstechnica Arrrr! π¦π΄ββ οΈ