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    12 hours ago

    It really was nice while streaming lasted. Shame these companies continually allow greed to drive me back into the arms of piracy.

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      ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ piracy is better anyway, I want full bitrate digital copies not compressed garbage.

      Such a shame high bitrate full quality movies/TV shows will semi fade away as these asshole companies only stream their movies at 7 gigs an hour and never release physical media.

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        40GB Pirates of the Caribbean just hits differently. The black pearl coming out of an actual mist and not layers of gray that slowly recede because of compression is very awesome. FullHD with proper bitrate is enough for my 2m projector image, too.

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          100% It boggles my mind that very apparent compression artifacts don’t bother the average consumer.

          I guess if you don’t know what it is, you can’t realize it is a flaw.

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      If you stream torrented films from your computer to your TV you can get a much nicer bitrate

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      I remember when an older netflix ceo talked about never having ads on the platform, there was some high and mighty principle about it… But then money!

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      10 hours ago

      I want a digital format that i can store locally. I think i’m forced to buy blu-rays and a blu-ray drive.

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            You also need the right Bluray drive that can be re-flashed before you can extract the contents. If only it was as easy as DVDs.

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                There are guides out there to do it or you can just buy one that’s already been flashed to bypass DRM. I bought one 5 or 6 years ago to do it and quit after maybe 10 Blu-rays because it takes forever if you want to compress via handbrake and it’s much easier just to torrent directly unless it’s something obscure.

          • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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            8 hours ago

            Ah. Yes. Sorry. I missed that. I started with DVDs, since mine came with a reader. Haven’t moved to blu-ray, yet, for the same reason.

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          I grew up with ads on cable, but I think it was back in the digg days someone said cable started that way too. You paid for cable for shows. Then the ads came. Streaming is almost exactly like cable now, except with the on demand part and how it’s over IP.

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            Exactly right, it is the greediest model possible people will accept, ads+sub like cable TV and many popular streaming services became are the same garbage following the same enshittification path because art doesn’t exist in most TV and movies anymore, it’s just a commodity/product in a store.

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          19 hours ago

          I’m so tired of ads everywhere. I ad block at so many avenues. How do we crack an iPad to get rid of app ads? Is that possible?

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            If you set up a pihole, most of those in-game banner and popup ads won’t show up on iOS with the default blocklists. You won’t even be able to play ads for rewards anymore without disabling or swapping to a different network. Anything from the prime mobile store will still have ads unless you block the full Amazon domain, but those are the only ones I’ve encountered that are that persistent, and those are easy enough to avoid. Just don’t download anything from Amazon.

            As a bonus, the pihole will also block ads across the rest of your network, and you can choose to be really aggressive with what gets blocked if you want, so you don’t need the piecemeal per-device solutions.

            If you do opt to set a pihole up, make sure to port forward 53 to the pihole, so android users get the same Adblock perk (android will default to google dns via 53 to serve up ads without that port forward)

            If you then set up a home VPN through your router, you can connect back to it when you are out and about and get the same level of ad protection wherever you go.

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            18 hours ago

            It is also possible to block ads using some VPNs. But in general, if you want the freedom to modify things, you should not be using Apple products.

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              I typically don’t but I have an iPad from being in aviation and gave it to my little one. The app ForeFlight isn’t available on Android. They have a Garmin one but it just isn’t the same.

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                I use this on iOS and iPadOS. It isn’t perfect and needs tinkering and tweaking. But it does block ads systemwide in most apps (banner ads, not those pesky in game ads usually). And you can customise it by seeing what ad servers were called, and add them to the block list.

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          9 hours ago

          Buy the DVD/Blueray then download the torrent.

          You’ve paid for the media, there’s nothing wrong with having it in a format you can use.

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              There are

              Steam, Google, Amazon, and Sony all sell movies digitally (I don’t know if Amazon still does since they switched to streaming)

              But go into it knowing there’s DRM to prevent back ups and they can remove the content from your library at any time

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                Most of the stuff you see while scrolling through Amazon’s streaming service is actually just stuff you can buy but not stream. If it’s not one of their own big exclusives, the service is almost unusable

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      Devil’s Advocate here, but I wonder if that could be a choice made by the creatives or the production company - like, “we hate advertising and don’t want it shown during our show, so that’s the kind of licence we will agree to”.

      I think a lot of people would applaud that sentiment of refusing to have ads in their show.

      Unfortunately the result would be that for noble, purity of the art, reasons they end up accidentally screwing people in your situation.

      No idea if that’s plausible, but maybe?

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        Yeah, I feel like there is a lot at play even in terms of how the content is paid for. Maybe netflix only gets the ad money and not the creatives, in which case they don’t want their content on the ad version. Either way, the customer suffers.

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    What’s this skull and cross bones flag doing here??? Oh, right. It’s mine. I fly it often…

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          They changed the policy to only be against discussion of jury nullification when talking about a future crime i.e. a crime that hasn’t been committed yet. Still not acceptable.

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      19 hours ago

      Got any suggestions for another instance that doesn’t block much? (Or isn’t blocked much, I don’t know what’s happening.)

      • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        I’m at lemmy.dbzer0.com - run by an anarchist but you don’t have to be an anarchist to join, this instance is pro-piracy, and the instace where !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com is hosted. Only spam instances and lemmygrad is blocked, but hexbear isn’t blocked

        sopuli.xyz - run by a Finnish person - blocks both lemmygrad and hexbear, and spam instances

        lemmy.ca - run by Canadians? (I think?) - also blocks both lemmygrad and hexbear, and spam instances

        sh.itjust.works - this one seems like the only one that has no application the last time I checked I just checked and theres no application - also blocks lemmygrad and hexbear, and spam instances

        lemmy.sdf.org - has zero blocks, so they federate with spam instances and possibly illegal content (CSAM) from other instances

        lemm.ee - federates with all except 3: (threads.net) (lemmy.burger.rodeo) (burggit.moe)

        Edit: I actually am worried about the instances that have low or zero blocks, there are CSAM everywhere, its kinda risky to federate with all.

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          Mander.xyz has great science content and very sensible policies. But for a more general purpose instance, those above.

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    It’s a licensing issue. They don’t have the rights to show every movie or show ad supported.

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        For one you can read the article. But it’s a long standing thing. When you license a film or show for streaming, you don’t inherently get the right to show ads during it. Some studios specifically exclude the right, some charge more, some don’t care. The deals made for some of the Netflix originals don’t even allow it, so they can’t show their “own” shows with ads. The reality is often times streaming services aren’t even making their original shows, they’re just paying a bunch of money for exclusive distribution in one or more markets. So, older deals especially, Netflix didn’t negotiate for ad rights because they weren’t showing ads back then. Some production companies don’t want ads running during their prestige show.

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          they could just show those few titles without ads on the ‘ad supported’ plan. i dunno. that might make too much sense.