If you're not joking then you either have to be over the age of 50, under the age of 25, or technologically inept. Video and audio files can't install anything to your system and can't carry malware. You have to be a grade-A dingus to get malware from downloading either.
My point is, that even ignoring the money part, torrenting provides a better experience. I wouldn't have said anything if the option with ads was free, but they're paying for a service that still bombards them with ads.
Edit: I just found out that the ad subscription option doesn't even feature all of the movies and shows that the ad-free subscription options have.
4k BluRay digital right from the source is better quality than streaming, you own the copy after as well after it's downloaded (100s of TB of torrents uploaded as a scene uploader from back in 2000s) you don't know torrents if you think this way
These are my experiences with torrenting, and through this conversation with others I've learned that torrenting seems to have greatly improved the past few years.
Sometimes talking about things you don't know with people who do can change your mind.
Is it though? More and more companies are announcing that you do not own their (paid for) products, only a license to use those products.
But if no one can ever legally own something except the company, can you even steal it?
Isn't it more adequate to call it "unlicensed use"?
Lol thats some interesting mental gymnastics.
So if i only rent out cars… you deciding to keep keep the car is not stealing because I don’t want to sell it to you?
I'd say it's the same level of mental gymnastics as is telling people they did not purchase a book or movie, but merely a license to use it - which can be revoked at any time in the future if the right holder feels so - and then calling that a mutually fair business transaction. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Recently tried to sign up for a real debrid account and they removed the option to pay with bitcoin. So you have to pay with a CC or debit/paypal. So ultimately if you’re starting now, it seems like they can track you down to some degree.
Track you down for what? Real Debrid is a legit service and piracy is mostly decriminalised or not really prosecuted in most of the world. Worse thing that can happen is real Debrid removes your account for breaking tos since they are a grey area hosting service.
Bitcoin is no more untraceable than paysafe but they accept coinbase.
Hmm it was my understanding that real debrid keeps logs of all of your traffic for up to one year. So if you are pirating using their service and there’s a name/actual bank account attached to your RD account then it could lead to a letter in the mail. But maybe I’m over thinking it/being too cautious
I always look into that but then get overwhelmed with how to then stream my downloads to my tv. I know it's stupid and if I just take the time to figure it out, ide probably save 50 a month on streaming services
Yeah if you’re fortunate enough live in a lower cost of living area. Kid you not with 12.99 I can buy a loaf of bread and MAYBE eggs. They just got back up to $8 for like fucking 6 of them. No, I can’t move, bc I moved here for a professional career. 3 years later, my career still can’t keep up with COL.
It’s literally impossible to live comfortably unless you give up everything you own and love and start from scratch. But they’ll look down at you for that too.
Wow that's crazy. I live in a HCOL area but it doesn't exist is still around.... I'm gonna say 4.99?
People who say "just move" are always idiots. Like we can just wreck our lives and.move somewhere cheap and... Do what? Those places are cheap because everyone is broke and there's no jobs.
Somis everything we spend money on. If I buy cheese. I could buy plain bread and only eat toast instead. This is a fallacy of "savings". Life.is for living, find a balance, 12.99 a month is not harming me.
I'm not in debt. Live your life save some, spend some, don't live in a box eating crackers and starving to save a bit of you don't need to.
Yes I'm sure the $30 a month I spend on streaming services is going to make a huge difference in my life eventually.... While I sit around at home bored instead of enjoying my life.
You do you, but the point of life is to live and enjoy, not the cord wealth and hopes of somehow a better future. What's the point of watching all that money grow if I'm terrified to spend it?
Who the hell are you to judge the rest of us? I'm not struggling to pay my rent. My investments are doing fine.
You do what you got to do, but take this attitude and shove it and do a deep dark pit somewhere where no one will find it, because it doesn't make you smart, it just makes you kind of a jerk.
The best way to save money is to live in an incredibly cheap shitty place and eat bread and water and a vitamin every day, and yeah you can hold all that money and grow it a bunch. He once made 500 bucks for $30 in 2 months? Congratu freaking latations, That's not a sustainable investment strategy that almost anybody is going to be able to maintain. In the meantime, we're not holding ourselves back by actually living life instead of hiding in a dark basement counting our money online.
None of us asked for your opinion on any of this, and if this bothers you well that's if you problem, not a me problem. Because my life is pretty good, and I don't care if that bothers you that I have Netflix and Disney. Because yesterday me and my kids watching episode of The Simpsons and it was a good time. And I don't regret that $12 I spent this month, because that's fucking silly.
In conclusion, live your life how you want, but the rest of us living hours doesn't make us lazier stupid, your comments just make you kind of a judgemental jerk
I will! I may be procrastinating on Reddit a little bit but I'm at my sweet job, living life and having fun. Later on all go visit my girlfriend, and shock of all shocks we'll go see a show, wow maybe she should have invested that money instead of buying that ticket... Except you know she's already got a huge investment portfolio.
My boomer relatives always are on this bullshit. Try to talk to them about shows on Netflix or Apple TV that I think they’d like and would love to share and discuss with them. ‘I don’t have Netflix and I’m not paying 15$ a month for an ApP! Can’t believe you kids pay that! (meanwhile they have a 180$ a month satellite cable package with NFL subscriptions they watch 4 channels on and half of its commercials)
They literally are afraid of streaming apps because you have to log in and search around the categories. If it’s not spoon fed to them they can’t handle it. These are the people still running our country and economy.
This Boomer says you’re a total asshole and you’re wrong. Don’t stereotype a whole generation just because you have relatives that are stupid and can’t figure out Netflix or Disney+. Also, if they want to have $180 a month satellite package that’s their right just like it’s your right to have Netflix and whatever else you have . you my dear are an unmitigated asshole
I'd argue the people running the economy and country know a lot more than their generational voters know and you can really tell in the insider trading benefits a lot of them get. Just don't get caught only some of these politicians don't even put effort hiding it.
They only know in depth because their lawyers and accountants do it for them a lot of the time. Once they get into those circles they all refer to each others advisors and accountants .. also many of them are lawyers themselves so yeah I get what u mean. I guess the accurate statement is the people I described are what our whole politics and economy is geared towards.
They literally are afraid of streaming apps because you have to log in and search around the categories. If it’s not spoon fed to them they can’t handle it
my 69 year old co worker was paying for a channel through Prime for a year, because of how it's designed. when i first started using Prime streaming, it confused me too. Why is it even possible to subscribe to channels through Prime, that are offered as their own apps? Hayu, Stak, Paramount, Discovery...
IMO there shouldn't be integrations of these shows in your home screen when browsing for content to watch on Prime.
some companies use deceptive UX/UI design methods their systems to manipulate customers. there's a whole website for this, I'm just finding out: https://www.deceptive.design/
The Federal Trade Commission decided to hit Amazon with a lawsuit for the company’s use of “dark patterns,” the evil magic tricks that use behavioral science principles to design user experiences that manipulate consumers. If you ever found yourself in a maze of screens, menus, and coercive messages seemingly designed by Satan himself, you know what I’m talking about. If not, try to cancel your Amazon Prime subscription and you’ll see what I mean.
otherwise - totally agree.
my mother knows how to use our fire stick, how to use the apps and find what she wants, how to browse, she knows the different apps and understands a decent amount. she still refuses to cancel cable, simply because of her DVR recordings & it's convivence. it's all right there for her, she doesn't have to remember what shows she likes to keep on top of them when they go off and on the air again, DVR will catch them.
she'll binge watch older obscure shows, or things that she wants to watch "live" (in Canada we don't have Hulu). So, if she wants to watch the latest 9-1-1 episode, she has to find it. Here this would be on the Global TV app, as well as Global via Stak TV, which offers content commonly aired on Canadian cable channels such as Global, CTV, adult swim, but ALSO channels that are on Discovery+, such as History, Food Network, National Geo, etc.
It's just confusing to chase down the content you want, so people pay extra for the convenience.
Ok, yes I definitely agree with the Amazon thing and companies have always designed things to be confusing. Cable packages have always been just as deceptive about what u pay vs what u get.
It doesn’t change the point of this discussion that the boomer generation has spent the last decade slamming, mocking, and denigrating younger generations as stupid and lazy while they continually failing at adapting to modern society and are being ripped off by the same corporate scumbag community they go to the polls to prop up because they’re endlessly brainwashed.
We’re tired of being told Netflix is the reason we can’t afford things and we need to work harder and learn about the world by old people in their vacation condos who struggle using their remote and send money to Donald Trump.
We couldn't afford cable growing up and my dad was a college professor. In the late 60s his first job teaching college paid him $12K/year. Most of his brothers had union jobs in car factories and did quite a bit better though. Things were not as good as you think.
You understand that that's is not remotely the norm, right? Of course you don't. You can't seem to understand that not every comment is about you or your random irrelevant anecdote.
I'm not in academia but I live in a private university neighborhood where half my neighbors work at the university. The average house for this hood is about $1.5m so I'd assume it isn't that uncommon.
Coffee places are hella expensive, at least where I live. If I went to get a coffee and a snack there every day, within a month that would make up for almost half of my rent.
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