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I tried my brother's disney plus... (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It made me so thankful for piracy. What an abysmal experience. First of all, I’m on mobile and they make you use the app. There is literally no way to get around it except TOR, no using browser, even on desktop mode, as somone like me who is deaf, it means I can’t have my special accessibility extensions which sucks.

So I get to the app ready to watch my show. Bam Adds! Worse than youtube! It’s like an add every 5-10min that lasts from 5-40s. Who the hell can actually enjoy a movie or a TV show in these conditions?

I was like fine, I’ll download it to watch offline then. Nope, that’s blocked now. So I figured I’d tinker with DNS and see if I could manage to block those adds. That didn’t work.

I’m so glad piracy exists. I see streming services have gone full circle. No better than paying an absurd amount for a TV channel plastered with adds. Urgh. I’ll make sure to stay away from disney restaurants now so they can’t legally kill me since I watched an episode of futurama on their platform.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Disney+ has ads? I'm in Germany and I don't see any. Where are you?

edit: removed comment about browser, as OP meant on the phone

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Switzerland. But I think you can get add free plan for double the money.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why even bother? It's legal to pirate movies and tv shows for personal use in Switzerland!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

A lot of people have no idea how to. I've been pirating movies for like 20 years now, and while it's not that hard for me, i once tried to find a movie in german for my nephew and i completely gave up. Everything that is English i can watch in a minute.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh, they do have an plan with ads. You can't really complain about ads if that is what you subscribed to, I guess. The price difference is €6 vs €9/month in Germany, btw.

The no browser support on phones kind of sucks though.

[+] the_post_of_tom_joad 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's a trade off. "Free services" typically require more leg work and can come with legal or security risks. I used to have a great XBMC & torrenting setup years ago. I spent significant time customizing it and various plugins, extending scripts etc. I had fun, and took necessary precautions. Millions wouldn't. Some are happy to pay €9/month to another evil corp for convenience (where it works for them).

[+] the_post_of_tom_joad 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

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

agree with that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I agree that there are many great free streaming sites out there, with 1080p and good quality.

But quality is still an advantage of paid services (or acquirung the larger files in other ways). Streaming with higher bitrate costs way more bandwidth (= money) while being marginally better.

It's noticeable though, if you have a good, large enough display. Especially darker scenes suffer from low bitrate. On my phone I don't notice it at all.

That's even true for high bitrate. E.g. I've even compared a Reacher WEB-DL to BluRay remux, and the latter was noticeably better — not that it's worth the additional storage usage.