Yarr harr fiddle dee dee
I’ve definitely made a return to dark waters.
Can’t say I ever left.
Hilarious that these subscription companies learned nothing from the cable industry that they’re disrupting
I swear I’ve seen every single company from Netflix to Disney to Spotify to Youtube to Apple doing the same sort of thing in like the past 3 months. This is GROSS.
I can’t wait for their suprised pikachu faces when they put so much friction into using their products that piracy starts eating into their profits. Us nerds are already fed up, and when that happens piracy alternatives grow. That makes it that much easier for the general public to also sail the high seas. I give it 3 years or so before they’re all shocked and crying to congress about the problem they created
Nah they’ll put out a bunch of news articles talking about how much money pirates are costing them. If they get enough public support or line the right pockets we might also see Congress crack down on this ‘scourge’ that’s probably totally linked to terrorism somehow and “must be dealt with swiftly.”
I’m ok with YouTube. I pay for a large music service and get no YouTube ads.
Every other service has only made things worse. Netflix has done the least by not yet pushing ads.
A lot of these streaming companies are just cable companies who needed to change their business to keep up, but don’t want to change their predatory practices
They are the same companies. Lol they are all owned by isps for the most part.
What a weird way to thank someone
It’s more like “thanks and goodbye“ and maybe a little bit of “don’t you dare show your face around these parts if you know what’s good for you” sprinkled in for good measure.
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So glad I built a PLEX server.
Have a look at Jellyfin, if you haven’t. I moved from Plex because of restrictions in HW decoding.
Do you mean hardware encoding, because that’s what’s paywalled in Plex.
I personally migrated from a Jellyfin ecosystem to a Plex with Lifetime Pass one when building my current server - while both are highly capable media servers, Plex has, by far, the better clients.
You migrated to a closed source for profit app to get away from the enshittification of streaming companies?
You don’t believe Plex will go down a similar path?
You are aware that this isn’t a lifelong commitment, right? A Plex license doesn’t make using it mandatory. In fact, had you read a bit further, you’d have seen that it’s no commitment at all, and I’m still running and maintaining a Jellyfin server simultaneously, reverse proxy and all. Not just as a fallback, but also for the things it still does better.
I migrated my household use to Plex, though, because this evil “closed source for profit app” offers an on-device user experience that is as good, if not better, than that of a commercial streaming services. This makes the rest of the household use it happily, instead of seeing it as an inferior alternative.
Jellyfin’s user experience is simply not there yet, not even close. Its clients, if available at all for the system in question, are (mostly) functional, but certainly not fun.
I had the money to spend on the evil “closed source for profit app” and it made my family’s life a little better for it - are you sure that trying to shame me for that was the right reaction?
Yup much easier to use Plex, couldn’t stand jellyfin
Been managing one since about 2014 and increasing/updating… it’s immensely refreshing never dealing with these companies’ garbage “updates.”
I’m very glad to have been using Plex/Jellyfin for years, since before HBO Max and Disney+ etc were even a thing. It really is a much better experience.
What innovation! Digital shrinkflation! Otherwise known as a scam.
Hey now, that extra bandwidth for downloading 4k content is really expensive, same goes for buying a third device to stream it on – HBO is really doing OP a favour here by saving them money
imagine if any tech company sold a service at a price that’s at least the cost to provide it, that would be outrageous
“New Features” ah yes. Actually it’s an upgrade to a new features plan. They are doing you a favor. The new plan is completely free and you even gain streams from other platforms, also free. Yarr!!!
The en-shittification saga continues. 💩
Time to pick up a DVD player and look around for some movies for sale.
Interesting customer retention move for a service that hasn’t been able to make much new content for the past six months and is about to see its new releases dry up.
“Thank you for being loyal, here’s how we are going to fuck you over”
Don’t worry, I’m sure they’ll increase the price to make up for it.
Total bullshit
Way to go to fight against piracy 🤡
Don’t forget the whole point of the rebrand was to sell off the actual HBO content and fill Max with shitty reality TV. It’s the exact same thing only they don’t send you an email about it.
Shit. I saw a few shows that were on HBO Max elsewhere (Netflix?) recently and was like ??? but yeah, that makes sense. When Westworld left, I took it as a one-off but I guess not.
