Not sure I’d call Suits or The Hitlist “septic waste”, but you do you!
Finally!
I hate these subscriptions everybody and their mom has, but it’s insanely expensive to buy blueray discs these days, it’s easily 30-40 euro per movie f.e.
I mean, you can just buy dvds. They are cheap af. If you know where to look you can also find bluray discs for cheap. My boyfriend and I sometimes go to websites for used dvds and blurays and they don’t cost 30 to 40 euros there.
You can also go to the library and borrow dvd and bluray movies. It’s free and you can discover some films you would have otherwise never seen. I do that a lot and my boyfriend and I enjoy this setup. It is a lot cheaper and nicer than having subscriptions to two or three shitty streaming services that are filled with trash and none of them have the movies we want to watch. Fuck that shit. Physical media all the way. It is so easy and cheap to go back to physical if you really want it. It is probably cheaper than subscribing to services where you basically pay for air and own nothing.
Literal enshittification!
While also raising their rates, of course.
Hey, that sludge pipe wasn’t cheap!
Yep, cancelled my subscription the day they announced the two-tier plans.
I can’t remember if it was The Goodies or Monty Python that did this exact skit in the 1970s. :)
I don’t know the Goodies or Python one, but Stewart Lee did it in Comedy Vehicle as well, I think in Series 1?
Maybe that was the one I was thinking of.
Man, that’s one of the best series ever. The ‘audiences like you killed Robin Williams’ bit, I think in series 4, is one of the most amazing 30 minutes of standup ever.
Oh shit! I don’t think I ever watched series 4! Off to rectify that!
The stuff Netflix puts out, particularly the documentaries are far better quality than just about anything I’ve seen on cable or tv. I know people like to shit on Netflix but they have better content than most
They put out a lot of uninspired trash and axe the good shows early, but they do have a couple of truly great shows.
For quality originals though, Apple TV+. Highest ratio of good to bad content I’ve seen. Much smaller volume though.
Tbf im not familiar with the Apple+ library since it was that one streaming service too many for me, so I never got it. Netflix is great for true crime documentaries i think
I’m watching Poop Cruise
I’m hooked on all the true crime ones. Sins of our mother was crazy.
Netflix subscribers: “I just like to watch shows.”
Gosh, if only there were another service, or another way to do that. Shucks.
Doesn’t your library let you borrow DVDs? Seems outdated but I very recently binged three seasons of Succession thanks to my local library!
In my country the library barely exists lmao… sad life.
Streaming services are crap. For new years I wanted to give myself streaming for a month and nothing looked good. I didn’t get anything.
That fucking alphabet grid where you try to type search terms with the four arrow keys is what always sends me back to reading books. Like, just doing that with a keyboard-type layout would be way better or even T9 - or maybe they could recycle old used Blackberrys for the purpose.
I saved up a bunch of shows and waited all year to binge in one month over the summer and cancel.
may I recommend…
✨piracy✨?
I love your recommendation. Unfortunately I am very out of the loop with that sort of thing these days. And I’m without resources if I accidentally break something. I need my desktop for work as well. I’d be happy to read up on the topic if you could suggest some reputable sources that someone without a tech background could break down. It’s why I save it all up until summer. So I pay them as little as possible.
I have all the skill and info needed to pirate anything I want safely and easily. I still use your method.
#1 stats are recorded and they can see what those of us who only buy one month a year watch. #2 it’s easy and $18 a year isn’t a bad price for the shows and movies I am interesting IMO. #3 there is a certain joy in binging and cancelling after one month that pirating cannot provide.
PS: I kinda like checking in on the Netflix interface once a year just to see what people are dealing with.
I beleive this is where dbzer0 would come in… So basically, you are going to want a VPN first, which they are pretty easy to get and use and there are plenty of resources online, I would suggest going for a trusted one such as Proton VPN or Nord VPN. Then as for how to actually get movies/shows, you are going to want to install firefox (if you don’t have it) and then add the ‘ublock’ extention to block popups and other nasty things. Then once you have that, you can check out the sites in our megathread, they are safe and trusted: https://rentry.co/megathread-movies-and-tv . Let me know if you need more help. :)
Edit:
firfox - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
Ublock - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/I too am out of the loop but why not use tor? The VPN companies can still trace it back to you if what you did turned out to be illegal.
I’m not an expert by any means here, but my impression is that it at some point comes down to a tradeoff between security/anonymity and having a fast enough connection. TOR slows you down much more than an ordinary VPN is what I’ve heard.
Because streaming over tor is 1) painfully slow and 2) a dick move for the whole network that is very important to others.
VPN don’t give a crap about people pirating, and governments probably don’t as much as people think (I guess that depends heavily on your country), but if you really want to be safe, go for one of the logless vpn, like mullvad or ivpn.
That’s fair piracy probably is safer than most people have you believe.
I still wouldn’t go for any VPN that clearly logs stuff that can be traced back to me, that would defeat most of the purpose (unless it’s one for accessing machines in my home network).
Also if you’re downloading it first I don’t really see the relevance of speed, just do it the day before.
That’s why I suggested trusted vpn companies. Proton keeps no logs, so they couldn’t hand it over if even they wanted to. I also suggested VPN as opposed to TOR because TOR can be fiddly*, and complicated because of that to a non-techy person (which is what this person had said they were). The speeds of TOR are also not good for streaming.
fidely
I don’t want to be that guy but I suspect you mean “fiddly,” whose spelling derives from “fiddle.”
I only mention it because it took me a bit to figure out what you were saying.
Thx, fixed that now!
sub for a month with a prepaid gift card (so no potential issues cancelling). binge for a week, run out of stuff to watch, the rest of the sub goes unused and wasted. been down that road once every year or two here.
So what you’re saying is, Happy Gilmore 2 will not save streaming?
Yar-har, fiddle-dee-dee!
I didn’t watch the sewage pipe much but I kept up my subscription for the next seasons of Corn and Asparagus, but when they raised the price I had to finally cancel.
I thought that was an Amazon bag sitting in the doorway due to the logo/handle similarity.
Mhh, multiple flavors of septic waste
How does one pronounce “Mhh”?
Like a long “M”, but kinda “breathy” in the “h”. If they pronounce it like me.
I seem to be in a minority in thinking I get good value for money from Netflix.
I cancelled after I realized I watched 2, maybe 3 shows a year on it. Had it since the pre-streaming days.
Are you living in 2015? Nah, I’m kidding, if it gives you enough, then fine. I just canceled right after the pandemic.
It isn’t a bad value if you watch it regularly.
They do cycle in good movies, but they aren’t always up front and noticeable. Every service has a massive amount of trash and crappy interfaces for discovering stuff.
Someone told me they’re funding Sesame Street, is this not true?
My wife is in your boat. I’ve tried to convince her many times to cancel but she refuses.
Netflix isn’t terrible. The Titan sub doc was good. Black Mirror, Love/Death/Robots. They have some good shows
If you like their content. For me, it’s like one in 50 items are worth watching, if that. Sorting through the duds costs time and ain’t nobody got time fo dat as far as I am concerned.
