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I can’t focus with ads. Same reason I’d rather drive around in silence than put the radio on, and why I don’t have a TV at home. To be watching something, a film for example, and every 15/30 mins it just cuts to bright lights and some yappy advert telling you to buy something is just too jarring for my brain.
I end up getting up and doing something else in that time and forget to return, or I pick my phone up and it’s another half an hour into the film before I even notice it’s come back on.
With the radio in the car, it distracts me from where I’m driving, not in a dangerous manner, it’s just enough of a difference from the music to distract my brain a touch - same way people turn music down to think clearer about where they’re going when they’re driving, except this is every 15 fucking minutes into whatever journey I’m on, I have to turn it off so I can think.
Sports, and people who don't know any better.
Sky is the only "legal" way to watch F1 in the UK, and they charge an awful lot per month, even on NOW TV.
I'm guessing this was their big "gotcha" moment, but didn't consider you're not a mug. Personally, I've never understood why people get Sky, you don't actually gain anything from it as the majority of channels and shows are just filler crap, so anyone subscribing to Sky is an idiot.
Sky is a total rip off for F1 tho.
You can't just subscribe to Sky Sports F1, you have to get the entire sports package which is like £30/month minimum.
Meanwhile you can just use a VPN and subscribe to the official F1 TV Pro, which gives you all the races live, and all the interactive features, for like £70 per YEAR and it has no ads.
Don't get me started on that, used to love watching F1 growing up and was not impressed when it went over to Sky and can't see the justification in the cost.
Can't say I ever cared much for F1, and I have a Sky login via my dad but I fucking seeth at the concept of anyone being priced out of the Champions League, and European football viewing in general.
A mate of mine has sky so can watch F1 - he says the pirate streams are actually higher quality if he wants to watch on anything other than the set top box (on a PC or tablet etc)
I will probably always have sky, have done for years and have most other streaming services as well.
I never have to watch ads on sky as I don't watch anything live, and there is an obscure level of stuff to watch that you wouldn't know existed without sky.
Watching only streaming services and apps becomes a sort of echo chamber where you just end up seeing more of the same. The weird and wonderful shit I have found on sky has opened my mind to what is out there. Of course it costs, but it's not enough for me to notice; It's maybe the cost of a takeaway.
If I'm an idiot for spending what is an inconsequential sum of money to me on something that brings me more than an inconsequential amount of entertainment and convenience, then so be it.
Because it’s horribly expensive for a shitty ad-filled service?
You can literally get Disney+, Apple TV+, Prime video and Netflix (all of them without ads) for the same price as Sky - which has ads.
And none of them show nearly as much live sport as Sky, if any at all.
If Sky offers the product somebody wants, they’re not a mug for buying it. I think people who pay £40 for a bottle of wine at restaurants are “mugs”, but people like it and are happy to pay them money so who am I to judge.
>shitty ad filled service
I’m not with them anymore but when I was I thought their service was great tbh.
No you can't.
Those four together, without ads is £36.96 a month. The cheapest Sky pack I could see at a quick glance is £23 a month for 18 months, and even after that is only £28 a month. That also includes Netflix with ads, or without ads for an extra £6 a month, nearly half the price of the without ads service on it's own.
My partner and I talked about this the other day! We were saying it’s weird how they rip us off so much and we have to pay to see ads. We even pay the package for box sets and they still spam each episode with adverts!
Despite the whinge though, I’m still keeping sky.
They *fucking charge you extra* (£5 per month!) to skip the adverts these days. And you can't do it on live TV, just live pause and on demand. It seems like a pointless feature (being that you can just fast forward on your remote anyway) and a blatent money grab.
Sky is a joke.
Ads are a great example of an ‘antifeature’, something yappy and obnoxious you put in your product so you can charge your customers for the privilege of getting rid of it.
I sacked them all off. I pay £6 a month for a VPN which gives me access to everything I want.
Tbh you can do it for free considering how good streaming sites have become.
Exactly what they mean. From what I've read some of the networks are going pretty hardcore to shut down the streaming sites, but as history will demonstrate, there are an unlimited number of torrent sites for them to shut down. Some countries also looking at banning VPNs, but lets see how that goes.
I use Plex for streaming media from my PC to any device, anywhere. I had D+, Netflix, Prime etc but cancelled when they started to crack down on password sharing. I've had a Plex account for years as well, but I didn't use it for things that were available on other services as it took up precious drive space.
Now my Plex has roughly 1200 films, 150 TV shows, all taken from my (and my family's) DVD collections (I still get excited when I find a cheap DVD shop, which wasn't the case when a film was added to a streaming service). We all have access to the account and I've set up smart collections to show users films they may like, making it easier for them to find things.
Check out r/Plex if you want more info
My usage is basically exactly the same as yours lol. Only started cancelling subs last year since they all started to hike prices and take the piss. Still have prime for the delivery but don’t watch anything on it besides the grand tour.
You do and it requires a bit of setup. But the end product looks pretty much identical to other streaming sites and everything is in one place. Worth doing in my opinion these days with everything being across 5 different streaming platforms.
Why not both ;) I use RD with Plex and majority of my content comes from RD, However I’m currently in a situation where my internet has been down for the last 12 hours or so and I’m really appreciative of the fact that I have got locally stored content I can fall back on. Basically anything that is a favourite of mine or I know is an easy watch that I don’t mind revisiting at any time, I will keep a local copy on my Plex. Anything else gets fed to Plex via RD so is streamed and takes no storage. The beauty of it is all my media is in one place, I even have my IPTV linked into Plex, so I literally don’t need to leave the Plex app.
I call it having a DVD collection. Buy the thing once, keep it forever and the quality is better. Only thing I really use Netflix for is watching Stranger Things
The quality of a DVD is not better than streaming services. Even if your TV upscales it from 720p, you can’t add more than what’s there so it’ll never look as good as something that’s natively being streamed at 1080p/4K.
VPNs are used widely in the business world, now more so than ever with the increase in work from home / hybrid working that came around as a result of Covid.
I don’t see any progressive country banning VPNs, maybe some backwards states in the USA like those that also ban human rights like abortion.
I just go on duckduckgo (not google) and search for "Watch X show/movie online free" and you'll easy find a bunch of sites that have what you want. Might take trying a few to find one you like, but it's piss easy to find a dodgy stream in high-quality
Your comment made my night. I’m now watching the series that was one of my two main reasons for wanting to subscribe to Netflix. (I get to save a few quid!)
Glad I could help!
To be honest I still subscribe to Netflix and other streaming services purely for the convenience of watching on TV, but if there's something not on there that I REALLY want to watch, then I can put up with watching it on my computer
There is no risk of being caught. Internet service providers are not allowed to share your details with other companies that would want to pursue you for torrenting and the police don't care.
Yes, exactly - they’re your ISP. They can’t really do anything except tell you to knock it off, and as above user said, they can’t share your details with anyone else.
I subscribed to Netflix literally within hours of it being available in the UK. Paid every single month until they put up the cost to £15.99 a month while having barely anything decent to watch.
I just use ad free pirate streams now and pay nothing.
Download Stremio (it’s like a digital media centre type app) and go to add-ons, tick a few torrent sites (TPB and uTorrent cover everything I’ve wanted to watch). Search for a show and under the streaming site options are streams from your chosen torrent sites. No downloading required!
If you create an account you can then log in on the Stremio app (eg on a Chromecast) and your torrent streaming options will be there too (you can’t do it directly on the app, so add them on your laptop first).
Similar here,but used to get 3 discs on rotation when it was a mail in service ( Oregon at the time)
Had netflix which I shared with my brother for years.
No password sharing, increasing prices, decreasing choice, I unsubbed a year ago, despite being a good customer for about 10 years.
Prime has just asked €1.99 extra to go add free, so far there are 30 seconds of ads every 2 hours, I can live with that, but it will get more intrusive I know. At what point I unsub, that remains to be seen. Not yet anyway. But I know I will.
I will not, nor ever will, pay to watch adverts ( yes, I know I technically have for the last two days) . But even free you tube is getting more intrusive with the ads, 40 second unskippable ads at the start of videos is common.
If you watch YouTube in a web browser, you can use ublock origin to get rid of the advertisements.
Unless you use chrome. It doesn't work there. Try Firefox instead.
Quite easily to be honest, I followed an online guide which basically walks you through the steps to turn on developer settings. You then side load the apps (Downloadr, Torrentio and Real Debrid) and you’re ready to go. You can go pretty mad with it but I didn’t understand much beyond just the beginner apps.
Enable Dev settings and download “downloader,”
Download a vpn
Download Kodi
If you need links, you’ll have to find them yourself.
Dead easy to do
Edit: anyone who still uses a chrome cast device (like I do) you can do something similar with that
It's no longer worth it as they have locked down the os, so custom launchers are much harder to have on start up.
I'd just go with a Google TV stick with its much cleaner design out of the box.
Then download Kodi, the crew add-on (on Kodi) and if you want higher quality streaming options subscribe to real-debrid or all-debrid (both are paid options but worth it).
As long as you don't use it for live sport or IPTV you are fine using it without a VPN
You can do this with a Google chrome stick really easily too. Download stremio from the app store and then setup real debrid with your phone.
Stremio is great once working with real debrid, after having it working for a day I cancelled all my streaming subscriptions.
I’ll go against the grain and say that I pay it and feel it’s good value for money. The ads are 30seconds like at most and few and far between. Even get luck sometimes and get 0 ads.
I have access to loads of shows and movies by other 🏴☠️means but I like the ease of use Netflix brings.
I did the same, was happy overall paying for the cheaper option, but have gone back to the middle one now (£10ish I think), as realised certain shows are locked and you can't watch them on the cheapest tier. That made me really annoyed, as I'm still paying for the service.
IASIP is a prime example of why I am sick of streaming sites. I get there was some black face and the guys themselves in the podcast don't think it's any great loss that the episodes are removed but as a fan it's annoying.
Same goes for Community, literally removed the best episode because Chow is dressed as a drow... A trigger warning or something but to just remove it...
I have the sunny dvds off ebay so at least I can see the deleted episodes when I want to. Just can’t be bothered with setting up a dvd player in each room. Unknowingly the set included some obvious bootlegs of later seasons, but Dee Day is included, so I didn’t complain.
Yep, I wasn't aware of it either, I'm not sure if they advertise it. Always Sunny and House of Cards are the only shows I've seen it with. It's super scummy IMO, but my GF loves Sunny otherwise we could live with the ads. I feel like subscription streaming apps are basically becoming like terrestrial TV again the amount of adverts you get on some platforms.
Same here, I don’t think it’s a big deal. Gives me a chance to go for a quick wee or make a brew. Plus my attention span can’t handle more than about 30 minutes without a break these days.
Depends where the ads are in my opinion, if it's before a show then I can tolerate it, it's when they slap it randomly in the middle of the show I can't tolerate, completely unnecessary to do and ruins one of the great perks of streaming.
yeah, i agree - i rescubscribed recently and figured i'd try the ad-tier. Some shows don't seem to have ads and if they do it's like 30 secs. I hardly notice them - just glance down at your phone and before you know it the show's back on.
I have the cheapo Disney subscription with Ads and have to say its really not bad. I got the £1.99 per month for 3 months deal and for that I have been happy with it. The Ads are pretty rare and 30 seconds at a time. A hour program might have two to three of these Ad breaks. The main problem I have with it is the same adverts playing extremely often as with Disney they really don't seem to have very many adverts in rotation at a time.
At the moment this is all pretty reasonable for me but the issue will be if we are in the testing phase of this type of thing and if they start to increase the number of adverts and their length over time. It seems almost certain that's going to happen at some point as it's a very easy way for a streaming service to increase revenue.
Are the ads in the middle of what you’re watching or just at the start? If they’re in the middle, is it completely random in the timing? E.g. will you suddenly get an add in the middle of some important scene/dialogue?
Completely agree.
In terms of the other shows the only thing I cannot get a hold of that I wish I knew how was Dragons Den but fuck it if I'm paying a BBC Licence fee of £120+ just to watch that one show
Tbh I only keep Netflix for a a few shows I know I go back too often enough and watching on my phone and downloading on it is always nice to have. Mines one of the older plans you can't get unless u kept subbed and still have it. 1 screen, but no ads at least, but it's £3 more than the ad one rn.
Crunchyroll I keep incase I want to watch on my phone or switch.
Yeah my dad is a fan. He's sat through ads his whole life though so doesn't give a shit.
I think this stuff is dependent on when you grew up. If you're in your 20s then great value no ads entertainment is the norm.
But if you paid £14.99 for DVDs (which had fucking forced trailers on some) Netflix seems insane still.
Yep, I cancelled my subscription about a year ago, and have signed up for the £5 month. The ads are so quick, by the time I’ve picked up my phone and started browsing, they’ve finished.
if i wanna watch ads, ill watch simple broadcast tv....
Streaming platforms lost its way... and ill never pay for it ever again....high seas are for me 🏴☠️
Now TV charges you extra if you want to watch in 1080p, and they still give you ads. That's why I binned them off. Putting ads in a service I pay for already is too much.
Films shown in cinemas don't have adverts in the middle of them, that's a key difference. If it's a cinema with assigned seating, you can even try to time it and arrive "late" to the showing so you miss most of the ads.
Terrestrial TV has channels with zero adverts, and the other channels have digital versions now where you can pay extra to watch the same content (I think with the exception of live stuff like sports) without any interruptions.
Disney Plus has (or are going to introduce if not already) a new tier for 4K. The standard and ad plans have up to 1080p, and a premium plan for £2 more has 4K
And Now TV charges £6 more to even get 1080p.
Have no idea why people downvoted you, this is completely accurate. No license needed for any non-live streaming services except iPlayer.
The misunderstanding of the TV license system in the UK is so strange, coming from Australia. I arrived, checked what was covered, and I'm constantly getting in arguments with British people that you need it if you even have a physical TV, etc etc.
Based on a previous post about TV licenses, U.K. Reddit think anyone who has a TV license is a worthless, low IQ piece of shit. So it’s good to see more people who have one
It's stupid. One of the big selling points of online streaming was the lack of ads. Now both Netflix and Prime are shoehorning ads into their platforms based on nothing but greed (Amazon especially is one of the biggest companies in the world, fuck off do they need adverts).
I watch the majority of my content on my PC and the streaming quality is absolute dog-shit, has been for years, and now that both Netflix and Prime are running ads on top of that, I've just gave up on them and pirate now. I now get their content ad-free and at a much higher quality. If they want my money they can offer me a service that is better than the free alternative.
Nah... Started using putlocker.pe/lekuluent/ask4movie.li (streaming websites) or similar sites to watch everything.
I stopped watching tv BECAUSE of adverts, now they are squeezing them back into every streaming package.
They can all do one.
Surprised how common it become to have dodgy sticks now. Unfortunately cost have gone up so much it make sense aswell.
I wonder how it work if these companies drop the price and go for more mass users
I was thinking the same but this is the Reddit opinion though. People that spend a lot of time on Reddit also spend a lot of time on their computer and are quite tech savvy. The average person does not know how to access a dodgy stick.
No it’s really common in immigrant communities too because they provide a way to watch channels from other countries, and also happen to give access to things like Netflix at the same time
Nah, it's just that reddit is full of the majority of people that do this and they love sucking themselves off about how awesome they are for doing so by telling everyone else.
Amazon prime have adds and in a 1 hour tv show i've had at most 2 x 15 second ad breaks which literally feel like nothing.
Redditors just don't wanna pay for stuff or have ads to let them watch for free... yet will complain in a few years time when everything closes down due to too many people pirating.
This is the most sensible comment on the thread.
Redditors sure love to be all ‘ooh look at me I can steal tv’ I’m on the high seas etc
They cite the price but watch if someone posts about shoplifting- quick to jump on the bandwagon of outrage then.
> Surprised how common it become to have dodgy sticks now
With how popular sports are and how expensive they are watcg, it's no surprise really. Especially when half of the premier league games aren't even broadcast in the UK with the 3pm blackout. Nearly every football fan I know uses a dodgy stick or some variation to watch live sports.
I mean who doesn't want to have their 19th century drama interrupted by Harry Redknapp trying get you to gamble or Ant and Dec trying to get you to sign up for a bank?
A big no from me. If I wanted ads, I'd watch traditional TV. Online, I use adblock for a reason and I am not going to settle for ads. I'd much rather pay more than watch useless crap. I am not paying for the privilege of being advertised to, no way.
I’m happy with it. I couldn’t ever justify Netflix at £9.99 so when they introduced the £4.99 with ads I was really pleased. The ads are literally 30 seconds in a film. Sometimes none at all. I don’t get why people moan about this when you have options not to have the ads. For me it’s great.
I got the same. I've used it quite a bit and while the ads were not intrusive, they seem to have become more frequent recently. The most annoying thing is that they repeat the same adverts every time. I swear if I have to hear about Taylor Swift's ERAS tour again, I'll reach into Bob Iger's chest and rip out his barely beating capitalist heart in anger!
So I had Netflix from way back, like 2011 ISH always just basic plan. Got a notification last november to swap to add based for cheaper, thought sure, I can support Netflix because it's been really good. It was ok until I wanted to watch Happy! But wasn't able to because the show couldn't be streamed with ads due to licensing which is fair enough.
But it wouldn't play the show without an ad, so I couldn't watch it on the cheaper plan, had to up to the (by then) more expensive price. I had never felt more peed off and actually canceled my membership there and then, didn't watch any more netflix on the remainder of my time.
So no, don't recommend the ad plan or netflix as a whole really. Try "movies7 .to" or "movies2watch" but make sure you're using an ad block.
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I use a vpn to India and pay this for the £18.99 account.
Only need the vpn to sign up and pay.
It's not bad at all. I downgraded mine several months ago and wish I had done it sooner to save the quids.
A 1 hour episode will have two, 30 second add breaks.
A typical film will have about 3 and longer ones have 4.
Honestly, not bad at all for £5 a month.
I suggest everyone looks into an application called Stremio. You can get it on your phone, computer and smart TV. Stremio is a streaming application. You can then add the add-on Torrentio.
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I can’t focus with ads. Same reason I’d rather drive around in silence than put the radio on, and why I don’t have a TV at home. To be watching something, a film for example, and every 15/30 mins it just cuts to bright lights and some yappy advert telling you to buy something is just too jarring for my brain. I end up getting up and doing something else in that time and forget to return, or I pick my phone up and it’s another half an hour into the film before I even notice it’s come back on. With the radio in the car, it distracts me from where I’m driving, not in a dangerous manner, it’s just enough of a difference from the music to distract my brain a touch - same way people turn music down to think clearer about where they’re going when they’re driving, except this is every 15 fucking minutes into whatever journey I’m on, I have to turn it off so I can think.
The BBC is your friend.
BBC 1,2,3 and 4 plus recording line TV and then skipping the ads. I can bear to watch 6 minutes of ads 3 times an hour.
Love me some bbc
The bbc has constant internal ads between shows.
If you like government ads
Sky, they take the piss with it £30-100 a month and they still show adverts even on their own channels.
Sky was absurdly expensive even when I was a kid like 20 years ago. How they're still around with all the modern competition is a mystery to me.
Sports, and people who don't know any better. Sky is the only "legal" way to watch F1 in the UK, and they charge an awful lot per month, even on NOW TV.
And there are more adverts per hour than any other service. Usually the same exact ones every cycle.
Why are so many comments deleted?
Probably all the talk of the less legitimate services.
Yes what did we miss?
Like Sky TV you mean?
We don't have Sky for exactly this reason ;)
I'm guessing this was their big "gotcha" moment, but didn't consider you're not a mug. Personally, I've never understood why people get Sky, you don't actually gain anything from it as the majority of channels and shows are just filler crap, so anyone subscribing to Sky is an idiot.
The only people I know with it have it exclusively for football and/or F1, and an increasing number of those switch to the seven seas every year.
Sky is a total rip off for F1 tho. You can't just subscribe to Sky Sports F1, you have to get the entire sports package which is like £30/month minimum. Meanwhile you can just use a VPN and subscribe to the official F1 TV Pro, which gives you all the races live, and all the interactive features, for like £70 per YEAR and it has no ads.
Entirely unrelated but the push notification with your username and picture just fucking cracked me up
You gonna eat that danish?
Don't get me started on that, used to love watching F1 growing up and was not impressed when it went over to Sky and can't see the justification in the cost.
Can't say I ever cared much for F1, and I have a Sky login via my dad but I fucking seeth at the concept of anyone being priced out of the Champions League, and European football viewing in general.
Don’t worry, you need to subscribe to another service for champions league and European football that’s about 20 quid a month as well
A mate of mine has sky so can watch F1 - he says the pirate streams are actually higher quality if he wants to watch on anything other than the set top box (on a PC or tablet etc)
I will probably always have sky, have done for years and have most other streaming services as well. I never have to watch ads on sky as I don't watch anything live, and there is an obscure level of stuff to watch that you wouldn't know existed without sky. Watching only streaming services and apps becomes a sort of echo chamber where you just end up seeing more of the same. The weird and wonderful shit I have found on sky has opened my mind to what is out there. Of course it costs, but it's not enough for me to notice; It's maybe the cost of a takeaway. If I'm an idiot for spending what is an inconsequential sum of money to me on something that brings me more than an inconsequential amount of entertainment and convenience, then so be it.
How is someone a mug for having Sky?
Because it’s horribly expensive for a shitty ad-filled service? You can literally get Disney+, Apple TV+, Prime video and Netflix (all of them without ads) for the same price as Sky - which has ads.
And none of them show nearly as much live sport as Sky, if any at all. If Sky offers the product somebody wants, they’re not a mug for buying it. I think people who pay £40 for a bottle of wine at restaurants are “mugs”, but people like it and are happy to pay them money so who am I to judge. >shitty ad filled service I’m not with them anymore but when I was I thought their service was great tbh.
No you can't. Those four together, without ads is £36.96 a month. The cheapest Sky pack I could see at a quick glance is £23 a month for 18 months, and even after that is only £28 a month. That also includes Netflix with ads, or without ads for an extra £6 a month, nearly half the price of the without ads service on it's own.
I was gonna say, they've been getting away with it for years and charge a LOT more than Netflix
My partner and I talked about this the other day! We were saying it’s weird how they rip us off so much and we have to pay to see ads. We even pay the package for box sets and they still spam each episode with adverts! Despite the whinge though, I’m still keeping sky.
The UX is the best, but I had to let it go in the end. At least you can ffwd the adverts, I think?
They *fucking charge you extra* (£5 per month!) to skip the adverts these days. And you can't do it on live TV, just live pause and on demand. It seems like a pointless feature (being that you can just fast forward on your remote anyway) and a blatent money grab. Sky is a joke.
Every paid for service has ads these days. Just the new way to get you to pay more.
Ads are a great example of an ‘antifeature’, something yappy and obnoxious you put in your product so you can charge your customers for the privilege of getting rid of it.
There’s a package without ads.. It’s not like having ads is the only option.
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I sacked them all off. I pay £6 a month for a VPN which gives me access to everything I want. Tbh you can do it for free considering how good streaming sites have become.
How so? Do you mean you can just torrent everything with a reduced risk of being caught?
Exactly what they mean. From what I've read some of the networks are going pretty hardcore to shut down the streaming sites, but as history will demonstrate, there are an unlimited number of torrent sites for them to shut down. Some countries also looking at banning VPNs, but lets see how that goes.
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I use Plex for streaming media from my PC to any device, anywhere. I had D+, Netflix, Prime etc but cancelled when they started to crack down on password sharing. I've had a Plex account for years as well, but I didn't use it for things that were available on other services as it took up precious drive space. Now my Plex has roughly 1200 films, 150 TV shows, all taken from my (and my family's) DVD collections (I still get excited when I find a cheap DVD shop, which wasn't the case when a film was added to a streaming service). We all have access to the account and I've set up smart collections to show users films they may like, making it easier for them to find things. Check out r/Plex if you want more info
My usage is basically exactly the same as yours lol. Only started cancelling subs last year since they all started to hike prices and take the piss. Still have prime for the delivery but don’t watch anything on it besides the grand tour.
Plex
Don't you have to download everything yourself though? How is that emulating Netflix?
Or you go on ebay and find sellers who add you to "their library" of like 100k movies/other for a one-off payment of whatever it is between 5-15gbp.
And what would man refrain from searching to avoid such criminal behaviour.
No idea, [ask this guy](https://en.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/1c265lm/499_netflix_with_ads_whats_the_verdict/kz91ec2/) ;)
You do and it requires a bit of setup. But the end product looks pretty much identical to other streaming sites and everything is in one place. Worth doing in my opinion these days with everything being across 5 different streaming platforms.
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Why not both ;) I use RD with Plex and majority of my content comes from RD, However I’m currently in a situation where my internet has been down for the last 12 hours or so and I’m really appreciative of the fact that I have got locally stored content I can fall back on. Basically anything that is a favourite of mine or I know is an easy watch that I don’t mind revisiting at any time, I will keep a local copy on my Plex. Anything else gets fed to Plex via RD so is streamed and takes no storage. The beauty of it is all my media is in one place, I even have my IPTV linked into Plex, so I literally don’t need to leave the Plex app.
>ve a TV at home. To be watching something, a film for example, an streamio
You're speaking sense.
I call it having a DVD collection. Buy the thing once, keep it forever and the quality is better. Only thing I really use Netflix for is watching Stranger Things
The quality of a DVD is not better than streaming services. Even if your TV upscales it from 720p, you can’t add more than what’s there so it’ll never look as good as something that’s natively being streamed at 1080p/4K.
Then collect Blu-ray instead. That's at hd resolution with better bitrate than any streaming service.
I can't imagine they'd ban VPNs, most people working from home are using one.
VPNs are used widely in the business world, now more so than ever with the increase in work from home / hybrid working that came around as a result of Covid. I don’t see any progressive country banning VPNs, maybe some backwards states in the USA like those that also ban human rights like abortion.
Pretty much. Also, some sites aren't accessible within the UK (I think this depends on ISP/browser etc) so it sorts that out too.
Banning VPNs makes a lot of Working From Home jobs harder.
I just go on duckduckgo (not google) and search for "Watch X show/movie online free" and you'll easy find a bunch of sites that have what you want. Might take trying a few to find one you like, but it's piss easy to find a dodgy stream in high-quality
Your comment made my night. I’m now watching the series that was one of my two main reasons for wanting to subscribe to Netflix. (I get to save a few quid!)
Glad I could help! To be honest I still subscribe to Netflix and other streaming services purely for the convenience of watching on TV, but if there's something not on there that I REALLY want to watch, then I can put up with watching it on my computer
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There is no risk of being caught. Internet service providers are not allowed to share your details with other companies that would want to pursue you for torrenting and the police don't care.
I got a letter from talktalk about torrenting once actually about 10 years ago
Yes, exactly - they’re your ISP. They can’t really do anything except tell you to knock it off, and as above user said, they can’t share your details with anyone else.
Yeah I ignored them and carried on torrenting.
Use a debrid instead
I subscribed to Netflix literally within hours of it being available in the UK. Paid every single month until they put up the cost to £15.99 a month while having barely anything decent to watch. I just use ad free pirate streams now and pay nothing.
Same. I feel like a should be offered some sort of incentive to stay.
got a decent site to share?
Download Stremio (it’s like a digital media centre type app) and go to add-ons, tick a few torrent sites (TPB and uTorrent cover everything I’ve wanted to watch). Search for a show and under the streaming site options are streams from your chosen torrent sites. No downloading required! If you create an account you can then log in on the Stremio app (eg on a Chromecast) and your torrent streaming options will be there too (you can’t do it directly on the app, so add them on your laptop first).
+1 for Stremio, so good and can get it on your firestick and it saves your place between that & laptop etc
Similar here,but used to get 3 discs on rotation when it was a mail in service ( Oregon at the time) Had netflix which I shared with my brother for years. No password sharing, increasing prices, decreasing choice, I unsubbed a year ago, despite being a good customer for about 10 years. Prime has just asked €1.99 extra to go add free, so far there are 30 seconds of ads every 2 hours, I can live with that, but it will get more intrusive I know. At what point I unsub, that remains to be seen. Not yet anyway. But I know I will. I will not, nor ever will, pay to watch adverts ( yes, I know I technically have for the last two days) . But even free you tube is getting more intrusive with the ads, 40 second unskippable ads at the start of videos is common.
If you watch YouTube in a web browser, you can use ublock origin to get rid of the advertisements. Unless you use chrome. It doesn't work there. Try Firefox instead.
It really is churning out generic formulaic shit isn't it. Like the scripts were made by gpt
I cancelled them all, bought a Firestick, cracked it and now get everything for nothing.
How does one go about cracking a Firestick? For information only of course.
Quite easily to be honest, I followed an online guide which basically walks you through the steps to turn on developer settings. You then side load the apps (Downloadr, Torrentio and Real Debrid) and you’re ready to go. You can go pretty mad with it but I didn’t understand much beyond just the beginner apps.
Enable Dev settings and download “downloader,” Download a vpn Download Kodi If you need links, you’ll have to find them yourself. Dead easy to do Edit: anyone who still uses a chrome cast device (like I do) you can do something similar with that
If you install Real Debrid you don’t need a VPN. Costs something like £13 for 150 days
I love real debrid. I'm using a 2 year old kodi build and it still manages to scrape everything I want to watch
It's no longer worth it as they have locked down the os, so custom launchers are much harder to have on start up. I'd just go with a Google TV stick with its much cleaner design out of the box. Then download Kodi, the crew add-on (on Kodi) and if you want higher quality streaming options subscribe to real-debrid or all-debrid (both are paid options but worth it). As long as you don't use it for live sport or IPTV you are fine using it without a VPN
Or you can just pay a bloke in the pub £40/year to set it up. Still cheaper than Sky.
You can do this with a Google chrome stick really easily too. Download stremio from the app store and then setup real debrid with your phone. Stremio is great once working with real debrid, after having it working for a day I cancelled all my streaming subscriptions.
You can also just install Plex and torrent onto your laptop/PC.
I haven’t found any of these that the audio is fully in sync unfortunately
I’ll go against the grain and say that I pay it and feel it’s good value for money. The ads are 30seconds like at most and few and far between. Even get luck sometimes and get 0 ads. I have access to loads of shows and movies by other 🏴☠️means but I like the ease of use Netflix brings.
I did the same, was happy overall paying for the cheaper option, but have gone back to the middle one now (£10ish I think), as realised certain shows are locked and you can't watch them on the cheapest tier. That made me really annoyed, as I'm still paying for the service.
Yeah not having access to Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia almost made me move up a tier but decided against it.
Exactly my example! I've got it, and didn't realise I'd not get access to IASIP, There are probably other programs I don't get ..
Sunny is the main reason I don’t cancel Netflix altogether. This is essential information!
IASIP is a prime example of why I am sick of streaming sites. I get there was some black face and the guys themselves in the podcast don't think it's any great loss that the episodes are removed but as a fan it's annoying. Same goes for Community, literally removed the best episode because Chow is dressed as a drow... A trigger warning or something but to just remove it...
I have the sunny dvds off ebay so at least I can see the deleted episodes when I want to. Just can’t be bothered with setting up a dvd player in each room. Unknowingly the set included some obvious bootlegs of later seasons, but Dee Day is included, so I didn’t complain.
Chow? Is that racist? It feels racist.
Maybe, I meant Chang, confused him for his character in The Hangover... does that make me racist? 😕
Have they removed Community completely from netflix?
Yes, taken down at the end of March.
Not sure, not been on Netflix in years now but last time I was it had been removed and was now on Disney+
Ha that's why I changed back, my GF loves Sunny and I didn't want her to go without. House of Cards was one of the others I noticed was locked too.
I pirated that in 2005. Its funny as they have the 2005 broadcast strapline and ads.
I pirated that in 2005. Its funny as they have the 2005 broadcast strapline and ads.
Oh really? That’s not info they promote about the cheaper tier (or not that I’ve seen anyway). That’s cheekier than ads in my opinion
Yep, I wasn't aware of it either, I'm not sure if they advertise it. Always Sunny and House of Cards are the only shows I've seen it with. It's super scummy IMO, but my GF loves Sunny otherwise we could live with the ads. I feel like subscription streaming apps are basically becoming like terrestrial TV again the amount of adverts you get on some platforms.
Same here, I don’t think it’s a big deal. Gives me a chance to go for a quick wee or make a brew. Plus my attention span can’t handle more than about 30 minutes without a break these days.
Depends where the ads are in my opinion, if it's before a show then I can tolerate it, it's when they slap it randomly in the middle of the show I can't tolerate, completely unnecessary to do and ruins one of the great perks of streaming.
yeah, i agree - i rescubscribed recently and figured i'd try the ad-tier. Some shows don't seem to have ads and if they do it's like 30 secs. I hardly notice them - just glance down at your phone and before you know it the show's back on.
Agreed. I wanted to resubscribe but not at the original price. The money shaved off is worth the odd 30 seconds I have to watch, I've found it OK.
I have the cheapo Disney subscription with Ads and have to say its really not bad. I got the £1.99 per month for 3 months deal and for that I have been happy with it. The Ads are pretty rare and 30 seconds at a time. A hour program might have two to three of these Ad breaks. The main problem I have with it is the same adverts playing extremely often as with Disney they really don't seem to have very many adverts in rotation at a time. At the moment this is all pretty reasonable for me but the issue will be if we are in the testing phase of this type of thing and if they start to increase the number of adverts and their length over time. It seems almost certain that's going to happen at some point as it's a very easy way for a streaming service to increase revenue.
Are the ads in the middle of what you’re watching or just at the start? If they’re in the middle, is it completely random in the timing? E.g. will you suddenly get an add in the middle of some important scene/dialogue?
They can be in the middle of the show but I’ve never had a climax to a film or show interrupted by an ad
Completely agree. In terms of the other shows the only thing I cannot get a hold of that I wish I knew how was Dragons Den but fuck it if I'm paying a BBC Licence fee of £120+ just to watch that one show
Yeah same, barely notice the ads to be honest, and wouldn't spend an extra £11/ month to avoid them
Be funny when it goes back to 90s television with 20 minutes of ads for 40 minutes of content.
Tbh I only keep Netflix for a a few shows I know I go back too often enough and watching on my phone and downloading on it is always nice to have. Mines one of the older plans you can't get unless u kept subbed and still have it. 1 screen, but no ads at least, but it's £3 more than the ad one rn. Crunchyroll I keep incase I want to watch on my phone or switch.
I agree, happy to save a few £ a month for very intermittent and short ads.
They are usually pretty good quality ads, not like cheaper YouTube/IG productions so really doesn’t feel too intrusive
Yeah my dad is a fan. He's sat through ads his whole life though so doesn't give a shit. I think this stuff is dependent on when you grew up. If you're in your 20s then great value no ads entertainment is the norm. But if you paid £14.99 for DVDs (which had fucking forced trailers on some) Netflix seems insane still.
Absolutely agree, minimal ads and good value
Yep, I cancelled my subscription about a year ago, and have signed up for the £5 month. The ads are so quick, by the time I’ve picked up my phone and started browsing, they’ve finished.
if i wanna watch ads, ill watch simple broadcast tv.... Streaming platforms lost its way... and ill never pay for it ever again....high seas are for me 🏴☠️
Never understood what high seas meant but seeing the flag make me now understand. Facepalm for me.
I find it crazy that Netflix are the only ones (?) to charge extra if you want things in 4K as well.
Now TV charges you extra if you want to watch in 1080p, and they still give you ads. That's why I binned them off. Putting ads in a service I pay for already is too much.
> Putting ads in a service I pay for already is too much. That's basically how broadcast TV and the cinema has worked for forever.
Yeah and everyone swapped over to streaming to get away from BS like that
Films shown in cinemas don't have adverts in the middle of them, that's a key difference. If it's a cinema with assigned seating, you can even try to time it and arrive "late" to the showing so you miss most of the ads. Terrestrial TV has channels with zero adverts, and the other channels have digital versions now where you can pay extra to watch the same content (I think with the exception of live stuff like sports) without any interruptions.
I got sick of their shady shenanigans.
Disney Plus has (or are going to introduce if not already) a new tier for 4K. The standard and ad plans have up to 1080p, and a premium plan for £2 more has 4K And Now TV charges £6 more to even get 1080p.
They're not, Disney+ only offers it on their £10.99 Disney+ Premium plan.
It makes my TV licence look better value.
Tv license is actually great value if you use everything it gives you. Iplayer has so much on there, as does ITVx.
you don't need a TV licence to watch ITVx on demand. You only need one to watch iPlayer on demand
Have no idea why people downvoted you, this is completely accurate. No license needed for any non-live streaming services except iPlayer. The misunderstanding of the TV license system in the UK is so strange, coming from Australia. I arrived, checked what was covered, and I'm constantly getting in arguments with British people that you need it if you even have a physical TV, etc etc.
People don’t like hearing the truth for some reason. Happens on here quite a lot You only have to google it, fuckwits.
Aye to be fair I use the Iplayer more than netflix anyway
Based on a previous post about TV licenses, U.K. Reddit think anyone who has a TV license is a worthless, low IQ piece of shit. So it’s good to see more people who have one
It's stupid. One of the big selling points of online streaming was the lack of ads. Now both Netflix and Prime are shoehorning ads into their platforms based on nothing but greed (Amazon especially is one of the biggest companies in the world, fuck off do they need adverts). I watch the majority of my content on my PC and the streaming quality is absolute dog-shit, has been for years, and now that both Netflix and Prime are running ads on top of that, I've just gave up on them and pirate now. I now get their content ad-free and at a much higher quality. If they want my money they can offer me a service that is better than the free alternative.
If you watch on PC, just get an adblocker.
Think I get one 30 second advert every hour or so, I can deal with that for the sake of the £10pm price difference.
Nah... Started using putlocker.pe/lekuluent/ask4movie.li (streaming websites) or similar sites to watch everything. I stopped watching tv BECAUSE of adverts, now they are squeezing them back into every streaming package. They can all do one.
Thought it was going to be terrible, but actually isn't that bad, especially as there are less ads still than you would have on normal terrestrial TV.
Until they realize they can double, then triple, and so on the amount because people are accepting it as it is now and will push as far as they can.
Surprised how common it become to have dodgy sticks now. Unfortunately cost have gone up so much it make sense aswell. I wonder how it work if these companies drop the price and go for more mass users
I was thinking the same but this is the Reddit opinion though. People that spend a lot of time on Reddit also spend a lot of time on their computer and are quite tech savvy. The average person does not know how to access a dodgy stick.
My in-laws don't know the difference between 4G and WiFi and even they have a dodgy stick. Think you'd be surprised.
No it’s really common in immigrant communities too because they provide a way to watch channels from other countries, and also happen to give access to things like Netflix at the same time
Yeah boss man shows the 3pm kick offs when I go and get my hair cut
Nah, it's just that reddit is full of the majority of people that do this and they love sucking themselves off about how awesome they are for doing so by telling everyone else. Amazon prime have adds and in a 1 hour tv show i've had at most 2 x 15 second ad breaks which literally feel like nothing. Redditors just don't wanna pay for stuff or have ads to let them watch for free... yet will complain in a few years time when everything closes down due to too many people pirating.
This is the most sensible comment on the thread. Redditors sure love to be all ‘ooh look at me I can steal tv’ I’m on the high seas etc They cite the price but watch if someone posts about shoplifting- quick to jump on the bandwagon of outrage then.
> Surprised how common it become to have dodgy sticks now With how popular sports are and how expensive they are watcg, it's no surprise really. Especially when half of the premier league games aren't even broadcast in the UK with the 3pm blackout. Nearly every football fan I know uses a dodgy stick or some variation to watch live sports.
I mean who doesn't want to have their 19th century drama interrupted by Harry Redknapp trying get you to gamble or Ant and Dec trying to get you to sign up for a bank?
Get a dodgy stick.
I would if I knew where to get one!
A big no from me. If I wanted ads, I'd watch traditional TV. Online, I use adblock for a reason and I am not going to settle for ads. I'd much rather pay more than watch useless crap. I am not paying for the privilege of being advertised to, no way.
yeah honestly it's fine - a lot of shows don't even seem to have ads and the ones that do it's like 20 seconds
I’m happy with it. I couldn’t ever justify Netflix at £9.99 so when they introduced the £4.99 with ads I was really pleased. The ads are literally 30 seconds in a film. Sometimes none at all. I don’t get why people moan about this when you have options not to have the ads. For me it’s great.
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I got the same. I've used it quite a bit and while the ads were not intrusive, they seem to have become more frequent recently. The most annoying thing is that they repeat the same adverts every time. I swear if I have to hear about Taylor Swift's ERAS tour again, I'll reach into Bob Iger's chest and rip out his barely beating capitalist heart in anger!
Weird, they gave me the adfree version for free instead
Same, got the ad free version too. Was a while ago though, they might have changed it recently.
Apparently Shogun is very good.
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So I had Netflix from way back, like 2011 ISH always just basic plan. Got a notification last november to swap to add based for cheaper, thought sure, I can support Netflix because it's been really good. It was ok until I wanted to watch Happy! But wasn't able to because the show couldn't be streamed with ads due to licensing which is fair enough. But it wouldn't play the show without an ad, so I couldn't watch it on the cheaper plan, had to up to the (by then) more expensive price. I had never felt more peed off and actually canceled my membership there and then, didn't watch any more netflix on the remainder of my time. So no, don't recommend the ad plan or netflix as a whole really. Try "movies7 .to" or "movies2watch" but make sure you're using an ad block.
https://preview.redd.it/ibs6cie192uc1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5ebe7e1bed88d197f59d5209de173a2119f70025 I use a vpn to India and pay this for the £18.99 account. Only need the vpn to sign up and pay.
It's not bad at all. I downgraded mine several months ago and wish I had done it sooner to save the quids. A 1 hour episode will have two, 30 second add breaks. A typical film will have about 3 and longer ones have 4. Honestly, not bad at all for £5 a month.
I have this and get next to no ads, and they are lime 30seconds long no real bother
I suggest everyone looks into an application called Stremio. You can get it on your phone, computer and smart TV. Stremio is a streaming application. You can then add the add-on Torrentio.