Are you cancelling streaming services?

With the simultaneous rollout of restrictions on account sharing and price increases/addition of advertising, I’m cutting back severely on streaming services.

I allowed my streaming subscriptions to grow without thinking about it. Without trying to remember the constant merging and bundling, I was subscribed to probably a dozen services at one point. They ranged from Netflix and HBO and Hulu to Shudder and Showtime. I had Paramount, Criterion, Disney, Peacock, and others. I’d do the typical thing where I’d search for a movie, find it is exclusive to a platform, and grab the free trial and forget to cancel. I excused it if I found a movie even every couple of months on it. There were still nights where it’d take an hour to find something I wanted to watch. I was probably closing in on $200/month all told, and I don’t have sports subscriptions.

I’m interested in learning what other people are doing regarding the price hikes and service compromises. Are you cancelling? Are you taking advantage of bundles with your internet services? Are you rotating on some interval? Or are you not changing at all?

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cleverusername,

I cancelled Netflix the day they blocked my elderly parents from accessing my account.

I was paying for 4 streams, it shouldn’t matter 1 stream was at my parents house, they were still getting their money.

Don’t worry Netflix, we still get to enjoy your content via torrents and my parents still get a convenient streaming app full media via Plex, so you can eat shit Netflix!

penguin,

I did the same thing and have the same attitude. I still watch what few Netflix shows are any good. They just aren’t getting any of my money any more 🙂

cleverusername,

I do have to thank Netflix for motivating my to try Plex and see what my uplink could handle, about 3 1080 streams, so there’s that positive.

DemBoSain,
@DemBoSain@midwest.social avatar

I canceled Netflix, but I stayed on their mailing list so I know about new shows I might like to watch. My frigate is now a submarine that goes beep, beep. (it has sonarr, I guess would be the main point I’m trying to make here)

cleverusername,

Before ditching Netflix I added all my current shows to a calendar/tracking website, which I check every few days and grab anything new, new new shows, in just rely on word of mouth and/or social media.

das,

Check out Overseerr if you use Plex, or Jellyseerr if you use Jellyfin.

It will show you popular and upcoming movies/tv shows, and you can integrate with with the arr suite to have users able to request and download the shows.

It’s fantastic, especially if you’re sharing your media server with others

AbeilleVegane,
@AbeilleVegane@beehaw.org avatar

Thank you so much, I was looking for something like this!

hardaysknight,

I’m confused. Does this automatically download media?

das,

It will send the request to sonarr or radarr to download it, if you have those set up.

VitabytesDev,

Don’t use Plex, use Jellyfin. Plex tracks everything you watch and do. Jellyfin is free, open-source and self-hosted.

cleverusername,

Are you going come here and setup my system, then install apps on mine and my kids devices and show them how to use it AND then travel to my parents house, install it on their devices and explain to them how to use it?

No? Guess I’ll stick with the free self-hosted Plex.

BobbyBandwidth,
@BobbyBandwidth@lemmy.world avatar

I see this argument a lot, and I’m sure you’re right, but I was curious, why don’t people set up a url for jellyfin that your family can access over the internet, then they just have to go to a website and log in? Would work for TVs or any device that connects to the internet

VitabytesDev,

I have a Smart TV (not Android TV) that can access the internet and it works fine through the web interface.

Scary_le_Poo,
@Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org avatar

Jellyfin lacks a lot of features that Plex has. It also is prone to a lot more problems. Once it matures some more it’ll be a fine replacement.

jeanofthedead,

Jellyfin still has a lot of catching up to do, unfortunately.

hellweaver666,
@hellweaver666@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Tried Jellyfin and it was a pain to get running on my NAS (the only add on in the Synology store is a random community port that doesn’t work well and the apps for the TV are all janky). Will stay with Plex until they sort it all out.

VitabytesDev,

Yes, I believe they have pretty bad documentation, but I after a lot of pain I was able to get it working too.

IsoSpandy,

I got tired of all this B’s long time ago and just resorted to torrenting. I missed the series management and resume feature so I coded a app to do it.

PS: in case anybody wants to use it… It’s open source. github.com/Dr-42/offflix

yokonzo,

Good sir you are a gentleman and a scholar

IsoSpandy,

Thank you so much

lustrum,

Cancelled all subscriptions apart from Usenet and VPN.

Now I just pirate it all and bang it on Plex. All in one place on all devices, easy peasy

pensa,

In my experience, Jellyfin is better than Plex in every single way.

lustrum,

I don’t disagree but it was hard enough getting my dad and grandma to work plex. I’m not changing now.

Plex is working really well for me at the moment.

otter,
@otter@lemmy.ca avatar

Solid reason to stick to Plex. A few of my friends just stayed with Plex until they moved / their setup broke, and switched afterwards

Zikeji,
@Zikeji@programming.dev avatar

My entire family uses Plex and I managed to get them using it years ago. I still occasionally have to help them setup a new device.

I’ve toyed with the idea of setting up Jellyfin for personal use, but I’m not ready to set aside the time it’d take me to get them on Jellyfin.

SeedyOne,

What’s specifically so much better about it? We’ve got years of watchlists and customizations to our Plex and it works flawlessly but if there’s a compelling reason beyond “it’s the new hotness” I’m all ears.

pensa,

Because it's FOSS. I'm sure there are other reasons but if I am putting my pirated stash somewhere I don't want a proprietary program to have full access.

SeedyOne,

Fair enough, thanks!

ieightpi,

Was looking up Plex and I don’t understand it. For example I looked up a Netflix show and it asked me to subscribe to Netflix.

What makes it better? I’m lost

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted,

Because it’s not a streaming service in the sense that it provides the content. The user provides the content; it just provides the streaming functionality.

Okalaydokalay,

Well Plex does offer some content too. I was able to watch Sister Sister and some other shows that are not on my server but offered by them.

I have a Plex Pass I pay for monthly, but not sure if that’s the reason I could or if it’s free to anyone with a Plex account.

jws_shadotak,

Plex allows you to host your own media and will match filenames to metadata. You point it to the folders for your movies and TV and it’ll start searching through and adding them to your Plex server as streamable media.

There are ways to automate the searching and downloading of your desired movies and TV. Pair it with Plex and you have your own personalized streaming platform with just what you want to see.

lustrum,

Yeah I run Plex with the Arr dockers.

I use an app on my phone and it’s all just done for you.

Someone recommends a show or movie? Open app, search for show and add it.

In the background the setup will automatically search the download providers you’ve setup (Usenet or torrents), filter them for the quality profile, download the files and place them in the correct folder ready to stream on Plex.

It’s so seamless once working.

Kit,

Do you have a guide for this? I have Plex with Plex Pass but I haven’t been able to figure out how to get media beyond manually RDPing to my server and downloading a torrent from a private tracker.

lustrum,

I built it up over months.

The simplest setup though I copied from Spaceinvador One on YouTube.

dditty,

I just did this a month ago on my Synology NAS following this guy’s guides:

drfrankenstein.co.uk

It’s done via GUI on Synology’s OS so the process is different (ie longer, more tedious) than just using Docker compose on Linux.

I’m using Overseerr plus the other *rr apps for ppl to request movies and shows via a self-hosted website, and Requestrr so friends can also request via a Discord bot

otter,
@otter@lemmy.ca avatar

It’s a self hosted Netflix, so you fill it with your own files (however you obtained them) and it handles everything else

You can also look into Jellyfin, which is a popular open source alternative to it

solidgrue,
@solidgrue@lemmy.world avatar

I’m not your down vote, but fuck Plex. Resource-intensive code to start, and also fuck their pushy cloud-first posture. I dropped them like a hot potato when they obfuscated requiring a cloud account to watch streaming locally. Shady stuff, especially when you’re self-hosting.

Jellyfin is WAY less intrusive. It just works for local streaming, and for discreet sharing among trusted affiliates. Maybe not as pooshed or feature complete as Plex, bit it’s far less obnoxious on my resources, and my affiliates

danie10,
@danie10@lemmy.ml avatar

About 3 months back I cancelled Netflix (after being in it for many years) and moved to free Tubi.

jeanofthedead,

I’ve been using Stremio with Real-Debrid for about 6 months now and I don’t see myself going back. It’s too perfect.

ShittyWizard,
@ShittyWizard@sh.itjust.works avatar

Ok, you got me. Do I need to have a VPN active while streaming via Debrid (or any third party add-on) to stay safe? Also, I can’t find “Real-Debrid” among the addons of stremio, only “Debrid Search”, is that the same? Anyway, thanks for making me aware!

Brainded,

You install the third party add on “torrentio”. There are guides out there

jeanofthedead,

Only if you have torrenting enabled in the Real-Debrid add-on for Stremio. I disable torrenting, since I only want to use Debrid cache files.

Torrentio is the add-on where you add your Debrid connection and disable torrenting and narrow down your quality selections. Enjoy!

ShittyWizard,
@ShittyWizard@sh.itjust.works avatar

Awesome, thanks!

Arkhive,

Could you elaborate? I looked up both services and it seems to just be a media front end and a downloading tool. How does that get you the actual files to watch.

jeanofthedead,

Debris services (Real-Debrid, AllDebris) basically cache most popular torrents and give you direct https links to the video streams. Frontends for these services include Stremio, Syncler, etc. I adore both, but Stremio is much more lightweight which works better on my GoogleTV / FireStick. You select what you want to watch (the apps sync with Trakt, fwiw) and it immediately shows you the versions it has available that are cached. I choose 4K Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos whenever it’s available.

Arkhive,

Thanks so much!! Seems like a cool service. Reminds me of popcorn time, which I don’t think works anymore. Are you still routing all your traffic through a VPN when using that? Seems like a privacy nightmare should any action be taken against those companies.

jeanofthedead,

Naw, I don’t bother with a VPN since I’m not torrenting anything. I just set my router’s DNS to something other than the ISP’s default.

Perhapsjustsniffit,

Been pirating and then free streaming since it was possible. I’m almost 50 and haven’t paid for big box tv or movies since the 90’s.

krush_groove, (edited )

I get a lot of value out of Netflix, I watch tons of their shows every month.

I use Prime quite a bit also obviously for Amazon shopping and try to watch Prime Video a few times each month, and now they’ve expanded the music I’ll try that too.

I will be canceling Disney and just pirate what I want to see, which isn’t much, literally just one show.

E: I canceled Spotify ages ago and use their free version but for my favorite bands I downloaded their MP3 discographies. I buy their music on CD because it pays them better than streaming their songs thousands of times, plus I buy merch and go to the concerts so I’m OK with that.

E2: someone mentioned Patreon, I cancelled most of those as well because my gaming group broke up and all my patreons are for gaming 3D files. I have years worth of stuff to print and will never reach the end.

joemo,

I’m not changing my habits, but I probably should. My girlfriend and family use the streaming services more than I do. If there’s something I need to watch, there’s always ways to watch it online. However it’s easier for them to use the legit streaming services ha.

vitor_sk0n,

Only Tidal for me… cancelled Netflix when they hiked the prices at the beginning of the year I believe

CheshireSnake,
@CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

Yup same. I was with Qobuz until it started having issues (kept buffering even if there’s no problem with my connection). Apple music is buggy on Win 10 and sounded worse than Qobuz so i skipped it. I’m now on Tidal (fuck MQA still) but still looking for goodbetter music streaming services. Netflix can rot.

Abracadaniel,
@Abracadaniel@hexbear.net avatar

Eventually Netflix will kick me off the family account but there’s no way I’m paying for that garbage. I might pay for Hulu as they have a much better selection for my tastes.

vodnik,
@vodnik@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve cancelled them all and started sailing the high seas since the beginning of the year. I’m considering picking up Crunchyroll, though. It’s just easier to pay for One Piece than pirate it.

PhlubbaDubba,

I’m only on Crunchyroll since other services are through family accounts, I am considering dropping some of my Patreon subs because of belt tightening I might have to do though.

z2k_,
@z2k_@lemmy.nz avatar

Cancelled my Netflix account when they announced the password sharing crackdown (even though I wasn’t password sharing), and recently cancelled my Spotify family account when they increased the price.

Destraight,

I have never got into Netflix, or any other subscription services. KissAnime, and pirating is what I use to watch shows, even then I don’t watch much shows

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