plexnose

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plexnose,

I pay for family spotify - we all use it a lot and the Daily Mixes, Release Radar, Discover Weekly playlists are unbeatble. I’ve used Tidal, Deezer, Youtube music before but their playlist creation is nowwhere near as good.

However I do download from Deemix as a backup . For me 128kbp is totally fine for what I need - yes its not the highest quality, but through bluetooth speakers in the car or bluetooth headphones it sounds absolutely fine for me. It might not be CD quality, but its better than broadcast radio, which is perfectly good enough for me.

plexnose,

128 is perfectly fine / it’s What you are getting most movies you download and way better than FM and most DAB.

plexnose,

iOS users have plenty of options here too

  • AdGuard Pro (paid)
  • AdGuard DNS (free)
  • other free dns blockers - NextDNS, ControlID etc
  • Safari addons
  • browsers with blocking built in (eg brave)
  • VPNs with ad blockers built in

DNS and VPN blocks will work on most apps and all browsers.

I prefer Asguard dns and then Safari extension or Brave

plexnose,

I beleive its in Cyprus now - but fair point - NextDNS might be a better option in that case

plexnose,

We don’t - but the risk is minuscule compared to windows. The actual chance of finding some working Linux malware in the wild is practically zero.

plexnose,

Well, the sub had gone downhill recently anyway - endless memes or posts about 'what is seeding' 'what is a vpn' 'what is plex' or just idiots who got an ISP notice and think it means they are going to jail.

plexnose,

because idiots need somewhere to ask 'what exactly is seeding' for the 100th time

plexnose,

This is silly - the delivery medium is irrelevant.

plexnose,

You know that ebooks exist too right?

plexnose,

There's often a lot of bad information about VPNs which is never backed up with any actaul evidence.

Sure, you have to make sure its working properly and bound to your torrent client, but if it is, then that's enough to protect you from copyright claims.

There is no evidence of any commerical VPN provider ever responding to a copyright notice. People mistakenly think this, when all that's really happened is they were not connected properly and their ISP got the notice direct. There is no situation where the copyright troll contacts the VPN provider, find the real user, then somehow makes the ISP send a notice to them. Doesn't even make sense.

plexnose,

Exactly - snd yet people still claim their 'VPN ratted them out' - it didn't - it might hve failed, or the user never turned it on, but the VPN provider didn't get a copyright notice from Disney and forward it an ISP.

plexnose,

VPNs create enough friction for authorities to stop them

Its not 'authorities' you are hiding from when pirating, its just copyright trolls. All they do is scrape IP addresses from torrenst and automatically send a notice to the relevant ISP. If that IP belongs to a VPN provider, the compaint will never reach you.

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