I’d seen rumours online but got the email this morning.

EDIT: seems like there won’t be ads for everyone straight away.

  • Live events, such as sports, and content offered through Amazon Freevee will continue to include advertising. Customers in the Republic of Ireland, Channel Islands, and Isle of Man won’t see ads in their experience at this time.
  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Options:

    1. Pay no extra and suffer annoying adverts in all movies and shows.

    2. Pay an extra £35.88 a year to get the same awful experience you had before.

    3. Save £95 a year and cancel it. Spend your savings on a VPN, and look into Jellyfin, Radarr and Sonarr. BEST VALUE

    • Corigan@lemm.eeEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Is there a guide for dummies you’d recommend. PVR and etc are unknown terms for me. I used to torrent under vpn but that was in the Limewire days… hoping for some help in the safest ways to return to the seas.

      • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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        9 months ago

        There’s plenty of guides for Linux, but with Windows you’re a bit more reliant on installers and reading some of the guides about setting all the bits up.

        Off the top of my head, you need:

        qBittorrent (for downloading, turn on the web interface, and you can configure it to do nothing if not connected to your VPN)

        Prowlarr (this scrapes torrent data from websites and collates it all together for the other parts of this system, add some sources once you install that)

        Radarr (browse movies and pick which ones you want, link it to Prowlarr and qBittorrent, give it a folder e.g. D:\Movies to download into)

        Sonarr (same as Radarr but for TV, again link it to Prowlarr and qBittorrent, give it a different folder e.g. D:\TV to download into)

        Jellyfin (an open source Netflix, allows you to play the stuff you downloaded in a pretty web UI, or through a client program you can get for a couple of platforms, add the folders you told Radarr and Sonarr to download to)

        Then you tweak everything that annoys you. By default it’s quite happy to grab full 60GB+ Blu-ray releases, which is fine if you’re on a fast connection and have lots of storage, but if a movie is over 10GB or so, it all looks the same to me. Depending on how you watch, you might have to mess with Jellyfin clients to figure out why certain videos won’t play. It’s pretty good but it’s not perfect.

    • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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      9 months ago

      How does a VPN give you access to shows on Amazon that require Prime? Or do you mean it’ll just give you access to more shows than you’d have otherwise?

      • vodka@lemm.eeEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Probably meant in the context of hiding your piracy activities.

      • the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        9 months ago

        like the other poster said it doesnt give you access to amazon’s shows on amazon’s site. Helpful pirates all over the world tirelessly upload “amazon’s” content to the grand line. When I tell people about a show I’m loving it’s always an interesting conversation when they ask me ‘what service is it on?’ and i straight up have no idea.

        perhaps you already know this, but if you don’t, MOST pirate streaming sites have everything from every service right there in a searchable webpage that looks like (usually a discount version but sometimes superior) a paid streaming site.

        It’s not even cope to say they are generally easier to navigate and search than the services you have to PAY for. All you need is ublock origin <—(non-negotiable) and you have access to a superior service IMMEDIATELY.

      • Nougat@kbin.social
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        9 months ago

        The VPN is to shield yourself from DMCA (in the US, of course) while you sail the high seas.