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- movies@piefed.social
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Once again proving piracy is always the best option.
Seriously. I’m letting my crunchy roll subscription expire because they constantly log me out and lately the content won’t play in Firefox on Linux.
You know what always works and never has issues? Anime pirate sites with an ad blocker. Sometimes the subtitles are better as well.
I canceled mine for this log out issue too not to mention the fact its choices are getting worse. And I’ve gotten so old, I didn’t even know there were anime pirate sites with subtitles lol. Really?
Animetake and anitaku ( use search engine of your choice to find specifics ) among others but you’ll def want to be using an Adblock etc
Amazon signed me up for CrunchyRoll against my will, charged me ten dollars for it. Don’t know how many months this has been going on.
they have a lot of add-on subscription services you can tack-on to your prime, and if you’re not paying attention when you’re clicking you can quite easily end up with one or more of those.
A friend of mine using the account clicked a free trial, specifically checked “do not subscribe” it subscribed anyway and took me months to notice
If I see an ad it’s over. I pay so I can feign being free of ad bullshit subconsciously.
the enshittification will continue until morale improves!
Sorry, who still subscribes to them? They literally hand money over to the IDF.
Where are those goddamn pitchforks.
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Don’t feel like I am allowed to pitchfork as I cancelled it last year or so
We could always do it for their direct financial support of Israel. 💁♂️
The “Bait and switch” is a game playable by both sides!
Get yerr sea legs!I’m doing my part by doing nothing.
I altered the deal right the fuck off.
Sometimes I can’t tell if these decisions are greed, or just rich people trying to make the world a more miserable place.
There’s going to be massive ‘attempts’ to crack down on piracy soon, because in this economy, a lot of people are going to just stop putting up with this (and when I say a lot, I don’t even mean close to the majority,but even optimistically 5% of people dropping this stuff would be huge).
There’s going to be massive ‘attempts’ to crack down on piracy soon
The GOP is on it
Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/republican-bill-would-order-isps-dns-providers-and-vpns-to-block-piracy-sites/
The problem is that streaming cannot be profitable at scale. Not for a company that considers it a delivery channel instead of its own branch of tech, marketing, etc.
And once you can’t offset the expenses with the constant increase of user numbers… this happens.
it never was from the get-go, they thought it would be an endless supply of subbing from covid. also hard to stay when the seasons are so short, and very long hiatuses in between.
it’s greed. all greed. gotta keep the numbers going up. they’ve already sucked-up all the interested viewers so significant subscriber gains are out… only ways that are left is to shed content (which they’ve done–just flat out delete their own shit and not even shop it around) and raise rates like they do whenever their cfo takes a dump.
i think cracking down on privacy is already in the works, but hasnt fully formalized by the gop yet. they will probably try to sneak it intoa bill when nobody paying attention.
Picked the plan I did because it was no ads and my kids like some of the shows. Lol. I will tell them they have 3 weeks so get watching. These streaming services think they are needed when they are just convenient for people like me with very little time to circumvent. I will pay 20 for a service but fuck if I’m watching ads if I’m already paying.
i guess the latest rounds of price increases wasn’t causing enough cancellations.
Already dumped Disney+ when they doubled the subs.
Nothing will improve until people stop putting up with this crap.
incrementally, so they justify it but grumble.
There is content on Hulu I have wanted to watch for about 6 months but I never do because I don’t want to deal with their long commercials and volume spikes associated with their ads. The volume spikes are illegal for TV/Satellite but I guess the regulation doesn’t cover streaming.
Sooo why don’t we just go back to cable then
The legacy Hulu/ESPN/(ad free] Disney bundle for $25 (really only $18 with Amex) was my last streaming service. Ads on Disney is going to save me $18 a month, I guess.
