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When did we reach a point piracy has better service than paying? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 days ago by ButteredBread@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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At least for media, piracy websites have a more extensive catalogue (of course) but they also have better privacy which is crazy. And they also allow you to use ad blockers. Sites you pay for would still show ads sometimes and don't even allow VPNs.

At that point there is no point on paying for streaming and if you wanted to support the creators you could do it separetely with merch, other proyects they have or direct donations if any of those are aviable.

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[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Always, It's just been about ability to do so. I did nothing but piracy in the 2000s but then went mostly paid in the 2010s and now I'm back to basically pirating everything but YouTube since family premium ends up being easier and cheaper than the effort to get around it.

However YouTube premium is slowly getting to a point where privacy seems inevitable in my case.

[–] BurnedDonutHole@ani.social 2 points 2 days ago

Same. They can fuck right off. It has come to a point that they are trying to see who can extort the most from their users. I cancelled everything and went back to the good old days. And if you know what you're doing things are pretty good.