Well, I was planning on looking into RealDebrid over my week off in winter, but I guess that's done now, damn.
Been using traditional methods to get my isos and store them locally, and on arrs/Plex for well over a decade.
Honestly the debris stuff never ever interested me, unless the data is in your control locally the rug pull is always on the horizon.
I do wish we could make it easier for non-technical folk, not everyone is wrong in the head like I am to be happy enough building and maintaining a NAS and the software stack required.
My friend just hooks his laptop up to his TV, connects to his VPN, and plays popcorntime (streaming torrents). He used to use streaming sites, but those have been getting taken down left and right.
Real debrid helped me download torrents that had 0 seeds when I tried in any. More than once.
Sad to see them go.
Also great for those files that can only be found in premium sites, even scribd.
Unfortunately not everyone has access to cheap storage so for us a few bucks a month is more cost effective than having to upgrade expensive storage regularly. 😓
Upgrading? Regularly? stares at 25x2TB ancient array
Still more up front than a few dollars.
I’d recommend a move to torbox, trying it out now and honestly like it more than RD.
Thanks RD for helping me find a better service
Bummer, I renewed my subscription for 6 months just two days ago.
I guess this'll finally be an excuse for me to setup Jellyfin and the arr-stack. I really don't mind too much (honestly I'd be fine just downloading torrents manually for whatever I want to watch) but my roommates really appreciated how easy to use Stremio is.
Me too, last Friday
You should probably try to get your money back via chargeback. This service is basically useless at this point, so might as well get money back better spent on something else if you still can. Worst they do is ban you from the service, a service they have already made not worth it anymore.
CC: @Evkob@lemmy.ca
Eh, I won't die over 20$, it's due to something out of their control that anyone could have seen coming, and I've been quite the satisfied customer since I've been using Real-Debrid. I wouldn't judge anyone for doing a chargeback, but I personally don't really feel the urge to do so.
That is true, $20 isn't much in this day and age. It's not something you're going to die over or be in trouble without. I would still do it mainly out of principle since I'd rather not help them along with one more payment like that. Of course I haven't ever signed up for them, and I obviously never intend to now.
Glad I never subscribed to it.
Me too, I kind of always saw this coming and it really pissed me off when elitist pirates would try and bully people into buying it. Now I can and will rub their faces in it.
I wouldn't call anyone buying into a piracy service an elite pirate, they are the piracy equivalent of script kiddies.
I mean I'm just gonna go buy an identical service, so have fun with your face rubbing.
I was mainly taking a jab at the original Kodi addons community which had a lot of very toxic and elitist people in it which would bully people for not wanting to buy, specifically, RealDebrid to use for addons which only work with RealDebrid. These people are very much screwed now because many of those addons were RealDebrid exclusive and are effectively broken because of it. They were warned about this many times before and they laughed at the people who warned them about this happening.
Just in time for Usenet Black Friday sales :)
And what country are they located, pray tell?
They're located all over the world, just find one that's close to you and enjoy :)
So....they're yeet proof? As in ..harder to get yeeted?
What are peoples preferred alternatives to use with stemio?
As others in this thread I literally just paid for 6 months on Realdebrid Woop!
Do a chargeback, get your money back for it, assuming you can and it hasn't been too long. What are they gonna do? Ban you? Ha that's rich their service is about to become darn near worthless, that's an empty threat that doesn't have any teeth. Download your existing files and get your money back from them.
AllDebrid or Premiumize are both popular alternatives. AD is considerably cheaper, even with Premiumize's Black Friday sale in right now. However, Premiumize allows multiple connections, so if you can split the cost with someone, it becomes the cheaper option.
I would hold off on switching to AllDebrid for a bit, because they are also based in France and may be hit with a similar order.
Yeah being in France for RealDebrid was weird for me and I knew one day it will come to an end.
there is also torbox and debrid-link fr
I am so glad I didn’t renew my subscription in September sheesh
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