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It really is a joke. I remember a decade ago talking about how pirated movies were a better user experience than buying a DVD because they were making you sit through ads on the paid product before you could view it, but the pirated product just let you get to what you were watching immediately.
The whole experience is completely backward!
In the end I was finally so PO'd with my Blu Ray needing to update copyright protections and download the latest trailers before doing anything I switch to having a PC connected to my TV instead and threw out the Blu-ray.
I just wanted to sit down for a movie or dinner without screwing around or finishing my meal long before the movie even starts.
With streaming services that came later it was much easier to do that again. However with the cable-ification of the streaming services that PC on my TV is looking pretty good again..
Get a cheap chromecast, install stremio https://www.stremio.com/downloads install torrentio add on for stremio https://torrentio.strem.fun/configure
Enjoy a Netflix like experience with everything available in one place. In fact do this even if you use a pc, I just recommend chromecast because I like having a standard remote to control it.
I'm going to check this out. Currently I cast streaming videos from my laptop to my Chromecast built into my TV.
YouTube videos aren't paid products (and if you do pay there are supposedly no ads), so it's not the same thing. But regardless, the frequency of the ads is insufferable!
The paid service will start without ads, and then they'll put them in just at the beginning and end for a video, then they'll ad them in like they are now and blame rising operational costs.
The playbook has been out in the open for a while now.
We have an entire generation now that grew up seeing this happen everywhere. Its so blindingly obvious this is "just the way internet stuff works"
cf. https://youtu.be/o4GZUCwVRLs (Louis Rossman's latest video)
Shoutout to his Odysee channel.
The unstoppable you wouldn't download a car
Kinda ironic that they put anti-piracy PSAs on DVDs. Like, you obviously bought the movie, but don't you dare pirate it!
With 3D printers, you now CAN download a car.
How's it backwards for YouTube? You pay to not see ads. Seems like that's what you want.