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    Because they can. The objective of any company is to squeeze as much profit as they can. It’s more lucrative to offer tiered services where you have to pay extra for no advertisements so they do it. If they realize enough people are leaving because of it they will reverse it.

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    That’s what enshittification is. Make something good, draw people in, they make your service a part of their lives, and then you fuck them in the ass.

    The best situation is giving money to a company that’s not shitty. The second best situation is piracy. The third best situation is letting yourself get fucked over. It’s really up to the companies whether or not we have the best situation. It’s up to all of us to have the basic dignity to not get screwed over by the worst option, and to choose the second one when they try.

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    look up a guide on how to set up stremio with torrentio and realdebrid. takes all of 15-30 minutes to set up and $15 for 6 months of being able to stream practically anything all in one place. ad free

    (I know not an answer but I figured an actual solution to the problem was preferable to a 20th person explaining enshittification lol)

    eta the important part

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      Thats nice sweetie but probably been pirating before you were born…no offense. My only sub is Netflix. I just thought maybe like a 15 second commercial or something like youtube videos. But was watching KAOS and it was a freaking ads that lasted over 3 minutes.

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        this is a fully integrated frontend that looks like a proper streaming app using a debrid service to provide the content, it’s a wooooorld of difference.

        much much much more convenient and less AP than traditional pirating.

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            I mean yeah if you enjoy the homelab project aspect of it that’s great, personally I was looking into setting up a similar stack when I stumbled across a reddit post of someone who had a similarly huge library that was collecting dust because they just used stremio all the time instead.

            that post is actually how I first heard about stremio lol

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      I am one who can’t live with it. Ass are so brutal and why I never had cable as an adult. I was streaming out of the gate.

      Saw an interesting… Ad I guess… on prime for a new show. I click it. 2 minutes of ads it says in the top right. I just immediately quit and switched to Netflix lol.

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    20ish years ago…

    ELI5 How come paid cable TV channels are now running commercials? Is that not bad for business because most if not all people got it to avoid commercials?

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    if you are paying for any streaming service that has advert breaks, you are the reason there are commercials. imagine if subscribers walked away when they were introduced!

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    You actually have the answer in front of you.

    Yes, people signed up for stabbing(streaming) services, with their monthly fees, to get away from ads. So, the corporations start putting ads in the low tier, meaning you have to pay even more every month to start free from ads.

    Didn’t forget: “good” for the business is “bad” for you. That’s pretty much baked into the very foundations of capitalism.

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      I go to bakery and buy bread. They have more money, i have more bread.

      Good for bakery, good for me. I don’t understand what’s “bad” for me?

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        When they make the bread worse and raise prices to increase their profit margin. And show some ads to make extra profit. And start to pester you with more service tiers and subscriptions before they give you the bread because they’ll be able to scam some people into giving them another revenue stream…

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          So I have to imagine the bad part? Those things haven’t happened.

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    Prep for removal of gate keeping bandwidth with met neutrality.

    GOP will gut NN again, leaving the door open for paying for additional bandwidth. Startups won’t be able to compete if they’re slower, so the big companies will have a captive market just like cable companies used to.

    This gives them the ability to squeeze. More money per customer with less customers is cheaper to manage than more customers at less per-person cost.

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    The line always has to go up. If the company stops picking up new subscribers, then their profits stagnate. And that makes investors unhappy. So to avoid that, they start to jack up the price to keep the line going up. And if that isn’t enough, they then start throwing ads into the services.
    The line must always go up.

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    Because it worked with cable tv back in the day so it will work again if its allowed to. Stop giving companies your money as a general rule.

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      Do you know what else eventually happened with cable? People cutting it by the millions when there was finally another choice.

      It’s interesting that my family went from wasting time siting in front of a big screen tv paying massively for cable channels we never used, to cutting the cable and only paying for 2-3 streaming services at a time

      But it’s even more interesting we continued down this path so our down time is dominated by small screens and somewhat interactive media instead of passively watching. If I stop paying for streaming media, my teens wouldn’t notice. It would just be the people here who would notice, as I complain more about doom scrolling and reaching the end

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    They ran on cheap prices and no commercials to get people hooked. Now that they dominate the market, they raise the prices and include ads for increased revenue.

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    Most people don’t get streaming content because commercials most people got it because that is where they content is and you can choose. When you want it.

    Streaming services didn’t make money when money was cheap to loan. Now money is expensive to get. Company needs to make profit rather than constantly taking in funding . Commercials make money. It kept tv and radio afloat. Streaming is still better than tv

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    The people that moved to streaming to get away from commercials switched a long time ago. Others watched the streaming sotes that had commercials because it was free or aignificsntly cheaper than cable.

    Of course being greedy companies means they want both the subscriptions and the ad revenue.