Just rage canceled Paramount+ after seeing the 1 minute of unstoppable ads before each episode.
Then they’ll say people don’t want to pay for content…ffs
Yarr harr fiddle dee dee
Shiver me timbers at Hollywood’s greed.
(For the recond i don’t know what that means…)
Do what you want, 'cause a pirate is free.
We say “yo-ho” but we don’t say “ho”.
Do what you want ‘cuz a pirate is free
For us, we have to watch the unskippable ad during Star Trek Picard, then it jumps back 10 minutes in the episode so we need to fast forward to get back to our place. This has been going on for several episodes.
Ugh I hate that with YouTube ads as well (at least on my Android TV). I’ll watch something, get interrupted by ads, sometimes minutes long and/or multiple ads, and after the ad(s) it jumps seconds or even minutes ahead from where I was watching. Then when I rewind to the point I was at it’ll often play even more ads. It’s super annoying but if they think this convinces me to buy their premium subscription they’re very wrong. It’s so off-putting.
You could just buy the bluray.
Or pirate it.
Or I could just buy the bluray.
We aren’t all savages you know. I get my media in style.
If you pay for the streaming service and it doesn’t let you watch the content how it should then you’re perfectly justified to just download a copy, nothing savage about that.
Provided it’s available in your location, and still being sold/produced. Furthermore Blurays are only going to be harder to find as time goes on with companies like Best Buy stating that they’ll no longer be selling them.
I just bought it off of ebay
Surprised that no one here mentioned Pi-hole. It doesn’t work for ads on all streaming apps, but pi-hole successfully removes all ads for my Paramount+ subscription.
I’ve used Pi-Hole for years now and it’s absolutely indispensable. It’s one of those things where you kind of forget about it then you’re over visiting someone’s house without it and it’s absolutely jarring to see ads cropping up all over the place where you’re not used to seeing them.
I know what you mean.
Browsing the Internet at work is a horrible experience. I’m actually shocked at the ad intrusion that I am usually saved from!
What’s hilarious to me is when friends visit and then always comment on how much nicer it is using their phones on my wifi.
I rarely ever need a browser for work but damn I opened it the other day to search some stuff and nearly every single article was so covered in ads I couldn’t figure out what I was supposed to be reading. 2 sides bars, an floating over head, an ad across the bottom, and some weird floating one that follows as you scroll. How are people not using ad blocks
So does unsubbing and just nicking the bits you want.
But then they still get rewarded with your money
Controld.com also works of you don’t want to host it yourself
DM me if you need help setting something up to replace it
I appreciate it. I’m trying to get familiar with rss and the sort. I am just a bit scared of the rabbit hole where I’ll end up dedicating a whole room of the house to selfhosting lol
I’ve dedicated one single machine to self hosting and I never plan on increasing that. It’s just one big beefy hunk that has a shitty CPU and lots of RAM and HDD space.
Sonarr/Radarr/qBit/Plex is all that’s needed. I pay $5/mo ($15/3mo) for AirVPN and that’s all.
Im doing similar with Usenet and indexers.
Automating downloading of new stuff is so much easier. Toss in overseerr with Plex authenticated requesting… You never have to touch it. Tis amazing
You got any tutorials for that? I’ve been interested in setting something like that up for my own media library but just haven’t gotten around to it. Might make for a fun weekend project.
Snag you a micropc from Amazon for like $150 and an external HDD and you’ll be golden. Selfhosting can be as small as you want. Hell sometimes I wish I had a tiny PC and a couple of 18tb externals.
Good luck op
I use a old laptop with a 3rd gen Intel processor, probably worth less than $30 right now, with straight debian headless and it works like a charm organizing and streaming. I just avoid transcoding wherever possible.
Look into radarr and sonarr to handle all the media acquisition.
No no, you misunderstand. The subscription is so you’re allowed to watch ads. It’s a privilege! 😅
Yeah but how are these poor dears supposed to create ever-increasing shareholder value with a pure subscription model?
Paramount are yet another company who do not have enough content to justify their own streaming services.
They put billboards everywhere, and each one lists like 6 shows that I couldn’t give a fuck about. They’ve not even got enough content for a billboard, let alone a paid for service.
I just use it for Star Trek. Once I’ve finished Lower Decks and TOS I’m cancelling.
I’ve learned that (at least on both Android and Google TV) you can start an episode, immediately go back then start a different one and there will be no ad.
On Firefox with ublock, you have to hit the play button 3-4 times, but it works and there are no ads.
I just got star trek Picard in my jellyfin instance. I have a hdhomerun that is used for live TV and recording live TV like older star trek.
No DRM and I control it all
But then you have to watch Picard 😢
I haven’t noticed any ads during my Fraiser rewatching
I only like Paramount+ for the Italian Serie A and Champions League. A bit different cause it’s live sports but besides that I don’t utilize it too much.
We got a skippable 30 second ad, then the Paramount logo, then watched 2 seasons of Star Trek strange New worlds without a single ad.
You sure you didn’t just hair trigger yourself there?
I still think you shouldn’t have video ads in a paid streaming service. Even if it’s just a single ad during a watch session. It shouldn’t be there when you’re paying to see the content
It happened on 2 episodes in a row, with over a minite wait until the episode. Both times the same ad, which makes it even worse, for a 20 min episode of lower decks. I’m sensitive to commercials when I’m already paying premium.
What country are you in because I just turned it on and tried to play an episode of lower decks, and I don’t get any ads, so I’m wondering if it’s only in some parts of the world.
I have a subscription in the US and have been watching Picard and Lower Decks – the few ads I get are their up front spam promoting other shows (I hit reload and the ‘forced’ up front ad switches to the CBS logo and plays in a couple of secs). Another show I watch has a few ads, I think the are trying to see how much they can get away with before people cancel. I bought a year at 1/2 price and I won’t be reupping, its a pretty low value and quality streaming service on all fronts (ads, content, video quality, app/site navigation and player, absolutely no useful technical support if their player or service is glitching, cable company class customer avoidance policies and systems).
The video quality on easynews is also much better should I want to watch more star trek in the future.
Us
I definitely feel the hatred towards all things ads, I would probably cancel as well if I was in your position. Fortunately 1 ad per session is the rare exception to my ad free viewing (and I did curse quite a bit at that ad, whatever it was for)
