The ads are really what get me. I’m fucking paying you and you still show me ads?!
I’m so tired of ads everywhere. I ad block at so many avenues. How do we crack an iPad to get rid of app ads? Is that possible?
It is also possible to block ads using some VPNs. But in general, if you want the freedom to modify things, you should not be using Apple products.
I typically don’t but I have an iPad from being in aviation and gave it to my little one. The app ForeFlight isn’t available on Android. They have a Garmin one but it just isn’t the same.
I use this on iOS and iPadOS. It isn’t perfect and needs tinkering and tweaking. But it does block ads systemwide in most apps (banner ads, not those pesky in game ads usually). And you can customise it by seeing what ad servers were called, and add them to the block list.
Pi-hole network is probably the easiest approcah
Wouldn’t an ad-blocking DNS work just as well?
That’s literally what a pi-hole is.
No, they mean setting your DNS to an already existing ad blocking DNS. You do not need a oi hole to do that. See option 2 here https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html
I do this on my router and phone. It doesn’t block everything, sure, but it blocks more than you’d think. And I didn’t have to fiddle with a raspberry Pi.
If you set up a pihole, most of those in-game banner and popup ads won’t show up on iOS with the default blocklists. You won’t even be able to play ads for rewards anymore without disabling or swapping to a different network. Anything from the prime mobile store will still have ads unless you block the full Amazon domain, but those are the only ones I’ve encountered that are that persistent, and those are easy enough to avoid. Just don’t download anything from Amazon.
As a bonus, the pihole will also block ads across the rest of your network, and you can choose to be really aggressive with what gets blocked if you want, so you don’t need the piecemeal per-device solutions.
If you do opt to set a pihole up, make sure to port forward 53 to the pihole, so android users get the same Adblock perk (android will default to google dns via 53 to serve up ads without that port forward)
If you then set up a home VPN through your router, you can connect back to it when you are out and about and get the same level of ad protection wherever you go.
I grew up with ads on cable, but I think it was back in the digg days someone said cable started that way too. You paid for cable for shows. Then the ads came. Streaming is almost exactly like cable now, except with the on demand part and how it’s over IP.
Yes
Ads were part of over the air but if you bought cable then you had none
Exactly right, it is the greediest model possible people will accept, ads+sub like cable TV and many popular streaming services became are the same garbage following the same enshittification path because art doesn’t exist in most TV and movies anymore, it’s just a commodity/product in a store.
You either die the hero or live long enough to become the villain…
It really was nice while streaming lasted. Shame these companies continually allow greed to drive me back into the arms of piracy.
The open, loving arms of the 7 seas.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ piracy is better anyway, I want full bitrate digital copies not compressed garbage.
Such a shame high bitrate full quality movies/TV shows will semi fade away as these asshole companies only stream their movies at 7 gigs an hour and never release physical media.
40GB Pirates of the Caribbean just hits differently. The black pearl coming out of an actual mist and not layers of gray that slowly recede because of compression is very awesome. FullHD with proper bitrate is enough for my 2m projector image, too.
100% It boggles my mind that very apparent compression artifacts don’t bother the average consumer.
I guess if you don’t know what it is, you can’t realize it is a flaw.
This is one reason why I still buy blu-rays and 4k blu-rays. I’m not a fan of downloading torrents that large, but I can get Criterion Collection blu-rays regularly on sale for $15-$20.
And for newer movies, like the Dune films, I was able to get 4k blu-rays for like $15
If you stream torrented films from your computer to your TV you can get a much nicer bitrate
I remember when an older netflix ceo talked about never having ads on the platform, there was some high and mighty principle about it… But then money!
Never stopped pirating, feeling vindicated rn 💪🏴☠️
So far, BitTorrent hasn’t blocked anything for me.
Did you guys know that your local public Library has DVDs?
They probably have a streaming service too.
Mine does.
You can digitally “lend” a movie for a week and stream it once during that time. It’s free, but more cumbersome than the high seas.
Don’t you mean “borrow”?
They do.
Yes.
Audiobooks as well. My wife only ever listens to audiobooks she can stream from the library and she has yet to run out of things to listen to after years of doing so.
Libraries are less likely to do movie streaming because the service costs them a lot more, but it’s definitely worth checking.
That’s right! Some do have that service.
There’s also tons of movies and TV shows on the Internet Archive because there’s absolutely no content moderation there.
It will take you a lot of browsing because their search function sucks, but you will find a lot of things to watch.
Just do it soon because that’s going to come back to bite them in the ass.
Dvd is SD. They may have BD’s, though.
Yeah they have both. Depends on what people donate.
Sadly, though, this may not be helpful for much longer.
Some films are beginning to completely forego physical release in favor of digital only, and we’re veering back towards “You need a dedicated set-top box for movies” territory with computers and game consoles trying to do away with disc drives.
Yeah I know. 😓
I just read LG has stopped manufacturing blueray players. Meaning, soon, the dvds/bluerays at your local library will be defunct :(
There are many other vendors that still make players.
Fair enough. Its not a great sign that this is likely to continue.
Thinking about it, i wonder how many vendors rely on big players like LG for parts.
You know, like in the phone market and car market for example. Vendors use parts and designs from other vendors all the time. Googles folding screen comes from samsung. In fact, samsung make parts for a ton of other manufacturers.
Vendors use parts and designs from other vendors all the time.
As another example, Apple still uses displays made by Samsung and cameras made by Sony for the iPhone.
How small has that list become at this point?
The answer is piracy.
Example
Devil’s Advocate here, but I wonder if that could be a choice made by the creatives or the production company - like, “we hate advertising and don’t want it shown during our show, so that’s the kind of licence we will agree to”.
I think a lot of people would applaud that sentiment of refusing to have ads in their show.
Unfortunately the result would be that for noble, purity of the art, reasons they end up accidentally screwing people in your situation.
No idea if that’s plausible, but maybe?
Yeah, I feel like there is a lot at play even in terms of how the content is paid for. Maybe netflix only gets the ad money and not the creatives, in which case they don’t want their content on the ad version. Either way, the customer suffers.
As the article states, this applies to Netflix originals too so I don’t know how true this is.
Yeah, I’ll put my hand up and admit I haven’t read the article :-)
That said, I think someone else pointed out that just because a show or movie is labelled as a Netflix Original, doesn’t necessarily mean they made it. So the kind of licence issue I was speculating about might still apply to a bought-in property.
So not a real loss in this specific case.
Arrrrrrrr
DVDs, people! DVDs and Blu-Rays!
I want a digital format that i can store locally. I think i’m forced to buy blu-rays and a blu-ray drive.
Buy the disc, then use Handbrake to digitize.
E: autocorrect
yes just need a blu ray drive for my laptop
Ah. Yes. Sorry. I missed that. I started with DVDs, since mine came with a reader. Haven’t moved to blu-ray, yet, for the same reason.
You also need the right Bluray drive that can be re-flashed before you can extract the contents. If only it was as easy as DVDs.
ugh…i see
There are guides out there to do it or you can just buy one that’s already been flashed to bypass DRM. I bought one 5 or 6 years ago to do it and quit after maybe 10 Blu-rays because it takes forever if you want to compress via handbrake and it’s much easier just to torrent directly unless it’s something obscure.
I was able to watch all of those movies and shows on the Usenet tier of Netflix.
What’s this skull and cross bones flag doing here??? Oh, right. It’s mine. I fly it often…
Yar har fiddle de dee, a pirate life for me.
TIL theres a good place to get free goodies
!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com (inaccessible for lemmy.world users)
Sonofabitch it didn’t used to be blocked for .world. I really need to switch, ugh.
World admins seem shitty, they’re also banned discussion of jury nullification.
They changed the policy to only be against discussion of jury nullification when talking about a future crime i.e. a crime that hasn’t been committed yet. Still not acceptable.
Yeah, .world is pretty shitty in terms of censorship. Wonder why many people stick with that instance.
Got any suggestions for another instance that doesn’t block much? (Or isn’t blocked much, I don’t know what’s happening.)
I’m at lemmy.dbzer0.com - run by an anarchist but you don’t have to be an anarchist to join, this instance is pro-piracy, and the instace where !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com is hosted. Only spam instances and lemmygrad is blocked, but hexbear isn’t blocked
sopuli.xyz - run by a Finnish person - blocks both lemmygrad and hexbear, and spam instances
lemmy.ca - run by Canadians? (I think?) - also blocks both lemmygrad and hexbear, and spam instances
sh.itjust.works - this one seems like the only one that has no application
the last time I checkedI just checked and theres no application - also blocks lemmygrad and hexbear, and spam instanceslemmy.sdf.org - has zero blocks, so they federate with spam instances and possibly illegal content (CSAM) from other instances
lemm.ee - federates with all except 3: (threads.net) (lemmy.burger.rodeo) (burggit.moe)
Edit: I actually am worried about the instances that have low or zero blocks, there are CSAM everywhere, its kinda risky to federate with all.
Mander.xyz has great science content and very sensible policies. But for a more general purpose instance, those above.
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Never see an ad again, every movie and show ever made
I may or may not have done this but even with a 1Gbps fiber connection sometimes it still buffers a lot. :(
I went back to sailing 6 months ago and dropped Netflix and Prime. I can get free shipping most anywhere now, but it’s usually slow to get here. When I tried to watch a show on Prime and got ads as frequently as basic cable I was done.
My original reason to get Prime was that I was building a PC and the no-fuss returns policy seemed like good insurance against faulty parts. Some sellers blame problems on the customer or otherwise drag their feet on returns. TBH I hardly watch Prime anymore, but the ads really are annoying. It’s like “Oh sorry, the pitted olives will have pits from now on.”
It’s a licensing issue. They don’t have the rights to show every movie or show ad supported.
That somehow makes it less terrible?
It’s just facts. Explaining, not excusing, not defending. A statement of facts.
Do you have a source for that? Because some of them are Netflix originals.
For one you can read the article. But it’s a long standing thing. When you license a film or show for streaming, you don’t inherently get the right to show ads during it. Some studios specifically exclude the right, some charge more, some don’t care. The deals made for some of the Netflix originals don’t even allow it, so they can’t show their “own” shows with ads. The reality is often times streaming services aren’t even making their original shows, they’re just paying a bunch of money for exclusive distribution in one or more markets. So, older deals especially, Netflix didn’t negotiate for ad rights because they weren’t showing ads back then. Some production companies don’t want ads running during their prestige show.
they could just show those few titles without ads on the ‘ad supported’ plan. i dunno. that might make too much sense.
Netflix originals.
“Netflix Originals” are content that is produced, co-produced, or distributed exclusively by Netflix. Note that last type. Anything they have exclusive distribution rights for can be labeled an original, even things they didn’t make.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_Netflix_exclusive_international_distribution_programming
It’s greed issue.
