Personally I’m only paying for Spotify (while working away in the background to build my own collection) and Kayo, which is an Australian sports service. There is a little bit of fragmentation for sport in Australia but I’ve been lucky with Kayo as they’ve picked up stuff I was paying for elsewhere and it’s become better value over the time I’ve been subscribed.
Netflix is the only major one I’ve ever really paid for and their password gimmick was the straw that broke that for me.
Could try a better skin for Kodi
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It’s not the most stable but when it works it works really well.
This is reassuring. Sounds like I’ll be good to go in a week when this download finally finishes.
Radarr/Sonarr to acquire most things. Still go around them where needed.
Then I use Kodi for all video. I don’t go off the main device enough to worry about a full server setup for it so I’ll just network share if I need to use another device.
Navidrome and substreamer for music in a proper server config with Tailscale tying it together.
You could use a porn site or look specifically into NSFW services.
A channel i used to watch kept getting banned from youtube for copyright violation so they started using xvideos in addition to dailymotion.
It could still be worthwhile, just not as your only option. Do your local archiving as well but having it uploaded elsewhere could come in handy if the shit hits the fan.
Peertube, Nebula, Patreon, etc. You don’t have to use YouTube.
It’s such a shit condition to have, especially as it goes on.
Most third-party apps don’t show ads which lessens the potential revenue for the first-party. Their idea is that by stopping these options, people will use the “official” methods which will allow serving of ads.
They’re now going back and upgrading it at a cost of even more dollars to get it to where it should’ve been ten years ago.
How was Curiosity Stream?