Open it to continue watching a show- 2 minutes of ads. Find the episode, start it- 2 minutes of ads. Forward to the part I left off at, 2 minutes of ads.

Fucking garbage.

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    Have you tried sailing the high seas? no ads out there…

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      Even pirating media from Paramount isn’t worth it. The bigger the audience their media finds, the greater space it takes up in the cultural mindshare, regardless of whether or not it was paid for.

      The only answer is to treat the media produced by fascists and their enablers as material as toxic as their politics. Nothing of value is here, what is here is dangerous and repulsive to us, it is best left shunned and undisturbed, etc.

      There is no shortage of independent creators making terrific work who are starving for an audience.

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            So my process on android is torrent direct to phone then cast/UPnP to TV

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              So in order to circumvent ads. I have to add several different apps, learn how they work, and then set it all up?

              Seems equally annoying. Man I fucking hate how things have become.

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                Open browser on phone > play video on streaming site > cast to TV. Not that hard.

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                It’s minimal effort to learn, I could teach my 6 year old nephew hire to do it in 5 minutes. It means no ads and no monthly subscription.

                But if you prefer to pay for the opertunity to watch ads and give money to a trump supporter then that’s your choice

                You clearly wanted to moan rather than be given solutions to your problem, so sorry for trying to help

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                  I chose neither. It’s fucking ridiculous to pay someone else money to do the same thing that paying the app would result in the same outcome. It’s a lateral move regardless of what you tell yourselves.

                  Either way someone isn’t getting my money.

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                    I’m not sure what you’re talking about with paying someone else.

                    You know totrenting is free, right?

                    I think the upnp app I use I paid about £2 for about 13 years ago, that’s about about one and half pence per month and falling. There’s free options available too.

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          I just don’t have it in me to learn all this stuff just to watch TV. It sucks the way it is. But at least I don’t have to try and understand a whole new technology just to get it to work right.

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            You can have it standing up within 30 minutes and $15/month. Nothing to learn, it’s all web apps.

            Whatbox.ca. Load plex/jellyfin, a torrent client, and sonarr. Honestly, it’s not hard.

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              I can pay less than that and not have ads on the app. This is barely a lateral move.

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                  Because I’m not giving money to someone because they think annoying me is the only way to get it. We don’t reward bad behavior where I’m from.

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                    To be clear, I’m not suggesting you pay them. I’m suggesting you either live with ads or do something about it.

                    The $15/month seedbox gets you anything, not just what’s on Paramount.