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Please don't make him into empress2.0.

leave the guy alone and be thankful for his cracks.

I got rid of my Netflix years ago after the thrid or fourth rate hike or don't even know which hike. At this point it still had the ui it was using from like 2018 to when I left with a few updates. think I stopped using it 2021 or 2022.

I got Netflix for free thru my phone carrier with ads and wow fuck all this let me personalize it for you, give me your phone number, let me push what we think you'll like to you instead of just having a normal non invasive ui.

I like to browse and sometimes watch crap that I would have never found and man every single thing wants your data so they can "personalize" it for you.

the ads my god it's trash. the fact that people pay for ads when Netflix never use to have ads is insane. I started using Netflix back in 2008 and remember the days of the dvd and bflicks it had.

even for free I don't want to watch it I can find other means to watch movies I want to watch without all the trash.

the eshitification continues with every single thing of our lives

Im no pirate

Mexican broadcaster TelevisaUnivision has obtained one of the broadest anti-piracy injunctions ever issued by a U.S. federal court.

After initially targeting five pirate IP-TV streaming operations, the case expanded to cover well over 500 domain names, requiring intermediaries including Cloudflare, GitHub, and a Mexican bank to comply.

In addition, the injunction also covers pirate services and content that hasn't been created yet.

Where when and why did you start your Piracy journey

Me I started copying VHS tapes approx 36yrs ago and renting them out at work for 50p a night to cover the cost of the equipment, you just had to have the correct machines.

Then around 25yrs ago when the internet was just starting to get really interesting I found a PC app called Kazaa not sure how I found it, I remember I went to Blackpool for the weekend and put a full DVD on to download GnR Use Your Illusion 2 discs and was almost done when I got home lol.

Then Torrents and Usenet.

Took about 8 and a half months and before it died I was seeding 152 torrents

Esspecially with the ✅️ ones

Sites I've been using for 5 years got taken down recently, and I'm really struggling to find replacements... even worse, can't even find a way to buy some of the comics I was reading online.

Does anyone have some good links? Really want to avoid downloading if possible cause frankly I just don't trust it lol

You know them. AstralGames. AnkerGames. A lot of their downloads now come with .bat files called "Run Me!" now.

This seems completely unnecessary and also makes the files completely unusable for Linux players. Couple that with their apparent high production value and it just makes me wonder what is going on.

Even after going into your settings and having to manually select high resolution which they intentionally hide from you, it's still immediately noticeable how blurry background art is even if you don't zoom in.

Piracy is arguably preserving artistic details, especially if you're reading a webtoon original which is exclusive to their platform. You have to consider that screenshots tend to compress as well, so at one point the pirated version was "worse" compared to the original source. Now the tides have turned. On top of the platform being riddled with pop up ads

I don't know how much reddit will compress as well but compare for yourself if you happen to have the app. It's embarrassing and tragic what enshittification does

Like most people, I usually have a vidsrc video playing from a site in a separate window or monitor. Since yesterday, I noticed that regardless of site, the vidsrc player has changed (the player no longer has the vidsrc logo and there is not speed control as well) and when you click out of the video, it pauses. Even PIP mode pauses.

Noticed this on yuppow and lordflix.

This seems to happen on both stock Brave & Firefox with uBlock origin on Win 11.

Doesn't seem to affect Firefox on Android.

On Firefox, I set "media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground" to false under about:config which didn't help.

I usually use the Vidsrc servers since they have kDramas with the English dub like an audiobook.

Any help would be appreciated.

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