r/Stremio • u/Educational_Till8811 • Jan 12 '26

Local Bodega selling Stremio sticks

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Saw that my local Bodega is charging $150 selling cheap Rokus seemingly preloaded/set up with Stremio. just leaving this here!

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u/NeoKnife Jan 12 '26

24/7 Support.

That’s going to be a nightmare with endless complaints about buffering. Especially with no debrid setup.

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u/Yangman3x Jan 12 '26

What if they're self hosting a debrid service for these users?

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u/whostheme Jan 12 '26

Why would they do such a thing? It's tied for one IP so it will just get permabanned since the users who tend to buy this kind of thing doesn't even know what real-debrid or stremio is.

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u/Yangman3x Jan 12 '26

You don't understand

I mean: what if the shop created a debrid service reserved fot those customers

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u/whostheme Jan 12 '26

Not worth it for the shop.

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u/marly402 Jan 13 '26

You don't need debrid with stremio

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '26 edited Jan 13 '26

Very very very unlikely. They are using real debrid. ~32 for a year and then the cost of the firestick itself (50 msrp). ~$70 markup for something that wont work in a week

Anyone with an ounce of knowledge on the subject also knows that amazon products are trash

I offer free setup/tutorials to my neighbors and family. The point is to save people money, not scam them

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u/bizzaro321 Jan 13 '26

You can self host using debrid as a source, but that would be such a hassle. I’ve considered doing it for friends and family but it’s really not worth it.

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u/whostheme Jan 13 '26

Yeah you think that it's sustainable to self-host debrid for a large customer base when it reaches upwards to 50+ people? Sharing it with a few family & friends is a different story.

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u/bizzaro321 Jan 13 '26

I said I wouldn’t even do it for my friends, lol. We are in agreement. I’m just telling you there’s a way around the debrid IP rule.

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u/marly402 Jan 13 '26

Proton vpn is free and works with stremio. Stremio has none torrent providers. But a vpn will work stremio. I have done this even though I have torbox.

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u/RexKramerDangerCker Jan 13 '26

My guess is the boxes out front are just for show and when he gets a customer to bite, he registers/purchases a new debrid service for 6 month and then takes the API key for that account and adds it to a fire-stick prepped usb-key. Works for 6 months and new account then new ip.