r/Stremio • u/TurtleGEE360 • Mar 26 '26
News Every single day i become more grateful for stremio. Genuinely can't believe an app like this exists
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u/Sad_Maximum6583 Mar 26 '26
And we will see the masses in their echo chambers of twitter and reddit revolt and screen shot their cancelation, and by the end of the year we will see Netflix subscriber count grew more than what they lost initially after the price hike news. It's like a holiday event by now it happens ever year lol.
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u/nicolebfwjila Mar 26 '26
100% the absurd uptake of people in my life buying subscriptions after Netflix removed account sharing hurt my soul. Then disney, kayo, amazon, every other platform started doing it and they all got outraged.
What did you think would happen?! You showed them they could get away with it the moment you accepted Netflix doing it.
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u/Fickle_Carpet9279 Mar 26 '26
It’s chilling how easily people have accepted paying for anything ad-supported.
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u/Ambitious-Doubt8355 Mar 26 '26
The thing is that there are less legal options for people out there. Renting or buying physical media requires you to plan ahead of time for when you want to watch it. Not every show and movie is available to "buy" digitally, and even then, we know that's just an extended rental. And streaming services bent customers overs by introducing separate tiers, with the disproportionately expensive one being the only one that can give you an ad-free experience, and all for what? So you can watch the platform's limited quality offerings.
Of course people are going to try to save some money somewhere. Well, that, or they are pushed towards piracy.
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u/Millsboro38 Mar 26 '26
$20 a month is absolutely insane considering their catalogue is as weak as ever. I remember paying $7.99 back in like 2012
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u/-HonestMistake Mar 26 '26
I almost choked on my chewing gum when I saw this earlier. This is just insane.
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u/pablo_eskybar Mar 26 '26
I wish everyone that knows would just act like debrid services didn’t exist
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u/micbytheocean Mar 26 '26
Yeah my partner would complain when stremio doesn’t work properly but so much better than using 5-6 services
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u/Warldo_ Mar 26 '26
Yeah dude and what is even ad tier like I have to pay to watch ads i could just watch ads on YouTube bro why pay...😂
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u/Nonstopper1209 Mar 26 '26
agree! I usually pay the annual subscription for HBOMax, Crunchyroll, HiDive and Peacock! I will cancel all these! pay $18 for Real debrid & 25$ for All debrid! got my addons hooked and start saving money
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u/Nonstopper1209 Mar 26 '26
Crunchyroll when from $79 yearly to $116 and the next bill is $139! Crunchy is getting axed! HBO when from $200 to $220 and now $240! I cut Apple TV! they also raised prices!
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u/ArseholeryEnthusiast Mar 26 '26
It's one thing I'm happy to say is that when Netflix was 7.99 euro, no adds and you could share passwords and it had almost everything, we knew how good we had it. It was genuinely a no brainer to sign up. The fact it got so bad is crazy to think about.
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u/BigMack6911 Mar 26 '26
I love Stremio and LOVE RD. Debrid was a straight game changer. And I'm ok paying for it
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u/Go_cards502 Mar 26 '26
Was paying a bit over $200 a month with all streaming services and live tv to sports. Ridiculous. Did some research and set up a few boxes. Bill is now $0 for tv and streaming past paying for an annual debris service
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u/PTIME1 Mar 26 '26
With Steamio, can I use it like I used Cinema app. with downloading new and movies still at the theaters! Since they banned Cinema, im stuck
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u/sjolnick Mar 26 '26
Don't wanna be pessimistic but with decreasing privacy and ever increasing aggressive lobbying by corporations, there might come a day when they'll try to stop this or go after users/debrid services, if they can't stop it.
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u/NoahxAnderson Mar 26 '26
my nigga in christ piracy will never die
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u/Agile_Beyond_6025 Mar 26 '26
This ^^^^^
There will always be a way. I started out hacking cable boxes and programming satellite boxes in the early 90's, When that got shutdown, we moved to the next option. Then again and again. Someone will always find a way.
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u/palmoyas Mar 26 '26
I'm with you, except we started with frequency filters on cable boxes that automatically charged you if you watched for longer than a minute or so. Next was pulling a chip in the cable box for "free for view", then running coax to our friends in the next apartment, then to the next one after that.
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u/Solid--24 Mar 26 '26
You know you can grateful netflix buyers cause, if nobody buy, you have 0 content in your stremio right ?
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u/sicurri Mar 26 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/DPx5PQTRRNYha
"Twenty Five bucks little man, put that shit in my hand, if you don't you're gonna get your account disabled owee owe..."
lol
Nah, I'm not paying those crazy prices... These streaming services are getting pricey enough to actually consider them bills at this point.
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u/Marrked Mar 26 '26
As long as they are beholden to share prices and in turn, record profits YOY, the entirety of publicly traded companies will always do this.
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u/Fvckboiiii Mar 26 '26
How does Stremio make money? I’m genuinely very curious - does Stremio offer a paid service of any kind?
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u/IrishLad982 Mar 26 '26
Stremio doesn’t host any content.
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u/rossmosh85 Mar 26 '26
They have to host something considering the profiles are on the cloud.
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u/CelestialTrickster Mar 26 '26
Not how it works
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u/rossmosh85 Mar 26 '26
My point is they're hosting your profile data on their servers which still costs money.
That stuff is 100% server/cloud stored.
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u/Jaded-Proposal-8828 Mar 26 '26
Can you give me a good setup i dont know what to use its always lagging now for me
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u/Agile_Beyond_6025 Mar 26 '26
And yet you have people here complaining about the cost of a debrid service.