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[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Radarr, sonarr, prowlarr (with flaresolverr) and qbittorrent tied to a gluetun instance. Deploy jellyfin, and these rate increases instantly become irrelevant.

[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Flaresolverr was not working all that well for me. I switched to byparr and now I'm using trawl, which seems to fail less.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 points 58 minutes ago

I'll try those as well, thanks. Flaresolverr is working for me (for the moat part anyway, lol), but it's great to know there are alternatives, so thanks for sharing. I'll try them over the weekend.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)
[–] vane@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago
[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

me

but I choose not to pay for it anymore because the product is less convenient than alternative methods

[–] newton@feddit.online 2 points 5 hours ago
[–] yumyumsmuncher@feddit.uk 8 points 7 hours ago

Yawns in Stremio

[–] spacegoat@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

I’ll seed another 2 or 3 of their shows permanently now

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

streaming was never sustainable venture anyways. 8 episode for shows makes them forgettable.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

They are good but there is no easticity for me, the price increasing just makes me unsubscribe

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 4 points 9 hours ago

Well one month a year maybe

[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 69 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Damn, I’ll have to keep not subscribing!

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 16 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not subscribing 20% harder.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

I feel 20% less-subscribed (80% of 0 is 0)

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 84 points 20 hours ago (20 children)

If Streamers were smart, they'd lock pricing and change it for new signups.

Their problem is numbers retention. People would hesitate to cancel if their $8 plan would have to be 15/month or more to restart.

Moving everyone up, just pushes people to cancel, and they'll be even more unlikely to come back if prices keep going up

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 1 points 39 minutes ago

i used to do the one-month binge on one service. then awhile later, do a different one.

prices kept going up. i don't even do that any more.

it's been over two years now without anything but what i already have in my library, or the occasional free streamer through pihole or a ubo-backed browser.

i just don't care about new 'tv' or movies anymore.

[–] EowynCarter@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

It's been a while since I do on and off, watch stuff that interest me on service X then cancel, watch stuff on service Y then cancel, and so on. There are just too many services to be subscribed to all.

Quality of content being the thing that keeps me.

[–] Photonic@lemmy.world 33 points 20 hours ago

It’s not like they don’t know what they’re doing. They studied all kinds of business strategies diurig their “International business studies” or whatever the fuck they did. The C-suite simply doesn’t care about long term retention, they want their bonuses for this year and the next. They know perfectly well they will be replaced in a few years time anyway, whether it’s because profits are not increasing as much as the shareholders want or whether the profits have gone up because of price raises, but down again because customers left.

But in the second scenario they will get a whole lot more bonuses than in the first. So this is what consumers get: enshittification.

[–] vladmech@lemmy.world 17 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

That’s what Dropout does, and while I’m not likely to cancel anyway because I love their content, I’m even less likely knowing if I left and came back not would be on the higher sub price

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[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 12 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

It's a 2$ increase from 13$ to 15$. I feel like most people don't care and it's more of a boiled frog situation than anything else. I doubt anyone is seriously going to cancel for an extra 2$ unless they were already planning too tbh.

[–] TVA@thebrainbin.org 8 points 15 hours ago

Also, don't most people mentally round that up anyways? $13 was already $15 as far as I was concerned, so, this is just raising it what what I basically thought I was already paying. If they raise it again though, it's going to $20 which is gonna be a tougher pill to swallow.

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[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The problem is that everyone who wants a subscription probably already has one. New customers aren't born fast enough to keep up with line go up.

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[–] ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net 27 points 17 hours ago

In related news, piracy of AppleTV exclusives will go up by about 20%...

[–] ulkesh@piefed.social 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] btsax@reddthat.com 0 points 3 hours ago

Streaming companies HATE this one weird trick!

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 23 points 19 hours ago

🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 14 points 18 hours ago (7 children)

Sucks. Still my favorite streaming service because of all the high quality science fiction shows and no ad tier.

So far they haven’t cancelled any of the shows I’ve been super excited for either. It’s not like scamazon or netsux where they do a season and it’s awesome but oh, no! It isn’t #1 for a month on launch!… better cancel it.

It’s still just a billionaire owned company though and likely to do what everyone else does eventually. Can’t wait for the next thing to come along and nuke ads again.

[–] EowynCarter@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Yesh.

They're definitely the ones doing the good stuff these days.

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[–] goatinspace@feddit.org 7 points 16 hours ago
[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

Oh well guess I'll continue using streamio until I can be bothered to set up my jellyfin & friends

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 3 points 16 hours ago

20 percent? That sounds like 100 percent people don't want to pay for it anymore.

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