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The worst - YouTube TV They show you ads for YouTube TV, literally while are you watching TV with your paid YouTube TV subscription. How many ad dollars are just being flushed down the drain...
This is meant to be a replacement for normal cable....which also shows ads. As far as I know there is NO live cable service that is ad-free.
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The worst - YouTube TV They show you ads for YouTube TV, literally while are you watching TV with your paid YouTube TV subscription. How many ad dollars are just being flushed down the drain...
"already have it" seems like a fairly simple, common, and oh so fustrating problems especially for services that already know your email. Right now the worst offender for me is IBKR for egigh I get ~10 ads per day on YouTube despite both being linked the the same IP/email/device/browser as he service. Likewise with Amazon showing you an ad for a product you literally bought minutes ago as if you'd want to buy another…
Like I understand the complexity in optimizing that query for Amazon and personalized product history, etc.
But YouTubeTV for Pete’s sake, is a static property of the network. It doesn’t change for anyone already watching YTV and therefore subscribed.
Just don’t put YTV ads on the YTV network. Simple as that. Someone legit went and added them.
“Already have it”!!!
As an alternative, I recently setup Nextcloud on an Ubuntu running vm using the snap package[1] and it took around 30 minutes in total. 1: https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloud-snap
I did the same some months ago - just a heads up that it's not without it's rough edges, but definitely does a near-enough-to-what-i-want job. I've noticed a few unsynced images and am currently struggling to get the android app to stop trying to sync a gigantic folder.
As an alternative, I recently setup Nextcloud on an Ubuntu running vm using the snap package[1] and it took around 30 minutes in total. 1: https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloud-snap
Nextcloud works quite well. And you have also a calendar and some other nice features which DropBox not provides. Also the desktop sync client as well as the android client(s) works quite well.
What is the best Dropbox alternative for Linux user? I do not want Electron based sync app and do not mind paying for secure file hosting. I'm using Dropbox as remote backup server, to complement local backups, but data size is only about 100GB.
I've very happily moved over to Syncthing. For a small installation you could use a VPS at Digital Ocean or Vultr. You could even get a Raspberry Pi and a cheap external hard drive.
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> The Syncthing Foundation stands against racism! Read about what we're doing. Ugh, is anyone tired of every website's insistent virtue signaling?
Yes, but I feel like in the end it'll do more good than harm.
No, it's really just obnoxious, imagine meeting a person for the first time and they say "Hi, my name is youbookface, and I'll have you know that I'm not a racist and here's a list of all the organization I've donated to!"
A year ago, I replaced Dropbox with Syncthing [1] for all my private use. It syncs directly between your devices without need for a central server (except for device discovery). I use it without an always-on instance (NAS, cloud server), so it only syncs when my Laptop and Phone are on at the same time. This is enough for me. It just works (TM). [1] https://syncthing.net/
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Yeah, piracy is almost always the better service. How the hell can a bunch of enthusiasts come up with a better service than multi-billion dollar companies? They seriously need to stop and rethink their industry. When I use my Netflix I get a horribly compressed "high definition" picture, annoying autoplaying ads for shows I don't care about and a constantly decreasing amount of content. Piracy offers the opposite of…
I think all creators should have a pirates donations box so pirated content doesn’t impact the creators that much.
My 960 GPU in the htpc doesn't quite have the bit depth that Netflix wants, therefore it disables 4k entirely. Bought the GPU at the time as it was the first with hardware HECV, has zero issues playing back a 4k encoding by someone else..