Stremio is free. Real Debrid costs about $3 per month, though.
Switched to this and never been so satisfied. Hard to get old and not streamed shows though. And stremio has plugins that support some streaming sites as well.
What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription
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#22Can anyone give me an honest review of Kagi? When AI can summarize the web results and search for me, I have stopped using Google.
It varies from person to person because everyone uses search differently. Someone I know swears by it and loves it. I tried it for three months using only Kagi and it didn’t feel worth it to me, so I went back to Google. Your experience might be different so my suggestion is to try it yourself if you can.
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#23I like the AI-disclaimer :). This might become a thing for blog and news articles: (c) all words written by on without AI. And then there will be a robots.txt directive that allows collection of this self-declared human material for AI training. And a google search option: "ai:no" :)
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#24Can anyone give me an honest review of Kagi? When AI can summarize the web results and search for me, I have stopped using Google.
My honest review - Kagi is really, really great. Been using it almost a year now.
The search results are much more relevant, there are no ads or hallucinated BS AI summaries at the top, and you're not giving Google your data (and money) to further enshittify the world.
There are features I haven't tried yet so can't speak to them, but that's my very general take on the default kagi experience.
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#25The issues with subscriptions to streaming services are manifold (if you ignore the gargantuan waste of time that mindless TV-watching is):
- the UI is deliberately crap
- the library is deliberately incomplete
- accessing content is deliberately complicated
I had an experience recently where my phone provider bundles 20+ OTT services in a single plan within a single app that runs on your TV/phone/browser. The kicker: you can add stuff to a watch list, but the watch list is never exposed anywhere. While they want you to pay for stuff, they do not want you to be choosy about it.
YT has, to my mind, the best user interface of all the services I have tried.
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#26I only have a single service at any given time and keep rotating them over the year. Even bad services have one or two interesting series you can watch and then dump the service after a month. It's a lot cheaper than cable still...
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#27The only time I had a Netflix subscription was in 1999, for a couple of years, when they were mailing DVDs. Can't remember how much it costed. Never got any streaming subscriptions. I get annoyed with the Netflix button on my TV remote. It wastes a minute when press it by mistake.
It would take you all of five minutes to modify your remote so it can never be pressed again.
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#28Can anyone give me an honest review of Kagi? When AI can summarize the web results and search for me, I have stopped using Google.
I used Kagi for a few months, it was the best search experiemce I've seen, but in the end I decided I didn't value that enough. I use Ecosia now, it's fine- worse, but free.
I guess it's down to you how much you value web search. Kagi does have an AI tool as well, but I didn't use this and don't use AI search anyway, so can't comment on how it compares.
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#29It's weird. When Netflix came about, I was excited to dump all the bespoke pirating stuff that it replaced. I didn't mind paying for content, in fact, I was glad to. Fast forward a while, and now Netflix seems to be an undiscoverable mess of old and foreign content while charging twice as much. Each IP owner felt it necessary to make their own way worse clone, and still, after paying more than a hundred a month, ther…
The only way to make money from business is by bundling or unbundling.
Netflix made money by bundling, now others are making money by unbundling.
We'll get another netflix era in the next decade or so
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#30"just get the thing that will get you excited to get your hands on the keyboard"
love that