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YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

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Re: YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

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Post by mrtksn »

INTPenis wrote: post #7

In my circle, piracy is making a comeback. We're tired of having to hunt down streaming services, and be extorted for hundreds of euro a month, just to see ads for their own programs. Streaming was fun for a while, but as always these greedy execs are ruining it.

We used to share passwords but as the streaming services begin the crackdown started cancelling the services and just use pirated movie watching sites.

Funny enough, our TCL Smart TV has an UI that shows trending movies etc. and when you click on these it just does a web search with the relevant words to find pirate websites. The browser is also able to detect video streams and asks you if you want to just play the video in the video player. The overall experience is not too far away from the legal streaming platforms.

Most new films are a trash anyway, so I don't think I feel moral dilemma either. In fact, if the streaming services go away this will be a net win for the movie industry.

Re: YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

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Post by leptons »

giobox wrote: post #64
benbristow wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SmartTube on Android TV. Brilliant, makes YouTube usable, Sponsorblock baked in.

Sponsor block is much less useful now Premium subscriptions have the "skip commonly skipped section" feature, which is always the sponsored content. With the addition of this, you can avoid ads and sponsors well enough now on Premium for me. I was pleasantly surprised YouTube came out with a first party tool to skip sponcon. > https://dataconomy.com/2025/07/30/youtubes-ai-powered-jump-a...

Sponsorblock is only one small part of the great features of Smarttube. Completely removing all "shorts" is the reason I switched to it. And the UI is very customizable, where the Youtube app is not customizable at all. Smarttube has unlocked so much potential that the Youtube app just doesn;t offer.

Re: YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

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Post by twelvedogs »

pentagrama wrote: post #135
estimator7292 wrote: post #127

I just don't really care for TV that much, but my husband was on at least three streaming services. I would occasionally manually pirate shows and movies when he asked, but a while back I hooked up radarr to my jellyfin server. Now he's canceled all our streaming services and gone full pirate. Our entire tv and movie budget is now condensed into a single subscription: the VPN behind my torrent box. And also all the n…

Can you share a good resource on how to set up Radarr with Jellyfin? I tried but couldn’t get it to work. I just want to have it running on my PC (not a dedicated server), my computer is connected to my TV via HDMI and that’s all I need. Right now, for pirated content, I use the Stremio app for Windows [1] with the Torrentio [2] and PirateBay+ [3] addons. It’s a “sandboxed,” relatively safe way to pirate. Stremio its…

dunno man, if you're struggling that much probably just download movies of the pirate bay and use vlc to play them. radarr isn't that massive of an upgrade

i use it but i have a server if i had to run it locally i'd probably just skip it

Re: YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

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Post by justinclift »

CaptainOfCoit wrote: post #51
TechSquidTV wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I pirated for many years until Netflix had everything when I was in high school. Roughly around the time I got a job I stopped pirating games and bought everything on Steam. There is still some annoyance with other launchers besides Steam but, I endure. Its been a long time now but probably around when South Park left Netflix, I started pirating again. Now I have a massive Plex server and home lab dedicated to piracy…

> probably around when South Park left Netflix, I started pirating again Unrelated, but fun example as South Park is probably the only show on TV that also let people watch the entire show (-latest seasons it seems) for free online! https://www.southparkstudios.com/seasons/south-park Been like that (in many places) for many many years at this point too :)

> let people watch the entire show

Isn't that only for people in the US?

Re: YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

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Post by leptons »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #54
benbristow wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SmartTube on Android TV. Brilliant, makes YouTube usable, Sponsorblock baked in.

I don't understand why you wouldn't just get yt premium. You get the same features and it pays out well. YouTube premium views are like gold nuggets for creators.

I use Smarttube and I pay for Youtube premium, I guess I am an edge case. The Youtube app has nowhere near the customizable features Smarttube has. And I can completely block all "shorts" using Smarttube. I pay for Youtube premium because I also often use Youtube in a web browser, so no ads there is still helpful.

Re: YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

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Post by bestouff »

lm28469 wrote: post #169

My youtube experience: - open video - 2 unskippable ads - click somewhere in the video to skip the creator's sponsor section (more ads) - 2 more unskippable ads - video plays, the original audio was automagically replaced by a dogshit 1995 tier "ai" dub - it's not the part I wanted to see, click somewhere else - 2 more unskippable ads At that point I spent 5 minutes watching ads and forgot why I came here...

Use the Force .. err use Newpipe

Re: YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

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Post by tmtvl »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #17
INTPenis wrote: post #7

In my circle, piracy is making a comeback. We're tired of having to hunt down streaming services, and be extorted for hundreds of euro a month, just to see ads for their own programs. Streaming was fun for a while, but as always these greedy execs are ruining it.

Just let me buy an MP4 legally for $5 and I will buy every movie.

I'd buy 720p MP4s for $20, though my tastes in passive visual entertainment are rather niche.

Re: YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

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Post by netsharc »

estimator7292 wrote: post #128
CaptainOfCoit wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Even if you subscribed to them all you'd still not have everything And even if you could get all the video itself, it's not guaranteed you'd get the right video+audio+subtitles combination that you want, as everything seems to be negotiated separately. So while one service could offer the right audio and the right video but not the subtitles you want, another service could have the right video and the right subtitl…

Man, jellyfin is shockingly absolutely killer for subtitles. I don't remember if it's a plugin or built in, but there's a subtitle search option that cross-references your video's filename into some database that usually gives you a workable set of subs. Plus it respects your options to default subs on or off, in a language you choose, in a style you like to see. I don't think any streaming services do it this well h…

"Some database", could it be opensubtitles.org ? Sigh, if I were them I'd be annoyed that my work is hidden away behind the words "some database".

Re: YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

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Post by netdevphoenix »

benbristow wrote: post #18
INTPenis wrote: post #7

In my circle, piracy is making a comeback. We're tired of having to hunt down streaming services, and be extorted for hundreds of euro a month, just to see ads for their own programs. Streaming was fun for a while, but as always these greedy execs are ruining it.

Too many services nowadays. Was fine when it was just Netflix, had mostly everything, no ads, full quality. Nowadays Netflix price has gone up, additional plans for 4K/no-ads, anti-account sharing and less content as content now has gone to Amazon/Disney+/Hulu/Discovery+/Paramount+/Peacock/HBO etc. etc. Even if you subscribed to them all you'd still not have everything. Sailing the seas, you get everything for free o…

> Was fine when it was just Netflix, had mostly everything

This was problematic too. Centralisation is never good in the long-term. Surely, we would have learned that from traditional media, AWS outages or autocratic structures. Humanity as so much to learn still

Re: YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started

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Post by 0dayz »

Highly ironic for me this is the case as I've embraced (state) TV instead of YouTube.

Mainly because it's gotten so awful in the last few years:

- aggressive ads for everything

- content creators has gotten worse over time (doing abhorrent things, fermenting cult like audiences)

- ragebait/political content is so damn popular and common it sneaks into recommendations despite me not watching it

- Ai is everywhere

- general fatigue with how predictable the content is even with interesting topics

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