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What the Fuck Amazon?! (lemmings.world)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Louis Rossman has done a couple videos about this and I tend to agree - Paying customers get a worse experience.

You use the official apps and real accounts and you are still subject to artificial bandwidth restrictions. You use the official YouTube app on your smart TV and you get 10+ midroll ads at unnatural places during a 12 minute video. You "own" purchased content in one platform and it can still be taken away from you or made inaccessible when a service gets collapsed into another platform or rebranded etc. I'm not going to re-buy the same fucking movie I already owned on one streaming platform and have already owned on 2 different formats of physical release.

Curating your own digital copies, regardless of how you obtain them, is the only way to guarantee quality and availability anymore.