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Does anybody have the impression that Stremio may be a honeypot of some sort?

Thay are allegedly a legal service where some nefarious actors provide torrenting plugins etc. I tried to find out how they were financed, and found northing but a site purportedly selling "Web3" advertising, and filled with technobabble nonsense. No address, no way to purchase their services no GDPR notice or anything...

All I can find regarding their safety are "It's legit, nothing has happened to me so far" comments in reddit and other boards.

They have your email, they host the service, they can track all you do...

Seems kind of fishy.

Ive tried it, ironically, to watch stuff that I pay for, I have Netflix, prime video, Disney... But Stremio gives me much higher resolutions.

Even though I live in a country where sailing the high seas is not persecuted, as long as you are the end-user and you derive no profit, I'm going to delete my account (made with an email address I have for bullshit stuff ), make a new one with a truly disposable email and get a VPN.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

No not a honey pot. That's now how honey pots work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure if it's a honeypot, but I am sure it's never worked well for me and just caused more headaches.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I use it with real debrid and a vpn. I have it on a few android TV devices. I need the ease of use for my luddite wife and 5 year old.

I never considered the re-seeding issue until now. Do the debrid servers not re-seed?

I'm working on a homelab and will eventually try to set up jellyfin, but this is a work in progress.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Same, just need to find the time and motivation. I have all of the equipment I need.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I'm in over my head a little bit. I've got an old desktop converted to a server running proxmox. But I can't ssh into it or access the web interface. It's obnoxious.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I'm always incredibly skeptical of these super easy "all in one" solutions. Would rather do the work myself just to make sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

With PopcornTime it was the same thing, but it got too popular

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I did the work first, then filled up my disks and moved to Stremio, no regrets, and yeah both solutions offer a better experience than Netflix, Prime Video, MAX, Disney+ and Star+ (which are the platforms I am have/once had.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Stremio is a parasite. They are "legal" because the app itself doesn't contain anything illegal, you have to add the plugins on the side. It is just awful because it just leeches from torrents and don't seed anything.

We're just self hosting our stuff and using Jellyseer, it's convenient and we can just forget stuff seeding as long as we can

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Shouldn’t the complaint be about real debrid then? People just want convenience, buying a bunch of hard drives setting up jellyfin getting a vpn waiting for things to download when you want to watch something is annoying. Paying 35 dollars for a year of hassle free easy to setup high quality streaming is an amazing deal to most.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

People that really want convenience just pay for streaming services. Stremio has a shitty transferrate and even with 1GB internet you aren't able to watch anything 4k, for example.

I can't relate with the complait about setting up jellyfin/VPN, that's something you only need to do once. Theorically Stremio would also need a VPN because it is getting it from a torrent, no? Just get stuff you need in advance and you won't have to wait and will get to watch something HQ if you have the setup to do so.

I also don't know/care about debrid so I can't comment on it. Isn't it direct download?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

People that really want convenience just pay for streaming services.

Streaming services stopped being convenient a couple of years ago. Introduction of ads, content strewn all over the place, shitty UI, etc.

I went with Stremio because it has everything in one place. Seeding is not an option because Germany is a shit country for seeding Torrents.

Real Debrid does the torrenting while the end user downloads the cached content. I'm not sure if they seed or not however.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I don't disagree with you, but we all forget that the medium user isn't tech savvy like all of us and it is the main reason they get predated upon by big tech.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So most people use Stremio with debrid, debrid caches torrents for you (without seeding) on their servers. With that you can stream blu ray remuxes (80 - 100 gb files) without downloading them and no vpn is required since it’s https encrypted from their servers. It turns into a combination of all the streaming services

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Well glory to the private trackers, I guess. You need to have people seeding for torrents to work. I really believe this might kill public trackers if it gets too popular.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Something can be shady and not a honeypot. It's much more common. Its like people forgot this and now anytime anyone feels something is sus this type of post appears.

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