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>>ksec+(OP)
I know it's morally dubious, but I'm completely back in pirateland because of all the changes/price hikes/partitioning in the streaming space. My interests make it so I only watch 1-2 shows per platform so I'd be approaching ~100$/month.

And even if I was swimming in money, it's often easier to just download the shows I want and watch them on Plex/Jellyfin than trying to navigate the (often ad-riddled) interfaces of the various platforms and finding where the content I want is.

One example is Rick and Morty, it's made by Adult Swim, but they don't have a streaming service in Canada. It seems to be on Primevideo but under a different system than their regular content. The other way to watch it is to buy it from my cable provider (I don't have cable). So to watch a 20-minutes animated show I'd have to take a +40$ subscription.

>>belval+Qg
+1 - Another pirate user here. I have a Prime & NetFlix account but I purposefully never use it and still prefer to download pirated copies of their show (mainly for better video quality, convenience of offline viewing in any device and most importantly protecting my privacy). I have no doubt that there is no stopping advertisement on streaming platform and it will equal the level on television once it becomes normalised, and will be even worse because it will BE accompanied with more datamining of our personal data and tracking. Many smart TVs are already using the built-in webcam and microphone to determine how you watch ads, and all this intrusive method of monitoring is only going to get worse.