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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
Meh, maintaining the fully automated TV show downloader I used to use was a pain in the butt and it was always having some issue or another. I'll gladly pay the $100 or w/e per month to avoid it, and I haven't had a problem like yours where something I wanted to watch wasn't available.

As I get older, I find myself more willing than before to trade cash for time, and this is exactly one of those scenarios.

Rick and Morty came close, but Youtube TV taped the episodes for me so I watch them there.

>>matai_+vm
What were you using? Nzb / sonarr / radarr / Plex is quite an amazing setup. Very low maint.

>>Justin+lp
I assume you run these behind a VPN? Or is traffic obfuscation part of these packages?

>>colord+rr
Plex/Sonarr etc don't handle the actual downloading part, so they don't need to be behind a VPN. They simply look up the show metadata from public databases and find downloads available from indexes you have registered, passing on the download that best fits your criteria to whatever download client you have configured (so the download client is the only part that needs to be behind a VPN).