Lettuce eat lettuce
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Pay for things that respect you as a user, not this garbage.

@Boomkop3@reddthat.com
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51Y

I would like for Nebula to support a secure payment method. But for now this is what I’ll be using. I can still support my favoutite creators on patreon

ChaoticNeutralCzech
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21Y

I was considering Nebula – many of my subscriptions are there – but I need downloading (I am currently using NewPipe for that) and they have also had some anti-anti-Zionist tendencies.

@Boomkop3@reddthat.com
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41Y

Wait they don’t have downloading? Ain’t that a basic feature nowadays :/

If content is sent to your pc then there is a way to save it, regardless of how they try to hide that

@Boomkop3@reddthat.com
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11Y

Technically yes, but you might be interested in hdcp

ChaoticNeutralCzech
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31Y

They have no third-party clients either, which I assume is to prevent piracy (which will happen anyway). For me, it has the opposite effect – I would pay if they enabled downloads. Now I just freeload the non-exclusive content off YouTube.

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Because I’m bad at identifying sarcasm, this section exists in case “Ain’t that a basic feature nowadays :/” was meant sarcastically (it could be because of how much more popular streaming has become as opposed to downloading).

Well, I don’t really have mobile data (way too expensive in my country), so I pre-download videos to watch/listen to in public transit.

@Boomkop3@reddthat.com
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11Y

Ow, that just made me reconsider getting in the platform at all. thank you. Also, yes, sarcasm. No worries, I struggle with it too

El Barto
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11Y

A basic feature where exactly?

@Boomkop3@reddthat.com
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11Y

YouTube, deezer, Netflix, spotify, yt music, apple music, etc

El Barto
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11Y

YouTube allows you to download videos? And Netflix too?! Can you keep them if you stop your subscription?

@0x4E4F@infosec.pub
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21Y

I don’t even pay for those, lol 😂… cuz sooner or later, they turn into garbage anyway.

@Boomkop3@reddthat.com
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51Y

You can always stop paying or switch platforms. In my experience, it’s always good to switch every couple years for a lot of services online. It seems to be long term users that most often get milked

@0x4E4F@infosec.pub
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31Y

Yeah, but that just makes me feel like I’ve thrown away my money for nothing, like the platform didn’t get any better, it got worse… one of the many reasons why I pirate as well.

El Barto
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That’s a weird way to put it, and I am one who sails the high seas.

If your power company gets shittier, and you switch to a different one, will you be thinking “oh those years I’ve thrown away my money when the service was good”?

You don’t pay hoping that the service gets better. You pay for the quality of service that you want now.

@0x4E4F@infosec.pub
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If your power company gets shittier, and you switch to a different one, will you be thinking “oh those years I’ve thrown away my money when the service was good”?

I agree, you have a point there.

Maybe I’m just hoping that things should improve if you spend money on the service, not go worse. Maybe I just get dissapointed and regret ever paying for that service.

El Barto
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21Y

Got it. I understand your point now.

@Boomkop3@reddthat.com
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11Y

It’s a trade off. Unfortunately it seems that a lot of companies have figured out that making things more premium for fewer people means making the same amount of profit for less work

The way YouTube is handling it tho, is quite horrible

Suck cost fallacy. If you’re going to pay, switching is the best idea.

With that said, I’m going to pirate everything I can (and pay the person who ripped it instead) till I die

@0x4E4F@infosec.pub
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Well, to be honest, especially for warez, yes, it involves A LOT of knowledge. And that’s not easy to gain, there are no books on the subject and you can’t study RCE (I haven’t seen any courses that dive into the subject), so yeah, it’s pretty hard to actually gain some knowledge, and even harder since most of the tricks of the trade are shared between warez groups, and it’s hard to get into one.

So, yeah, I would throw money at that one or two people that actually did manage to crack a particular piece of software. Teams of engineers and programmers working on the software and a team of one or two guys managed to beat your copy protection… bravo 👏.

Of course. They deserve it more for their time than software engineers on a fixed salary anyway.

Plot twist: it’s the same software engineers who work to cracking their code. Perfect strategy to continued employment as well as earning money on the side from people like me. Of course, I appreciate their time nonetheless.

@0x4E4F@infosec.pub
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Really? I thought most of them did it for fun, as a challenge… but yeah, I guess you mught be right… there are some really hard copy protections and, to be honest, I have no idea how they managed to crack them, unless they have inside knowledge of the protection.

@SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml
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31Y

If I pay this kind of money, I expect an API to user-respecting third party apps.

That’s what they should do. Allow use of Reddit-style third party apps (before the API debacle) for premium users.

@Boomkop3@reddthat.com
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11Y

That would be awesome

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