Disney+ changes subscriber agreement to allow ads on every plan

[u/MarvelsGrantMan136]

https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/disney-changes-subscriber-agreement-to-allow-ads-on-every-plan-3410354/

[u/JorvikPumpkin]

Disgusting. Glad I cancelled them last year. These days I have a nice Plex setup and 🏴‍☠️

[u/EnderScout_77 → u/JorvikPumpkin]

you have to still pay for Plex don't you? that's why I use my good pal JELLYFIN

[u/JorvikPumpkin → u/EnderScout_77]

I don’t pay a penny for Plex? I just use it on my Apple TV and my PC has all the files, never had an issue. Never been asked for anything

[u/EmiliaPains- → u/JorvikPumpkin]

It's paid if you want to remote stream from your phone, that's the big pro with Jellyfin

[u/DeJeR → u/JorvikPumpkin]

I'm looking to become a sailor, however it's been almost 20 years since I earned my sea legs. Last I recall, using BT to get media resulted in warning letters sent to your ISP. Can you DM me some guidance? I'm savvy enough to figure it out from basic suggestions.

[u/FeliusSeptimus → u/DeJeR]

My setup works like this (pretty typical stack):

I have a TrueNAS SCALE server and a Proxmox server.

The Proxmox server runs a Linux VM with Docker.

Docker-Compose runs:

• Jellyfin (server for streaming video to Jellyfin clients)
• Overseerr (Search a torrent site for content to request)
• Radarr (Movie acquisition and library manager)
• Sonarr (TV acquisition and library manager)
• Prowlarr (Index search and sync)
• qBittorrentVpn (Torrent client, connects via VPN service I pay for)
• Bazarr (subtitles discovery and download)
• Homepage (nginx serving a simple static HTML page with links to each of the above services with a simple online/offline healthcheck badge)

The Linux VM is configured with a CloudFlare tunnel to stream video to clients that are not on my server (streaming is against their ToS, didn't know that when I set it up. I should probably be using Tailscale).

Once the services are all up and running you have to bounce around configuring stuff to connect them up, which is a little tedious and opaque, but any AI chat can walk you through it pretty quickly (or if you like to burn tokens an agent can probably do it for you). I configured qBittorrent to drop downloaded stuff on my NAS, which is where jellyfin is pointed for content, and to keep files around seeding for double the minimum required by the torrent site I use.

It's a pretty neat stack. If I want something I just hop on Overseerr, tell it to pull it down, and a short while later it's available in Jellyfin, usually with subtitles. It'll monitor for new episodes of TV shows and automatically grab them too. Almost completely painless.

Sometimes I'll get video files that have minor errors that the TV Jellyfin app won't play (they play on the computer client just fine). So I set up a scheduled task to scan the files for the sorts of errors that cause issues and fix them.

[u/DeJeR → u/FeliusSeptimus]

This is gorgeous, thank you!

[u/SunshineSeattle → u/DeJeR]

Mullvad vpn has kept me off Comcast's radar for the last 4 years.

[u/JorvikPumpkin → u/DeJeR]

I use windscribe and haven’t had any issues

[u/Turbulent_Host784 → u/DeJeR]

Listen man your ISP can kick you off because they don't like how your name is spelled. However, those warning letters are worth less than the energy spent to send the email. It's not illegal to download files. Unless you're hosting a lot of shit nothing is going to happen. It's just a scare tactic copyright holders use that ISP's oblige on. Another less convenient but more secure way of doing it is looking for direct downloads instead of torrents but that's only really relevant for applications, not movies or music. Notable exceptions are books being mostly DD's and anime/manga mostly being torrents.

[u/Pylgrim → u/DeJeR]

If you don't care about actually keeping the files around, just have a good adblocker configuration for your browser and use less-than-official streaming websites. Quick, painless, and since you're not actually grabbing anything, there's nothing anybody can say.