Streaming competitor Disney+ is looking to boost revenue with live sports tier

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    Like Reddit, I ditched Netflix as well. Loyalties’ strength isn’t what it used to be. Got a VPN, now I watch whatever I want. Thanks greedy companies, for helping me wise up.

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        Seconding Mullvad VPN. Barebones in terms of features and GUI, but it’s the only VPN I actually trust for privacy. No emails or passwords needed to sign up, and you can pay in Monero

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      How does a VPN help you steam sans Netflix? You’re using other streaming services and get access to more content from other countries?

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        I think they’re referring to sites like 123movies and the like, which are usually blocked by most ISPs

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            Could be a US thing. There are certain sites for ripping youtube videos (etc) that aren’t accessible from here due to piracy laws and you have to VPN into Asia etc to have access.

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                One example (for me anyway) is inserting “pp” into any youtube video address before the .com so it’s “youtubepp.com/etc”, and opens the youtube link in another service to download it by a few different options. I get a no-access notice if I go there connected to a US vpn server, or with no vpn, but if I switch to a non-US server, it works without a problem.

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        The user is advocating for piracy. Just so everybody’s clear on how they replaced their Netflix subscription with a VPN.

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          Piracy? I didn’t see any talk of ships or swords or parrots or peg-legs. I think he’s just talking about downloading and probably copyright infringement, but nothing a pirate would do.