Ad-free streaming is a luxury now
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It always was a luxury. It's just exhorbitantly expensive now with more strict rules.
Imagine streaming in 2026.
I'm always streaming stuff I want to watch
https://rentry.org/megathread-movies-and-tv#streaming-sites
I hadn't pirated anything in like a decade up until I wanted to binge a few shows this past winter and discovered I would need to subscribe to 3 different services to do it.
And if you don't have ads, you'll probably have a horrendously low resolution. In Australia, Stan charges $12 a month for 540p on its lowest tier plan.