Google voice assistant cannot be turned off. How else are they supposed to listen to your conversations and create personalized ads just for your convenience?

What’s the R word?

You are welcome mate! Have fun!

I can only suggest jellyfin. It is lightweight and can do in-house and outside streaming as well.

You can start here.

Yeah, but will it blend?

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IMHO, it’s not only stupid but completely unnecessary as well.

Meanwhile the rest of the world: China is flagged as dangerous and data hoarder.

I truly appreciate this idea. However, consumerism fucked society and people are preferring to live for their belongings rather the other way around.

Also, an average person will not give up comfort and step outside their bubbles.

Sad.

Yes, that describs it accurately.

Corps screwing over its users should not be news anymore but a norm.

Why am I not surprised?

I don’t think you have to sign up. Also afraid to share link.

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The piratebay is still on and very user friendly

Have a try with this

From here you can look for other alternatives online

Whit this the company might risk the chance to loose some of their biggest investors, who are keeping the company alive.

The implementation of such change would take years to slowly modify and chisel as much money-loosing-holes as possible.

Plus there would be board meetings where the company have to come up with a short term plan to Convince every money oriented board member that the new corporate contract will shovel money to the business. It is not easy, trust me.

They can’t afford to loose money first to gain money years later.

Unfortunately they are pushed by the investors to focus on generating profit for them.

If I would give money to someone to make more money. I would expect more and more not less or a fix amount.

I guess that is the fault of not being aware of alternatives, or brand royalty.

Average Users just want to be comfortable with watch they already have and don’t want to hassle to learn new habits.

Disney simply chose to skip the voting and went straight to forbid password sharing. They are hoping for gaining new customers like Netflix .

Priority for corporation will always be profit maximization. Users are secondary.