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They're trying to get outcompeted by nyaa. I refuse to pay money for that shit show of a streaming service
Is there a better service now that they also bought funimation?
Yes, it's called qbittorrent
Thats not a service, thats effort and time
not anymore lol, not these days. and regardless, id rather pay some effort and time to have access to literally everything i could need, rather than paying out of my paycheck for a service where i dont get to keep what I want if the service goes down or if they decide they just dont wanna carry the show that im watching anymore. if they have it in the first place. (but hey, you could always pay for multiple subscription services so you get to watch most of what you want to. just not keep, that's not your choice lol)
Yeah, setting up qBittorrent plus an RSS feed and VPN takes very little time and effort. Not much harder than signing up for a subscription service. Then maintaining it is as simple as updating your RSS feed with new anime you want to watch at the start of the season or when you find something you'd like to see.
Plex can be a bit of pain to setup to properly scrape anime, but there are some good guides out there. Jellyfin is easier, but setting it up for remote access is more difficult.
All in all, it's a bit more up front effort for an overall better experience than having to juggle several monthly subscriptions every anime season just to watch everything you want to watch.
If you want to support the creators, buy the blu-rays when they come out.
Some people (like me) are lazy and don't wlreally want to do it if it takes more than 5 minutes. I doubt I could even download a VPN program in that time lmao
Then pay for a streaming service or buy Blu-rays. You're paying either way, the methods above are just paying with your time
Learn to torrent and use nyaa.
Yes, there are multiple in FMHY megathread. After aniwave shut down I just hopped to the next one.
I've tried a few different services, aside from hidive the rest had a fairly poor experience.
So give hidive a shot if you're interested in a smooth experience.
Like some Russian book pirates (Litres) becoming honest businessmen, with that splitting the community and some libraries, like Aldebaran and Librusec, going bad too. I liked old Aldebaran, it had very convenient search.
That drama is also why FB2 format exists and FB3 does not, it was in the works. And also why e-readers like FBReader and CoolReader have kinda stagnated.