Just pirate or I guess spoof your user agent, but just pirate instead: Don't give Amazon money.
this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2023
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or I guess spoof your user agent
That won't help. The issue is Widevine DRM protection level. It's the same issue everywhere.
Piracy it is! The system fails again!
Nothing like being pushed into piracy by anti piracy measures, gj corporations
As is tradition.
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Jellyfin streams all my shit at whatever resolution I went out of my way to download.
whatever resolution I went out of my way to download.
Addon Radarr, Sonarr, and Ombi and you won't even have to do that.
Users make requests via Ombi, those get sent to Radarr/Sonarr to search for and download. Most stuff is ready to watch ~15min after requesting, with no interaction from the servers admin needed. (optionally, requests can require approval before downloading, that's disabled for the users I trust)
I need to get around to setting up the arr stack but I've been manually downloading torrents for over a decade now I just forget there are better solutions
I did the manual way for years as well.
One of the issues these solve is the shear capacity to look through thousands of results from dozens of indexers all at once to choose the best match, in the sense of actually being what you wanted to watch, being in the quality you were looking for, and being readily available to download (has many seeds/is available on usenet, was recently uploaded, etc). As humans, we can only process so much before we just say 'fuck it' and pick something.
The other is keeping your library(s) up to date. Often when I searched for something, maybe recently released, maybe older but just uncommon; I can't find a copy at all, the ones I do find aren't downloading (no seeds), or maybe they're just in lower quality than I'd have liked.
The arr stack will monitor each piece of media in your library that you tell them too; they will then ingest the rss feeds from your indexers, as well as perform occasional searches directly, looking for new uploads that match media you are looking for. If you don't already have a copy, or the newly found one is better than what you already have, it'll automatically download it and replace the older copy if it does indeed turn out to be better once acquired and verified.
This is fantastic for monitoring shows that are actively airing new episodes, or adding movies/shows that haven't actually released yet, to be grabbed automatically once available. You can also choose whether it allows cam-rips/telesyncs or if it should wait for a digital release (ie wait till its out of theaters). There's quite a lot of control over quality settings and what should/should not be accepted. (there's also recycling bin settings for keeping things they delete until you manually permanently delete them)
Genuinely a life changing experience. Ombi and its request interface is just a cherry on top :)
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YouTube purchases also don't work beyond 480p on any desktop except for Mac Safari. These companies are fucking insane.
And if you purchased movies from Sony instead, they will just remove them all from your account.
Guys, relax. Cancel your amazon and Netflix subscription and download streamio and use it with torrentio or real-debrid add-in.
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Louis Rossman has done a couple videos about this and I tend to agree - Paying customers get a worse experience.
You use the official apps and real accounts and you are still subject to artificial bandwidth restrictions. You use the official YouTube app on your smart TV and you get 10+ midroll ads at unnatural places during a 12 minute video. You "own" purchased content in one platform and it can still be taken away from you or made inaccessible when a service gets collapsed into another platform or rebranded etc. I'm not going to re-buy the same fucking movie I already owned on one streaming platform and have already owned on 2 different formats of physical release.
Curating your own digital copies, regardless of how you obtain them, is the only way to guarantee quality and availability anymore.
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It doesn't matter how much DRM you put into the service. someone can just spin up a Virtual Machine and install chrome, windows in it and then record the stream from the host system.
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Seems like there is no legitimate way for you to get that content. I guess youre forced to be a pirate!
That's the case for pretty much all systems that use widevine - you can blame google for it, as they are the one that built the widevine DRM that all streaming services use
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Yo ho ho, a pirate’s life for me.
Probably some DRM shit. This basically reads like "don't use the software specified here if you want to rip it, because we can only prevent it on these"
This is why even though I pay for prime, I pirate everything. It's amusing to pay for a service that your experience is better pirating than using the service you pay for.
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You have no idea how insane i went trying to figure out why clarkson farm was playing at extremely low quality, pixelated 320p on my PC before I realized Amazon just hated Linux.
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Maybe if you fake your user agent it would think you're on Windows.
Did you mark this as NSFW because Amazon fucks those running Linux?
It's not even really better on Windows. (Nearly) all streaming services restrict resolution to 720p if you watch on a PC, mobile phone or tablet. With the exception of Netflix if you watch with Microsoft Edge or Chrome, I believe.
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Netflix limits you to 720p even on windows, unless you are using Edge: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742 (expand HTML5 browsers and scroll down).
This limitation doesn't apply to all content - it's the worst case scenario if copyright holder really put their foot down.
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I gave up on prime video long ago for this bullshit, they're also not the only streaming to serve crap quality on linux.
We really get much better content, quality, experience, and for a cheaper price just by navigating high seas these days.
And yet their servers are using Linux to host a subpar experience for Linux clients.
Hey Amazon, use Windows and MacOS servers (lolz) instead for HD/UHD stream hosting!
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idk why but i thought this would be amazon sending you a picture of goatse
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Time to sail the high seas!
Piracy is your friend
And this kind of shenanigans are why I don't use any kind of paid streaming service... This and the crap that Sony pulled on buyers of content. Fuck 'em.
Just like Netflix!
Fuck em all i ain't paying shit
I feel weird every time seeing such news - they make those rules as if they hold me by the balls, only I haven't ever used Netflix, and why would they go in the direction opposite of attracting me?
Repeat after me OP: Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
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Easy fix for that, just spoof your browser fingerprint + use anti DPI
and if you still feel paranoid, install GhostNET & activate it
just spoof your browser fingerprint
That won't help if your platform or browser doesn't support Widevine. It's possible Amazon only support the Widevine implementation on Windows and MacOS, and no amount of browser spoofing is going to help you if your browser just doesn't have the right closed-source binary DRM blob.
Yup. The better solution is to vote with your wallet and sail the high seas 🏴☠️
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