• KravenTheHunter@lemmy.browntown.dev
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    11 months ago

    Not going to lie, i think most consumers will take this lying down and that’s what Sony is betting on. The amount that actually turn to piracy is so small, and the price hike easily makes up for the customers they’d lose. I’d say most people on Lemmy know how to pirate (if not are pirating already) so it’s a bit of an echo chamber here where we assume everybody is just going to pirate so as to stop lining Sony’s pockets.

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      11 months ago

      In my experience the main issue with piracy is the ads.

      Nothing better than trying to watch a show with my kid then having an ad pop-up with a girl fucking herself

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        11 months ago

        I’ve been pirating for years and never encountered an ad beyond subtitle ads. Is this anime specific or something?

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          11 months ago

          Nah the anime sites I use either don’t have ads or have normal ads.

          It’s the movie sites I use that have constant explicit pop-ups

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          11 months ago

          I’ve been meaning to look into adblockers but I really only use these sites for shit that’s not on streaming services so I don’t really think about it until it arises

          • The Octonaut@mander.xyz
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            11 months ago

            It’s 2024 man, tormenting a movie takes about 10 minutes and then you neither have to worry about ads nor connectivity for the rest of the movie

          • trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com
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            11 months ago

            Firefox + ublock origin would be your best scenario for privacy and security. Privacy because all these ads track your page loads and attempt to generate a unique id for your browser based on your loading time of certain pixels, and security because nearly half of all ads (and more than half of all links on google search and nearly all ads on google search) are viral loads just waiting for an accidental click.