I’d recommend a move to torbox, trying it out now and honestly like it more than RD.
Thanks RD for helping me find a better service
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2024
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Been using traditional methods to get my isos and store them locally, and on arrs/Plex for well over a decade.
Honestly the debris stuff never ever interested me, unless the data is in your control locally the rug pull is always on the horizon.
I do wish we could make it easier for non-technical folk, not everyone is wrong in the head like I am to be happy enough building and maintaining a NAS and the software stack required.
Unfortunately not everyone has access to cheap storage so for us a few bucks a month is more cost effective than having to upgrade expensive storage regularly. 😓
Bummer, I renewed my subscription for 6 months just two days ago.
I guess this'll finally be an excuse for me to setup Jellyfin and the arr-stack. I really don't mind too much (honestly I'd be fine just downloading torrents manually for whatever I want to watch) but my roommates really appreciated how easy to use Stremio is.
Me too, last Friday
You should probably try to get your money back via chargeback. This service is basically useless at this point, so might as well get money back better spent on something else if you still can. Worst they do is ban you from the service, a service they have already made not worth it anymore.
CC: @Evkob@lemmy.ca
Eh, I won't die over 20$, it's due to something out of their control that anyone could have seen coming, and I've been quite the satisfied customer since I've been using Real-Debrid. I wouldn't judge anyone for doing a chargeback, but I personally don't really feel the urge to do so.
That is true, $20 isn't much in this day and age. It's not something you're going to die over or be in trouble without. I would still do it mainly out of principle since I'd rather not help them along with one more payment like that. Of course I haven't ever signed up for them, and I obviously never intend to now.
Don't you have to pay for arr services?
A VPN is the only bit you'd pay for, alongside the inevitable mass of HDDs to store everything on once you get addicted to just keeping everything forever in your own personal Netflix.
Fuckin hell don't I know it. Going on 2 HDDs and 1 SSD
They're not services per se, but are a stack of software that you can kinda "clump" together for the lack of a better word.
For instance I started using qbittorrent client recently instead of Transmission that I was using before as my torrent client because I can't find a way for Transmission to not download malware, and you can also do the very same with the indexer clients such as Jackett or Prowlarr which then talk to other software such as Radarr/Sonarr via API keys and is usually where most get caught out.
Read the docs, get thoroughly confused, and probably do it in docker too as everyone says if your hardware is sufficient.
No, they directly download the files via torrents on your pc
Glad I never subscribed to it.
Me too, I kind of always saw this coming and it really pissed me off when elitist pirates would try and bully people into buying it. Now I can and will rub their faces in it.
Just in time for Usenet Black Friday sales :)
And what country are they located, pray tell?
What is the USTR blacklist? how do we preserve this data before its lost?
It looks like in terms of torrent sites
- 1337x
- rutracker
- the pirate bay
- torrentgalaxy (replaced RARBG)
- yts
Are all on the list. seems like torrentio is gonna be a big victim of this.
More info here
USTR blacklist
Anna's Archive, Libgen, etc are all on here. this is just 2023
Apologies for being clueless but how does streamio/torrentio get affected by this?
Completely fucked if you use realdebrid as endpoint.
They completely disabled their api endpoints, that means stremio can’t access the realdebrid servers
Which unfortunately has been the preferred way of doing it for a while. Hopefully people will learn and stop relying on it so much.
I mean you can just swap to another provider.
Personally I use a *arr setup and just used RD as download, I’ll just swap to a different provider
Damn.
I am so glad I didn’t renew my subscription in September sheesh
What are peoples preferred alternatives to use with stemio?
As others in this thread I literally just paid for 6 months on Realdebrid Woop!
Do a chargeback, get your money back for it, assuming you can and it hasn't been too long. What are they gonna do? Ban you? Ha that's rich their service is about to become darn near worthless, that's an empty threat that doesn't have any teeth. Download your existing files and get your money back from them.
AllDebrid or Premiumize are both popular alternatives. AD is considerably cheaper, even with Premiumize's Black Friday sale in right now. However, Premiumize allows multiple connections, so if you can split the cost with someone, it becomes the cheaper option.
I would hold off on switching to AllDebrid for a bit, because they are also based in France and may be hit with a similar order.
there is also torbox and debrid-link fr
Fuck I just bought 6 months zzzz
As I've said in other comments you can easily get your money back, probably would be worth it since it's not like RD will be of much use once they start pulling cached files.
Same, lol
Is this gonna hurt arr stack?
No
Edit: why the down votes? It has absolutely no impact on the arr-stack, I just answered their question...
I don't know, maybe people thought it was a lazy answer? People on Lemmy can be insanely unreasonable sometimes with how they vote content.
Maybe you're right, but a simple question should get a simple answer IMO. I can't really see what else is needed to fully answer their question, further explanation is likely to just confuse them with unnecessary details.
I agree that simple questions can have simple answers. I was simply trying to offer an explanation as to why other people might downvote comments like this. But it's likely they aren't being reasonable.