A new survey shows streaming is becoming increasingly popular for watching live sports.

Networks, after splitting every league and cup into tiny micropackages that cost $9.99 per month each: How could the Millenials do this to us? After everything we gave them!*
* They had not, in fact, given them much of anything

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I gave up traditional TV for ad-free streaming back in 2009 and have never looked back.

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Ad-free streaming?

Yes.

@sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al
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How have you achieved that?

Yes

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Even that’s not ad-free

Kevin
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Where are you seeing ads in pirated content?

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Before matches. Half-time. After matches. With some streams they’ll make the match small to advertise shit. Especially the South African streams.

Kevin
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That’s crazy, it sounds like a whole business! I guess there are probably more costs and risks associated with live streaming that warrant the income stream, compared to uploading a movie to some torrent tracker.

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It’s just that someone at some point is just casting their TV screen/stream. Some of the more professional ones will cut away from the adverts and show filler, but for the most part, they don’t have time for that during live events.

Kevin
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Oh I see, so these are the same ads you’d see on the official broadcast too?

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Yeah

Streaming has ads nowadays my dude, at least in the UK, unless you’re paying for a more expensive package.

uBlock Origin blocks all ads from the streaming sites I use. YouTube, Peacock, Paramount+ and Hulu. Some movies and sports I can easily pirate with no ads.

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Even when I yo-ho-ho I see ads. I was genuinely curious about what this person was on about but they don’t actually seem interested in having a discussion or imparting knowledge 😔

See my reply above.

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Thanks for sharing. Was like pulling a tooth but we got there in the end.

I grew up loving and watching basketball. I can’t afford $80 to stream not even all of the sports.

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