Mildly Infuriating

Yeah it's come full circle.

Cable exists. You pay for content but still get ads because greed.

Piracy gains traction. Technically illegal but usually unenforced. All content, no ads, kinda a pain, but clearly worth it to many.

Streaming gains traction. Cheaper alternative to cable. On demand. No ads. Many pirates diminish or quit pirating content. Clearly most people are willing to pay a reasonable amount for quality on demand content and no ads.

Streaming really picks up steam as the mainstream starts cutting cable for ad free on demand content for less. Again, people are happy paying for what they see as good value.

Greed creeps back in, content is fractured among many streaming services, making the cost basically a wash vs cable but still has advantages of on demand and no ads and the ability to share and juggle subscriptions.

Greed continues, ads creep back in, "premium" streaming offered for higher fees to eliminate introduced ads. Content continues to diminish. People start turning back to piracy for the same reasons as they did 15-20 years ago. Services also start cracking down on sub sharing.

Assuming greed continues, I predict we'll see these services attempt to squeeze even more money from the loyal subscribers they have left as they restructure their subscription models to contracts. No longer will there be any paying month to month. But rather you'll have to enter onto a 1 or 2 year contract to stream. I also predict that they'll very carefully curate their selections so that new seasons are available to current subscribers, then once the season is complete, they go away for a year before coming back, just to get people to maintain subscriptions instead of juggling contracts by year.

Do what you want, 'cause a pirate is free.

I know what you mean.

Browsing the Internet at work is a horrible experience. I'm actually shocked at the ad intrusion that I am usually saved from!

Same can be done with Pi-hole. Yes it isn’t ootb, but it is easy to do.

There are still challenges with doh and isp packet scanning. Even without clear text dns, your isp still knows where you go, if not from the lookups. They still inspect traffic and destinations and can make very detailed inferences, even without https inspection on DoH or other packets.

Pihole is fully for free. AdH seems to be the same for now, but it is a company running it, they want to make money. I would be a bit worried about this.

This also doesn’t stop devices from doing their own dns over https. Adguard home and pihole will try to block the DoH locators (canaries) but can’t actually stop a tv from connecting to a known ip if it wants to.

Don’t get me wrong. I highly recommend something, and adguard home is nice, but I’m not convinced by its the right long term solution nor does either solution provide the sum total.

I really want to be able to read this and know wtf it means. I have so much skill to up.

I've dedicated one single machine to self hosting and I never plan on increasing that. It's just one big beefy hunk that has a shitty CPU and lots of RAM and HDD space.

Sonarr/Radarr/qBit/Plex is all that's needed. I pay $5/mo ($15/3mo) for AirVPN and that's all.

Only one room?

Snag you a micropc from Amazon for like $150 and an external HDD and you'll be golden. Selfhosting can be as small as you want. Hell sometimes I wish I had a tiny PC and a couple of 18tb externals.

Good luck op