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The issues with subscriptions to streaming services are manifold (if you ignore the gargantuan waste of time that mindless TV-watching is):

- the UI is deliberately crap

- the library is deliberately incomplete

- accessing content is deliberately complicated

I had an experience recently where my phone provider bundles 20+ OTT services in a single plan within a single app that runs on your TV/phone/browser. The kicker: you can add stuff to a watch list, but the watch list is never exposed anywhere. While they want you to pay for stuff, they do not want you to be choosy about it.

YT has, to my mind, the best user interface of all the services I have tried.





Jellyfin is quite good.



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