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Stremio is a parasite. They are "legal" because the app itself doesn't contain anything illegal, you have to add the plugins on the side. It is just awful because it just leeches from torrents and don't seed anything.
We're just self hosting our stuff and using Jellyseer, it's convenient and we can just forget stuff seeding as long as we can
Shouldn’t the complaint be about real debrid then? People just want convenience, buying a bunch of hard drives setting up jellyfin getting a vpn waiting for things to download when you want to watch something is annoying. Paying 35 dollars for a year of hassle free easy to setup high quality streaming is an amazing deal to most.
People that really want convenience just pay for streaming services. Stremio has a shitty transferrate and even with 1GB internet you aren't able to watch anything 4k, for example.
I can't relate with the complait about setting up jellyfin/VPN, that's something you only need to do once. Theorically Stremio would also need a VPN because it is getting it from a torrent, no? Just get stuff you need in advance and you won't have to wait and will get to watch something HQ if you have the setup to do so.
I also don't know/care about debrid so I can't comment on it. Isn't it direct download?
Streaming services stopped being convenient a couple of years ago. Introduction of ads, content strewn all over the place, shitty UI, etc.
I went with Stremio because it has everything in one place. Seeding is not an option because Germany is a shit country for seeding Torrents.
Real Debrid does the torrenting while the end user downloads the cached content. I'm not sure if they seed or not however.
I don't disagree with you, but we all forget that the medium user isn't tech savvy like all of us and it is the main reason they get predated upon by big tech.