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Re:The biggest competitor to your digital service? The Mars Bar by dcolkitt on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @09:38AM (#25442999)
We subscribe to all of those things. Netflix as the primary streaming service. Disney+ because the kids love Frozen. Youtube so the kids don't get blasted by ads on their iPads. Spotify because it's the only real music streaming option. And Amazon Prime, not for entertainment but 2-day shipping and free grocery delivery.

You're talking about $52 a month. For easily 20+ hours of entertainment (or time savings in terms of Amazon Prime). In terms of quality of life, it's much more impactful than say upgrading from a Subaru to a Mercedes. Despite costing an order of magnitude less.

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Re:The biggest competitor to your digital service? The Mars Bar by st1x7 on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @09:56AM (#25443222)
Yes, I think you're right. Having all of them doesn't feel redundant when we're talking about a whole family and the cost isn't that high.
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Re:The biggest competitor to your digital service? The Mars Bar by ss2003 on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @09:59AM (#25443282)
If you get a pihole you can stop the ads for the kids and save a few bucks.
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Re:The biggest competitor to your digital service? The Mars Bar by dcolkitt on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @10:06AM (#25443379)
Yeah, that's a great point. I have a raspberry pi that I've been meaning to setup for a while now.

Though the other advantage with Youtube Premium is that you can cache videos offline in the kids app. That's super-helpful for long trips. (Not that there's been many in 2020.)

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Re:The biggest competitor to your digital service? The Mars Bar by TorKlingberg on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @11:17AM (#25444322)
Can pihole really block YouTube ads? A quick googling suggests not.
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Re:The biggest competitor to your digital service? The Mars Bar by oldie on Thursday December 17, 2020 @12:14PM (#25457585)
Regrettably, it can't.
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Re:The biggest competitor to your digital service? The Mars Bar by bonoboTP on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @03:35PM (#25448226)
Or use YouTube Vanced.
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