Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site

Re:Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site by aqme28 on Friday November 07, 2025 @08:12AM (#45845979)

I have often found that the illegal sites have much better UX for finding movies to watch. I can filter by review score, year of release, genre, country of origin, or half dozen other variables and in all combinations. And then they're presented in a big readable table rather than five options I have to scroll endlessly through.

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Re:Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site by pimeys on Friday November 07, 2025 @08:41AM (#45846245)

With usually the best reviews compared to Rotten Tomatoes et.al.

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Re:Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site by TheOtherHobbes on Friday November 07, 2025 @08:54AM (#45846382)

Not true. My experience is the UX is okay to good, but often there's click-bait ad-serving friction and distraction.

You never know if your search is get you what you want, bring up a pop-up of HotLonelyBabes4U (when you're looking for kids cartoons), or take you to a scam site that wants you to download a "helper."

Aside from that, the experience is rarely terrible - like the trad video streaming sites that give you endless horizontal scrolling lists sorted very broadly by topic, kind of, with an entertaining randomness about the categories.

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Re:Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site by aqme28 on Friday November 07, 2025 @08:58AM (#45846420)

It sounds like we used different sites.

To be fair, a good adblock is MANDATORY on these streaming sites.

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