For anyone else pissed off about #Netflix, I suggest cancelling your subscription and getting a Synology NAS. (and get one for whoever you were sharing Netflix with before too)
It's got a nice web interface for downloading stuff (with a search!) and it can stream to all of your devices (on your home network) via the "SMB" protocol.
Just get the cheapest one that has their browser OS thingie.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/products/Servers/ci/15779?filters=fct_brand_name%3Asynology
For example, this guy is going to cost less than a year of Netflix and nobody can randomly take away any media you have saved.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1750525-REG/synology_4tb_diskstation_ds120j_1_bay.html
@mauve I think this is my first bookmark..
@mauve one more sad thing of living in Brazil is that synology costs more than 10 years of netflix because the taxes and international exchange.
@lumen Are there more local alternatives? Iimagine there's a large community of folks inro this use case over there
@mauve not really. Every tech is insanely expensive. A raspberry pi costs half of minimum wage to get an idea of the problem. The last Iphone costs more than a 3 year old car.
Just bad administration.
Of course you should only be downloading media that you have rights to and should *NOT* follow this guide for adding more search engines to the built in Download Station software.
http://www.synoboost.com/
The Download Station software *shouldn't* be used for pirating copyrighted material from the comfort of any web browser! https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/packages/DownloadStation