What is the worst streaming platform and why?

Any of them with a completely unnecessary boot up noise. Especially when you forget download you left things, it can scare the crap out of people. And no options to disable it. Fuck these companies.
I think Diseny is the only major one that doesn't do that shit.

Paramount+
Every time I have tried it either via a free trial or on someone else's account, it refuses to load any of the content I want to see. The other services all suck in various ways, but at least they fucking work.
- Not that long ago I tried that on a free trial, I just don't get it. Like there's nothing on there. I used it to get to watch a couple football games, not even the local ones you can't watch those, but there was nothing else. Shocking lack of content for a paid product.

I hate them all, for much the same reason. They're all packed full of ads, even if you're paying top dollar (I count auto playing trailers for shows I'm not watching). Search is buried on purpose to make you look through the content that they want you to watch. They only have one or two good shows running new episodes at a time, so you have to bounce around between subscriptions, or forget about them and run up your credit card bill. Good shows get canceled all the time due to obscure metrics. Stremio + addons beats them all by a lot. If you want me to pay for streaming, make it worth it again.
- The big issue with Stremio is that it’s not a sustainable model. It relies on torrents to actually download the video, then just holds it in cache. This means you’re not actually seeding anything (at least, not enough to hit a 1.0 ratio) so you’re essentially just perma-leeching off of torrents. This means that if everybody used Stremio, nobody would be able to use Stremio. It makes torrents worse for everyone, including other Stremio users.
- So, uhhh, just put of curiosity, any particular add-ons you'd suggest?
  
  Torrentio forever and always

Netflix. They cancel anything worthwhile, flood the channel with knockoff realty programming, and charge the most.
Close second would be Max because Zaslav and the Discovery merger have have ruined it. Again, canceling good programming in a race to the reality show bottom while charging a premium price.
- Yep! Sick of shows being cancelled so I'm wary of starting things that aren't finished, increasing the likelihood they'll drop it. Plus so much of netflix is pure shit.
- Never will forgive them for canceling Kaos
- Realty would be more interesting than half the shows on Netflix tbh

In terms of functionality and UI, my vote goes to Paramount+. They're lucky I love Star Trek so much.
- Their app is such hot garbage. I have had to pirate episodes because my app gets frozen on ads and refuses to play an episode.

I'm not seeing enough hate here for HBO or MAX or whatever the fuck they're calling themselves to avoid liability or whatever. I mooched off the account of a friend of a friend, and I still felt ripped off. Dogshit app, constantly starting the next episode halfway through the last one. And don't even get me started on all the shows they made unavailable anywhere just for the tax write-off.
- Plus the subtitle bullshit. If you’re in Latin America, although you can watch things in English, oftentimes the only options for subtitles are Spanish and Portuguese. It’s obvious English subtitles exist. They’re just… disabled.
  
  Yes, that was another thing! The whole thing felt half-baked, like they rushed whatever they could out the door so they could do the rebrand, then figured it was good enough, since they had your money anyway. Well, not my money, but you know. Someone's.

Pretty much all of them, for much the same reason. If I’m paying you directly, you shouldn’t be showing me ads. If the amount you’re charging is not enough to support your service without showing me ads in addition to my subscription fee than you should raise the damned price.
To be clear, Ad supported is fine. Subscription supported, fine. I’m not paying a subscription to watch ads.

I would think the underground ones that host content which is horribly abusive and illegal (in ways beyond merely piracy)
- I bet they offer a better ui and amore stable service than Disney though.

What's a streaming platform?
glances at thepiratebay[dot]org 😎
- Well in that case, I guess you can add Plex to the list. I switched to Jellyfin after their recent update.

I sometimes use dailymotion for old tv shows that aren't on the others - the app used to be alright, just another YouTube-esque clone, but now they seem to be trying to turn it into a reels/tiktok/shorts thing and it is Bad
- Grayjay has a dailymotion plugin.
  
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Fanduel Sports Network The Roku App improperly validates email addresses. You have to contact support to change your email address on the account. The website stream doesn't automatically switch from the pregame show to the game. You can be logged in to the website and the support chat doesn't know whop you are.