Sites with closed captions are a challenge to find; I've managed for a bit, and I found great ones.

However, now I'm trying to watch a show called Tokyo Vice where open subtitles aren't working, and I have to find Nova ones.

However, sites that have them don't work 99% of the time for this show; I've tried hundreds.

The frustration of not being able to watch a show and chill before bed is huge; this show I quoted isn't even available in my country.

So yeah... This was my rant.

I checked many on FMHY including the one I always use, and most of them don't work now. As usual, we never give up, and I wish for them to recover soon and to be working again

That's the idea I've got lately. I used to have Spotify through a community that's been taken down; NewPipe/PipePipe has problems 5 days every month. I found a great site to watch shows with good CC thanks to this community, and a few days ago half the servers weren't working anymore, and the ones that are still working are slow, like unusable.

Is it just all a big coincidence, or is trying to make people exhausted a tactic?

I'm using hydra but it's a pain in the neck because you always have to find a server that works because they don't always (I even had a server having the next episode rather than the one I was supposed to watch yesterday), and then you have to hope they have English CC because sometimes they don't (have English language, shocking but happens), or sometimes the CC doesn't work altogether, or there isn't such a feature either. This takes 5-15 minutes all the time per episode, and even if it's free, it's annoying as hell.

Edit: let me be more precise, I love hydra, I just am wondering if there's something that works better by having reliable CC for English learners/second language speakers

Due to a financial situation I won't pay M365 anymore and wanted to use MAS for office activation.

I heard the script is open source, but would you trust it?

I was considering buying their lifetime subscription at the end of this month, but all the bots posting reviews and commenting on Reddit don't help.

I heard about this VPN in one of my recent threads here, and I believe Lemmy is cleaner than Reddit, so here I am, ready to read what you think about the service.

Would you use it to torrent? I said I only needed to watch movies, but eventually the stuff I watch is in a "niche" language, and the sites are overcrowded, so downloading from torrent is probably the best way (at the moment I'm downloading from the streaming sites through an app and Proton, but it's getting a bit slow).

^ It's not even Proton that's the problem; it's the sites that are slow as heck, and downloading an episode each evening sometimes is too much of a PITA. (while watching it like a normal user, well after dinner is basically a 1-minute wait every 10-15 seconds or something like that)

I wouldn't need such a tool usually, but when I watch content in my native language, the sites are clearly overused, and the video blocks every 5 seconds. On Android I use LJ Video Downloader, and I'm wondering if there's something for Windows.

My country never cared about this, but recently some people started getting fines. I generally pay for my games; I only use ReVanced and watch TV shows online.

What would be the cheapest VPN in the long run for this? As I said, I don't torrent, so port forwarding and stuff like that I don't care about.

There's also antimalware software bundled with the M365 subscription on Amazon; I've been using the VPN from that for a bit now.

Edit: Btw, do you think an antimalware VPN is safe? It's never been a problem (never like the USA, for example) over here in the EU, but recently they started slightly hunting pirates (never heard of anyone I know though). So yeah, maybe a simple VPN may suffice until they decide to go hardcore style?

Since spotify starting playing cat and mouse with revanced and xmanager users I tried Youtube Music. On PC I use spotx for spotify but I'm starting to enjoy ytm more and more, and I'm wondering if there's something similar to listen to it on PC.

If possible, something that's well known and considered safe.

Edit: I think there's the website with ublock, but does it work well?