nelson

While starting to actively block casting. Because you know, going to a vacation home and logging into a foreign device is a million times safer than just plugging in your own Chromecast.

Forcing people to buy smart TVs so they can watch your content ( or enable the smart function so they might get bombarded with ads ) is great customer service.

Just like telling everybody to share accounts with friends and family and then doing a 180 and complain that you’re losing money over this and we should pay more.

I have a hunch that 2026 will be the year off “piracy is skyrocketing once again and we have no idea why”.

Interesting. Thanks for that insight :)

Personally? No I’ve never bought a cert before. Given there’s free alternatives and it’s a homelab it doesn’t make sense. Otherwise I’ve used them on AWS, where ACM also just provides them for free.

What you’re saying is that certificate providers will still charge you and provide certificates for a year, but just provide you with N certificates to span that year?

E.g. if the duration is 45 days then they will give you 365/45 certificates ?

Don’t worry they’ll reduce the cost of certificates proportionally to the longevity of the certificate.

Right? Anybody?

<< Cricket noises >>

Edit: obviously not LE, but other certificate vendors.