Hello everyone,
While I’m doing a bunch of things today, Jamie T of our Throwback Saturday Night program was asking about Streaming services and how much of a compromise they are.
While I used Hulu under the free plan until they went paid, I personally do not use any streaming service and pay for it.
This is a 2020 article titled The Streaming Wars: A Cybercriminal’s Perspective which is very well written.
Five platforms were mentioned and rightly so. Apple TV was the least likely of having problems with malware and the like, however, if you use an app to connect other services to your TV, you could be at risk.
This is well worth the read, and I think people should read it, even though it is 2 years old. The fact is, since the Pandemic is still happening in a lot of the world, the cybercriminals will not stop at anything to get their wares out, if that means scaring people half to death.
Have you seen this article and what do you think?
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To be honest I have not noticed anything like this.
Here the dominant stream service is netflix.
Most previders have this baked into their plans including my current one.
And if you don’t have it the next plan you get from a net previder will have it.
Some have amazon prime and or neo included to with the local big coms brand spark previding its own.
Disney pluss exists here as well.
Those are the known ones but there are others.
I have not seen any real wars going on, though with most getting netflix by default and maybe disney, and some getting youtube there isn’t much at least locally.
Its not surprising that there is a war with the streaming companies.
Rova and spotify dominate the audio spectrom as well as tune in and i heart radio.
A lot of stations are running their own smart speaker streamers.
And in some cases the digital broadcast of a station via a streamer is better than say the actual station on either am or fm.
Which in itself is interesting as it wasn’t long ago where stations on digital had all the windows media junk signals in them.