Some things that make it very annoying to me:
- She complains whenever she can’t find certain movies
- She usually searches using the complete video title in the search bar, it’s usually something like: Movie name - Complete Movie - Dubbed - Pirate Site or Uploader - Genre
- She has a list of saved movie/video titles in a .docx file, where she also writes whether she liked the movie or not. Whenever a YT search shows something she thinks she’ll be interested, she copies the title to the doc.
- Will usually use that same search on Netflix, or continue typing and adding more despite no search results showing already.
- Complains about video/audio quality
- Complains when there’s no dubbed version
- Complains when the “movie” is just a trailer repeating for 1 hour
- Seems to willfully ignore my explanations to why searching for and watching full movies on YT sucks (it’s pirate content on a platform that doesn’t allow piracy)
- Ignores some 🏴☠️ alternatives I’ve set up, because “there’s nothing interesting there”
- “Forgets” anything I teach her about searching and search terms in 5 minutes
To be fair, most of the movies she “wants” to watch aren’t available on any streaming services. Feels like I’m dealing with the world’s worst pirate.
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If your mom is that preoccupied with that nonsense, IDK it seems like a blessing in disguise because she could be distracted with that while you possibly have more freedom? Trying to find a silver lining here.
So she’s like my mom who writes complete question phrases on Google and is pissed off that THE google doesn’t know the answer?
She’ll love Google’s AI then. Or hate it with a passion. It’s sometimes very useful or more dumb then the actual search results.
Looks like it, my brother from the same yet another mother
I would probably try setting up a custom browser, either chrome or Firefox, whichever she doesn’t use already, set up ublock, and set the homepage to a pirate streaming site. I use bflix.gg, which (usually) has subtitles of all languages for most stuff, but if she’s not English speaking there might be better options.
Then just tell her that browser is youtube for movies. It should be easy enough for her to use and there’s only one step to remember, open the new browser. You could even name the shortcut youtube movies or something.
Yes! She likes the YouTube UI, make the streaming site a better experience.
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I’d buy them a Roku, and show them how the global search works.
Easy answer for anything she searches for. It’ll either be free, paid, or not on any of the platforms.
Choosing beggar pirate that’s also your mom? Oh brother, I do not envy you
have you tried giving her a debrid+stremio setup? its very easy to use once set up and tehres everything on there
Have you tried getting a better mom?
lol, this is such an capitalistic free market response 😅
Thank you
OPs mom was recalled he’s just too lazy to being her back in
Funny enough, there’s a movie called Trading Mom about that, and it’s actually free on YouTube
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So teach her how to better pirate, don’t just plop it in front of her. Leave her an instructional document.
I’ve taught her the same things several times over. I’m not joking or using hyperbole. I’ve had her write down instructions herself about some things, like how to take screenshots and save images (she wrote that down three times, because she threw away the first 2 notebooks) - despite this, she still copies the image from Paint to Word in order to save it.
Is she forgetful in other ways, too? Could be there’s an underlying issue.
Not really, she was always very resistant to using computers. The real irony is that nowadays she spends most of her retired free time playing Hidden City and Jewels of Rome, despite me never showing her how to browser MS Store (she installed both from W10’s start menu ads)
Check the Carbon Monoxide levels!
Most couldn’t be bothered with your instruction they will just stick to the way they have invented
Have you tried setting up plex and then just putting in her requests?
Sounds frustrating to deal with
My friend’s husband does this; he runs a plex server for their family, parents/in-laws, and a brother I think. As the nephew got older he started sending in his requests, too. He also set up an email address just for movie requests and wrote a script to crawl the email inbox and automatically download the top search result. It ended up requiring very little input on his end.
That would also be my go-to solution, except she wants hundreds of movies (in which case Plex also makes sense, but more for her than for OP).
plexJellyfin
Or set up Overseerr so she can request it herself. If you’re on a fast connection you can go from request to it being in Plex in about five minutes if set to auto approve.
Feels like I’m dealing with the world’s worst pirate.
It is normal to get frustrated by technology you don’t understand. I know a bit about computers, but smartphones confuse and annoy me. Don’t worry too much about it.
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Not interested in learning
Complains constantly
Wants things for free
Doesn’t deserve your help in this area.
Maybe she just enjoys the experience of finding content on YouTube. Kind of like those metal scavengers who go to the beach all day to find a penny or a nickel. Not about the destination it’s about the journey. She gets a little adrenaline rush when she finds something nice maybe
What movies does she want to watch?
Seems to be whatever she finds on YT. Blockbusters, big budget stuff and whatever is on Netflix never catches her attention. She also prefers watching old (1990 and older) movies.
What language?
Brazilian portuguese. But, like I said in the op, not only she ignored alternatives (popcorn time and kodi), she always “forgets” best search practices.
It’s usually as easy as searching for 1…2…3… :-)
