Just keep in mind, if you use a free VPN, assume they are collecting all your data and any information you type into sites. All companies have to make money somehow and that’s their likely route to profit.
Please stop using a free VPN. That’s just begging to have all your information stolen. Credit cards and all.
IMSA themselves have the races live. We should be having quali, miots, MPC on and the race too.
However as I said: it’s outside of US
iOS makes it super easy to get a VPN up and running
Yes I have it and I been using peacock for about 2 years if I remember correctly I did through the xfinity app on the rewards section
I’d gladly pay if the coverage wasn’t riddled with ads. I thought that was the whole point of paying for a streaming service - no ads, watch the content you want.
I pay full price for a F1 TV subscription because it actually gives me what I want - all the sessions with commentary and no ads. Motorsport is basically nothing but one big advertising scheme. I don’t need to pay for the privilege of having more ads shoved down my throat.
Because the international feed doesn’t have breaks and isn’t completely ruined by ads every 10 minutes like Peacock’s coverage.
You’re not wrong, but also don’t buy exclusive broadcast rights then only air a quarter of the race just to force people to buy your streaming service to watch the race with a bunch of ad breaks.
I pay for F1, Indycar, and WEC already and if IMSA had a similar service I’d pay for it in a heartbeat. I’m not going to pay a middle man to show me commercials though. Frankly, most of us probably already have a VPN anyways.
Peacock isn’t commercial free. I’m not paying money for a feed where key moments could be interrupted at any time to cut to a commercial.
Peacock runs 3-4 minutes of commercials for 5 minutes of racing. It’s laughably bad. By using a VPN and IMSA’s Youtube page, there are no commercials they get money for views.
I use an old laptop connected to my TV and I only use it to watch IMSA with a VPN. There is no information or accounts stored on there
Plenty of free options out there that offer paid versions as well. Been using a free version of one of these for like 8 years. And in their words “the pay versions more than cover the free version”
Can’t believe I never realized this!
This is cable TV, 40 years ago. Started out ad free. Found out there was revenue growth left on the table.
Do you pay for cable TV?
Makes sense in a series like F1 where there’s ton of money on the table.
No, I don’t really watch much TV so I shamelessly pirate it through an automated torrenting system+home media server. The best way to make me stop would be to offer me something that has a similar breadth of content with no advertising…I don’t pirate games because Steam exists and makes it extremely easy to buy games and support developers. If I had to subscribe to XBox Games Pass, EA Play (or whatever it’s called now), some Ubisoft equivalent, all while not being able to play the games I wanted due to being on a 10 minute long ad break, I’d pirate those too!
I pay for a subscription to Proton. I chose them based on the quantity and speed of endpoints and privacy policy.