Guys. This is literally just a price increase for prime video. It sucks, but it is not the same as “prime getting ads”. Not saying it’s worth keeping, but you are yelling like your only option is to watch ads or cancel
Well that’s getting fucking cancelled then. The constant FreeVee ad supported shit was annoying enough, but they can properly fuck off now. Prime is just a vehicle to sell you more shit.
I canceled mine a year or two ago. Tbh I have not missed it much.
I also did not miss the shipping part as much as I thought I would. If I need to make an order, I wait until I have enough needs to hit the $35 level for free shipping. Even though amazon claims otherwise, I usually end up getting stuff in 2 days just like I used to with Prime.
This has the added benefit of making it less likely for me to be lazy and order a bunch of smaller things. I thus end up getting those things locally.
Streaming was nice while it lasted but these companies have survived looking enough too become the villains they sought to replace. Sad but fuck them and hoist the sails I say.
I would pay for Amazon Prime if they offered purely a free 2-day shipping only version, but I refuse to pay for Prime if it supports the media companies, so I don’t pay for Prime. I have zero interest in DRM-filled “you will own nothing and be happy” streaming bullshit, and I have negative interest in the same thing with ads. Enshittification at its finest.
Nope, fuck this. Been thinking about canceling Prime for a while now, they just keep raising the price while at the same time all their services get worse year after year.
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Ads EVERYWHERE! It’s time for us to make ad-less web rebellion.
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Ad free is the only way for a service im paying anything for. If they introduce ads then i will no longer be paying.
And if they don’t offer a paid ad-free service, I just won’t use it at all.
I hate ads, and I’m not giving one fucking second to them voluntarily.
The minute something injects ads is the minute I pave my exit strategy.
I hate ads with a passion.
Amazon about to lose my membership. It won’t hurt them but what it’s done is made me consider whether it’s something I want to support.
Companies need a new era of marketing because this generation reversing all their gains.
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Guys. This is literally just a price increase for prime video. It sucks, but it is not the same as “prime getting ads”. Not saying it’s worth keeping, but you are yelling like your only option is to watch ads or cancel
Well that’s getting fucking cancelled then. The constant FreeVee ad supported shit was annoying enough, but they can properly fuck off now. Prime is just a vehicle to sell you more shit.
Enshittification has just gotten started.
I canceled mine a year or two ago. Tbh I have not missed it much.
I also did not miss the shipping part as much as I thought I would. If I need to make an order, I wait until I have enough needs to hit the $35 level for free shipping. Even though amazon claims otherwise, I usually end up getting stuff in 2 days just like I used to with Prime.
This has the added benefit of making it less likely for me to be lazy and order a bunch of smaller things. I thus end up getting those things locally.
Streaming was nice while it lasted but these companies have survived looking enough too become the villains they sought to replace. Sad but fuck them and hoist the sails I say.
I would pay for Amazon Prime if they offered purely a free 2-day shipping only version, but I refuse to pay for Prime if it supports the media companies, so I don’t pay for Prime. I have zero interest in DRM-filled “you will own nothing and be happy” streaming bullshit, and I have negative interest in the same thing with ads. Enshittification at its finest.
Amazon Prime shows begin to be pirated by Amazon Prime Subscribers, until the end of the billing ear when they are no longer Prime Subscribers.
I’ve been on the fence with prime for a while, this will be the end
This is exactly why I pay for a seedbox and a usenet provider. I get an
.mkvwith no ad.Do you use subs?
The real news (har har) is that USENET is still around, damn. Probably been 20 years since I last touched it
Nope, fuck this. Been thinking about canceling Prime for a while now, they just keep raising the price while at the same time all their services get worse year after year.
I get my prime half off.
The added cost is less than the difference so I’d still be paying less than a regular prime membership.
And even still, I’m canceling the second I get an ad.
Fuck your monetization.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum for me!