I’d seen rumours online but got the email this morning.
So cancel it
I have to pay extra to remove ads from Prime Video
Submitted 10 months ago by governorkeagan@lemdro.id to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Would drop prime but I use it mainly for the shipping advantages and dont watch anything on it except 2 shows
Aceticon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Myself, I’m enjoying this.
Even gave myself a virtual pat on the back.
Then again I’ve been avoiding Amazon like the Plague for at least a decade: I still remember their removing ebooks that people bought from their Fire Tablets some years ago and don’t trust those fuckers at all in any way form or shape.
Glad more people are figuring it out, and in a way that’s mainly mildly infuriating.
HipHoboHarold@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I recently wanted an audiobook and found out it’s only available on Audible(because of course), so I resubscribed from when I had it about 5-6 years ago. Plan was to get the book and cancel again. They have also removed audiobooks from my account. Granted, they’re still available on audible. They weren’t taken off the service. I can buy them again. But it just shows they aren’t mine anymore.
From now on, I will pirate something before I subscribe again.
HeavyDogFeet@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Wait til they find out I’m happy to pay nothing and still get the same content (often with less hassle).
All these streaming services seem to have forgotten that piracy is incredibly easy and a lot of use chose to use their services because they were originally convenient and affordable. Now that they’re more fractured than ever and way more expensive, why would I bother?
desmosthenes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
youtu.be/rimtaSgGz_4 just gonna leave this here
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Can you give 1 sentence for the video impaired please?
Zeeber@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
The internet is getting shittier because the services themselves are getting worse through consolidation and acquisitions instead of improving products so we need to make laws that protect users and giving them means of keeping those services accountable.
wanderingmagus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
One sentence: The presentation explores the enshittification of tech companies, outlines a three-step plan involving breaking up big tech, promoting interoperability, and restoring hacking rights, with the goal of creating a user-empowered, open internet.
Longer summary:
The user laments the current state of the internet, particularly focusing on Facebook as a case study. They discuss the stages of “enshittification,” where platforms start by benefiting users, then shift focus to business customers, and finally extract value for themselves, leading to platform decay. The user also explores the role of antitrust issues, lack of competition, and how big tech companies exploit low switching costs and impede adversarial interoperability. The talk emphasizes the need for policy changes to build a new, better internet.
The speaker elaborates on the concept of “enshittification,” where tech companies consolidate power, manipulate platforms, and resist competition. They propose a three-step plan to counter this: break up big tech companies, promote interoperability through laws like the Digital Markets Act, and restore the right to modify and hack services. The goal is to create a new, open internet that empowers users and prevents unchecked corporate influence. The speaker emphasizes the need for public support and involvement to shape a better future for technology.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
looks like I got beat to it
I like wikipedia’s lololol:
Enshittification, also known as platform decay,[1] is the pattern of decreasing quality of online platforms that act as two-sided markets. Enshittification can be seen as a form of rent-seeking.[2] Examples of alleged enshittification have included Amazon, Bandcamp, Facebook, Google Search, Quora, Reddit, and Twitter.
FMEEE@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
On Christmas we wanted to watch a movie at my Family’s House and the Prime Video Servers where so fucked that we couldn’t watch it (it was an payed Movie). I generally think Prime Video and Music is shit.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Funny that it’s 2.99 no matter what currency you’re using… I’m saving money by living in Canada!
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Just means it’s all bullshit.
ryper@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
But Prime is $99 in Canada vs $140 in the US, so it’s a bigger increase percentage-wise
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
But OP is in the UK, don’t know what the price is there…
Why is it more expensive in the USA? Do they get more stuff included?
jordanlund@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Dropped Prime when they boosted it to $140, feels like a better decision every day.
MxM111@kbin.social 10 months ago
To be fair, coupling free shipment with video was strange to begin with. So, they are decoupling it a bit. I do not care about Amazon video, why should I pay for it at all?
ares35@kbin.social 10 months ago
when they do fully separate the two unrelated services and people have separate charges for each, they'll soon realize how many people only watched it because it was tacked-on in the first place.
Perilous@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
Well, it was already possible, at least where I live, to get prime video only. Especially helpful since Prime doesn’t have any faster shipping where I live anyway. That’s the subscription I had, but I cancelled them a while ago already, so I don’t know how this decision impacts subscribers like that
cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well it’s a good thing when they decoupled it they reduced prime shipping by 2.99 a month.
…oh wait.
MxM111@kbin.social 10 months ago
They probably needed to adjust costs for inflation, so not increasing the overall prime and instead increasing just the video portion is good in my book. People should not pay for services they do not use.
Fisk400@feddit.nu 10 months ago
That’s unfortunate. Prime video had some shows that were good and it had a really cool feature where you got information about the actors on your phone while you were chromecasting. Everyone with lines got a card with their name, characters name (if it’s revealed) and what they are known for. Video was the only part of the company that I am not actively boycotting but I guess its piracy all the way now.
LifeOfChance@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Can someone tell me what the point of prime is at this point? I don’t remember the last time a package arrived in under a week and now there are ads of a shitty streaming service?
meliaesc@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m one of those libural hippies who occasionally gets meat/dairy at whole foods. Did the math and begrudgingly, the prime exclusive discounts covered the costs. The alternative for me is going full vegan, or spending even more at a similar store, either of which would just suck.
RazorsLedge@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Dealing with a restricted diet sucks less than living with the guilt of the absolutely cruel abuses that you’d be enabling by buying meat. Those animals feel fear and pain just like you do.
VindianaJones@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Cancel immediately. That’s what I did, and I’m not looking back.
DScratch@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I specifically used the link in that email because I knew it had analytics tied to it.
shredderdoitbetta@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I refuse to pay for content and I refuse to pay for ads
Akuchimoya@startrek.website 10 months ago
Paying for content is one thing. Besides greedy studio execs, there are a lot of small potatoes people trying to make honest livings who work to produce the final products.
Ads, though, are supposed to defray COSTS. Marketers part studios to run ads. Cinnamon paying for ads is an oxymoronic situation.
Aasikki@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
I’ll happily pay for content if it’s something I want to watch and it’s a fair deal. Video streaming services are honestly neither of those personally, so fuck them.
But despite most people being against YouTube premium, that’s the one exception for me. Mainly because that’s where all the content and content creators I want to watch are at. I place a lot of value in supporting the creators I watch there. You may argue that paying for their Patreons would be better, but I watch so many great channels that I honestly can’t decide which one to support like that, and with premium they all get at least something from me. Yeah google gets a cut, but such is life. Throw in YouTube music and it’s far from a bad deal from my point of view, especially with the family pricing.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I guess it’s time to invest in a NAS hardware upgrade…
Rolando@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Cancelled my Prime account last year. Kept my Amazon account and since then, used it twice to order stuff I couldn’t find anywhere else. Still got free shipping.
Amazon video? Never used it.
corey389@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yup I Just cancelled F Amazon. Only had Prime for the streaming and the crappy Prime shipping that was always late.
protokaiser@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The last straw for me was no more free returns. I cancelled my prime but it doesn’t expire for a few months. A buddy of mine is doing the same. It’s no longer worth it.
ImpossibilityBox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ll be paying and having no second thoughts about it.
I know you all LOVE to scream “shiver me timbers” at the drop of a hat but for me it’s just to much hassle. At the end of a long day at work I don’t want to have to figure out if my torrents are properly managed or use potentially questionable websites.
What I want to do is come home, press the microphone button on my shield remote, tell it what I want to watch and let it go. No hassle, no fuss, I don’t care about anything so incredibly much that if it suddenly wasn’t available then I NEED to have it at any cost. To me that kind of “have to have it right now and at all times forever and ever” mentality is just as bad as the rampant blind consumerism that the majority of humanity seems to embrace. If I want something that bad I’ll find a way to purchase it physically.
nikosan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I mean this is just cuz you don’t kno how lol. I honestly find it significantly more convenient having literally all of my media on Plex vs. across 5 different streaming services that all charge too much, still give you ads, have inconsistent libraries, and pull shit when you’re in the middle of watching it.
HollandJim@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Have not seen that in the Netherlands but I’m still dropping it. Haven’t seen anything we enjoyed watching for months (and Prime delivery still takes a week in most cases).
danielbln@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Saw it today in Germany. Cancelled my sub. Ads is a line in the sand that won’t be crossed no matter what.
HollandJim@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Agreed. No idea why you got downvoted; if I wanted ads I’d subscribe to cable and not a streamer who’s also using the ads to track me further.
pachrist@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Are the ads to fuel future shows, or to recoup losses from the abhorrent money pit that is Rings of Power?
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Didn’t know Rings of Power was a money pit, only knew it was a disaster. Can’t bother to Google it, would you be so kind and give me a rough number?
khannie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Customers in the Republic of Ireland, Channel Islands, and Isle of Man won’t see ads in their experience at this time.
Well, I got the same email and I’m in RoI. I just agreed to cancel with my wife so ¯\(ツ)/¯
drasticpotatoes@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I received one of these as well. I pay for Prime for other reasons and pirate any shows I want to watch cuz fuck watching ads.
snekerpimp@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“Line no go up, we get more money from you and advertisers, now line go up again”
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 10 months ago
It had ads before movies from a long time, 4+ years or even more. The difference is before they were calling them “recommendations”, now they’re called “ads”
phillaholic@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Trailers shouldn’t be lumped in with ads for Products imo. Trailers before movies have existed forever. Getting interrupted by an ad for Honda is annoying.
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Have you been to a movie theatre lately? You get car ads before the previews now.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Now I have an excuse to drop Prime.
littlebluespark@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yo HOoOoO! 🦜
willybe@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I cancelled my subscription. I’ve haven’t felt this free in a while. I’m no longer a slave to Amazon.
hogmomma@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t understand this mindset. Could you elaborate a bit? What about Amazon’s service or products made you feel enslaved by them?
tok@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
cheap, fast delivery, easy returns
cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Not me, I use it for shipping only anyways lol. I also have zero tolerance for ads. If it’s not on the couple of services I already pay for, I just play it on Plex instead.
willybe@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
A few things
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Amazon years their employees like shit. Pay and treat them properly. Our gadget for $20 less than we can get from another store is subsidized by those workers.
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the commercials on Prime video. I specifically pay to watch shows, and not be interrupted and pitched dish soap. That was the deal
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removing the option of prime delivery will mean I will source my options more fairly to local sellers
In the end, I feel less dirty by not having that option. In the long run, will Amazon serve me better? The enshitification of the internet has taught me the answer will be no.
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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
This is why cloud free content is always better.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 10 months ago
movie-web.app
elscallr@lemmy.world 10 months ago
🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️ oh boy here I go again
I’ve cut off all but Disney+ and that’s only because my nieces and nephews use it. Everything else just gets put into my 80TB raid now. Could probably do to start purging some of it, but also I wanna keep the writes to a minimum to extend drive life and I’m not anywhere near full.
just_change_it@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Even if your drives are all SSD you’re never going to have so many writes that it dies unless you download a full catalog of 8k content daily then nuke it and start over… for a few years
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Why would writes matter? I assume at 80TB you aren’t using SSD. Magnetic drives don’t care whether they are reading or writing. It’s the spinning and heads moving that wear them out.