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I’d seen rumours online but got the email this morning.
EDIT: seems like there won’t be ads for everyone straight away.
- Live events, such as sports, and content offered through Amazon Freevee will continue to include advertising. Customers in the Republic of Ireland, Channel Islands, and Isle of Man won’t see ads in their experience at this time.
I only have Netflix left, for the kids. Everything else I obtain “elsewhere”.
Same but Disney+ because they're young but since they're not ours and we only babysit then on weekends, if we decide to move I'll be able to also cancel that...
My prime sub is more for free delivery on packages, rather than their shitty prime video service.
That said my dad does get some use out of it.
I dropped Prime before any of this happened. I was paying mostly for the two-day shipping, which became increasingly longer than two days.
What made me quit it was when I ordered two of the same item from the same seller, but one shipped from the seller and one direct from Amazon. Both were listed in stock. The one shipped by the seller arrived in three days. The one shipped by Amazon had not yet shipped after the first week. I even contacted the seller, who suggested I cancel, but Amazon wouldn't accept my cancelation, so I had to wait more than two weeks for it to ship.
Turns out I was a fool to be paying Amazon all that time for a sub-optimal service. And I've saved so much money ever since when I can't just buy things with free shipping. In fact, I rarely buy anything from Amazon at all anymore.
So this? This tracks with the direction they've been heading for a long time, and it doesn't surprise me one bit.
Funny that it's 2.99 no matter what currency you're using... I'm saving money by living in Canada!
Just means it's all bullshit.
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 deleting of 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.
PS: Recently discovered Smashwords and am buying tons of ebooks from them as I can download all of them in open formats. IMHO, merelly the clued-on minority ditching Prime won't hurt them enough to make up for the vast bulk of people who will just stick around and accept ads, so the best we can do to screw Amazon is to spread information about sites that can be used to get same kind of stuff Amazon sells, so this is my small contribution.
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?
Cancel immediately. That's what I did, and I'm not looking back.
I specifically used the link in that email because I knew it had analytics tied to it.
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.
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?
I'm one of them libural pansy hippies who occasionally gets (slightly more) humane 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.
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?
I guess it's time to invest in a NAS hardware upgrade..
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.
Yup I Just cancelled F Amazon. Only had Prime for the streaming and the crappy Prime shipping that was always late.
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.
Would drop prime but I use it mainly for the shipping advantages and dont watch anything on it except 2 shows
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)_/¯
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).
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.
https://youtu.be/rimtaSgGz_4 just gonna leave this here
Can you give 1 sentence for the video impaired please?
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.
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.
Are the ads to fuel future shows, or to recoup losses from the abhorrent money pit that is Rings of Power?
“Line no go up, we get more money from you and advertisers, now line go up again”
Fuck amazon
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"
They were running forced movie "recommendations" (=ads) before movies to gather metrics to present to the advertisers