So I started reaching out to any company puting ads on .my PAID amazon prime account with the lowest rating possible anywhere I can find them on their aps, websites contacting their customer service citing the ads on amazon...if we vote with our wallets things can change.
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I want to congratulate streaming services. They got me off torrenting for a decade but multiplication, price hike and general enshitification has gotten me to install an *arr stack. My only media subscription now is $5 a month for a VPN.
So congrats guys, you've become the new cable and we've come full circle 👍.
And I will "ramp down" my Prime subscription.
I canceled prime as soon as they introduced ads into prime video. You should do the same.
You'll be less tempted to buy shit from them as an added benefit!
I know it’s only fractionally better, but I’ve started using AliExpress more for shit that I’d buy on Amazon in the past. Delivery takes a couple of weeks, but that’s had the added bonus of making think about how much I really need the thing I’m ordering.
But yeah, we canceled Prime when they added adverts. We didn’t really watch much on there, but it gave us the bump we needed to stop giving Amazon £10 a month, even if we didn’t order anything.
I also started to use AE, I feel a bit queasy about it for no good reason, but for some stuff AE is much cheaper and I don't see the point of giving 30% to a middle man selling Chinese stuff they got of Alibaba on Amazon.
What I discovered is that they have warehouse in Europe so even though it's not next day shipping, most stuff take no longer than a week sometime 3 days. I do remember the time when everything took a month or more.
Their app, though... Designed by a fucking lunatic, and the amount of scammy shit in there is astounding. Like products showing for $3 but when checking the product you realize the $3 is for an accessory and the product shown in the picture cost 20 times that. Most products have 3 or 4 variants which can be completely different items. There are literally no way to easily know what you're buying without carefully trying to decipher broken English and voluntary confusing description.
Yeah, the app is batshit and has got much weirder over the past year or so. It's now rammed full of competitions and ways to waste your time trying to get discounts that you'll never actually achieve.
There's also some really odd stuff on offer on there, which I kind of enjoy finding.
Jeff, I’ll say this as nicely as possible. Go fuck yourself
Stop, stop, I already decided to never buy anything off Amazon ever again, you don't have to convince me further.
I will ramp down my use of amazon prime
Hmm, unfortunately I can't go negative.
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Piracy is going to be as popular as ever.
Great news!
[When launched] Prime Video with ads was given a "very light ad load," providing subscribers “gentle entry into advertising that has exceeded customers expectations in terms of what the ad experience would be like." The executive pointed out that Prime Video with ads doesn't show commercials in the middle of content. That could change next year.
Planned enshittification a la boiling frogs.
The executive pointed out that Prime Video with ads doesn't show commercials in the middle of Content
That's a blatant lie, it definitely does.
Copying my reply to someone else:
What did they interrupt the episode for? Because a number of companies have adopted the policy that, if the interruption is promoting something else offered by the platform - say, a different program, or another tier of service - that those interruptions aren't really ads, because the company isn't actually getting paid to air it. It absolutely looks and acts like an ad to the viewers, but the companies are trying to redefine the word.
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I'll just pirate their shit. I'll pirate it so hard and I'll do it with both middle fingers in the air. But not literally, I would definitely need both hands to pirate their content.
Pretty sure you can be a decent pirate with a hook for a hand buddy. Don’t let your dreams be dreams!
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So are executives born with an asshole where their mouth belongs or do they surgically put it on when you get the gig?
Humans, being deuterostomes, have an embryological stage where we are just anuses.
Some humans never develop past that.
Light my arse, from the start they've interrupted with adverts for their own crap making it barely tolerable. Even on the adfree tier.
Canceled and no intention of ever going back. Measuring your ad load by American standards doesn't work when your competition is netflix and iPlayer.
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Well, guess it's time to get an eye patch and a pet parrot
Do you know any sea shanties to go along with that?
Is Alestorm close enough?
Yarr harr fiddle dee dee
Stealing from Bezos is alright with me
Don't watch their ads cause your time's not for free
You are a pirate!
What shall we do with an ad filled service? What shall we do with an ad filled service? What shall we do with an ad filled service? Before we go crazy!
Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Before we go crazy!
Cancel our subscription with greatest haste now! Cancel our subscription with greatest haste now! Cancel our subscription with greatest haste now! Before we go crazy!
Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Before we go crazy!
Search for the show on pirate websites! Search for the show on pirate websites! Search for the show on pirate websites! Before we go crazy!
Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Before we go crazy!
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Why is it that these fucks get to increase their price and just to offer shittier service but if I want a raise at my job I’ve got to go above and beyond?
Raises where you work are still based on merit? Damn!
You guys get raises?
Technically, no. The last few have been significantly below either measure of inflation. So in real terms, I've had a wage cut!
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That's okay, I'll ramp up my piracy of Amazon-exclusive shows in 2025 too.
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Just in time for me to have already cancelled my Prime membership last month. I've also not purchased from Amazon at all since then. Plan working as intended?!
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“Amazon.
We’re evil, and we like it!”
Honestly, it’s one of the more mask off of all the big companies.
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Attention subscribers! We will be making your experience worse going forward! We're not even going to soften our language to make it seem like we're doing you a favor! More ads for everyone!
Stopped watching netflix because they banned sharing accounts and £18 (24 USD) monthly was too much for just one person. Cheaper plans didn't have 4K or 5.1 audio, so it felt like a waste when I couldn't even use my setup as it is meant to be used.
Never watched prime because I refuse to pay for something then still see ads.
Now I either source stuff by other means (🏴☠️🦜) and put it on my media server, or I use BBC iPlayer. Not sure if that's a thing outside of the UK, but zero ads and decent quality programming is something I'm happy to pay their fee for, especially when it also goes towards funding ad-free TV, radio, news, sport, podcasts, etc.
It's fucked how greed has completely ruined the streaming market. Back in ~2010 it felt like the market was going in such a positive direction.
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Fitting cover picture
They've been increasing the ad load the whole time. The most I've seen so far is 5 ads. Streaming will return to broadcast TV convention sooner than people think probably. 15 minutes of ads per hour.
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Is it weird that I have prime but I pirate still?
It’s just not a good experience…
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🎶We’re rascals and scoundrels, we’re villains and knaves Drink up me hearties, yo ho We’re devils and black sheep, we’re really bad eggs Drink up me hearties, yo ho Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me🎶
And when it crashes the greedy rich fuckers who invested will find a way to pass the losses to the tax payers. Private gains and socialized losses are the newest trick of the rich.
Deeper into the high seas!
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