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yo ho, a pirates life for me

How do people think paying for a service and still being served ads is acceptable?

It's literally a race to the bottom on streaming services before we eventually end up with cable in an app. Or rather multiple apps.

Fuck I hate this timeline.

Finally, that's what everyone has been eagerly waiting for ...

Better not be advert breaks in the service I PAY FOR, or else I'm out.

I'm not paying anybody to serve me adverts. Ever.

Their application is already god awful, and their database is built incredibly poorly (what idiot decided that different seasons of one TV show should have entirely separate listings in the database, often making it hard to find?!).

AND, they're constantly trying to shove extra paid stuff down my throat, like something called Paramount+, in the thing I'm already bloody paying for.

I'm already at the edge of my tether with these people for their crappy service. If they introduce advertisment breaks into a service I'm paying for? That would be a direct insult, and I don't stand for that sort of thing.

Wow, first they destroy Prime Music to push you to pay extra for Music Unlimited and now this? I have no idea what the value of Prime even is now unless you order online frequently, which is harder and harder to justify with all the shady and low quality sellers polluting the site.

People use prime video? I find that half the shit I click on, it tells me it's not included with prime and I have to buy it..

I've been planning on cancelling prime at the end of the year. This closes the decision making process for me.

I've been sticking to Pluto and Tubi lately. Yes, they have ads, but they are entirely free and have enough content to keep me entertained for the duration of my ever decreasing television watching habits.

(End of year because due to terms and conditions, there is no benefit to cancel early)

The enshitification will continue until there isn't any cent left to transfer to the shareholders.

Prime already has ads and they are obnoxious. They are their own ads. Is outside ads the new development or what? New tiers?

Remember folks who are currently subscribed: They do not give prorated refunds for full year subs. ~~When you cancel the service ends immediately. Setup calendar reminders or eat the sunk cost now because~~ Amazon Prime is just a typical subscription entrapment scheme that will only get harder and harder to cancel, like a gym membership.

Edit: Thanks /u/@firadin - Cancel now, you don't lose anything and the membership simply won't renew on your renewal date.

This isn't even really normal entshitification, they added videos and some music cheap Spotify knockoff to their fast delivery flat rate. Nobody asked them to.

Then they slowly raised the price, essentially locking everyone that just wanted free fast delivery into a video streaming service and kept increasing the price.

They did this to force existing subscribers into their "new" business idea of a video streaming service, when they couldn't yet compete with the competition back then. Good news for them, their competitors are shit now.

Now they can include advertisements in it too and add more expensive advertisement free tiers. Essentially increasing the price again, but hiding it so people can't ask for subscription fees back in Europe.

Do they really think most people have forgotten they just wanted a fast delivery flat rate? They will never offer their delivery flat rate without video and all that stuff again, only if a legislature would force them.

Lol that’s a nope from me, dawg. I’ll bail on that once I start seeing ads on a thing I pay for.

Just in time for me to finish Invincible and fuck off

They aren't doing it because they have to, they're doing it to make money.

I just cancelled. Was thinking about doing it during the last price hike but never got around to it. Good thing they announced it now since it was going to renewed on the 15th of October.

It already fucking has one!! And I have prime!! what the fuck

yar har fiddle dee dee

"We aim to provide a meaningfully worse experience than the sailors of the seven seas are getting," Amazon insisted.

Time to ditch Prime.

TBH, it was a long ago, but this is the last straw.

So glad I cancelled Prime a few months ago. Turns out, I’m still getting free shipping even without it and I didn’t find Rings of Power worth pirating.

At the bottom of article…

Users will have the option to buy an ad-free subscription for an additional $2.99 per month, while the current prices will give them the version with ads.

Wow, that’s actually really shitty. They should have just raised the prices by $24, and announced a cheaper version of prime with ads. Nobody would have questioned it.

Meanwhile, me, pirating like a chad

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