Piracy it is then. Lol.

That will be the end of my prime subscription. I should probably just get rid of it now, the streams are better quality on the high seas anyways.

I already pay for it

I've been paying Amazon for more than 25 years just for the free deliveries. I don't watch anything on Prime, it's so hard to navigate between the free and rent videos. Been torrenting since the 90s, yeah I'm old, so my advice stands -get a good VPN, and sail the seven seas-

I already have the ad free tier. It's what I've been paying for!!!

When do you guys think they (companies/rich people/shareholders(?)) will realize that growth for the sake of growth is not viable and there will be a point of stagnation? Like... What are they gonna do, keep raising prices until nobody can b uy anything anymore?

Yohoho my dudes and dudettes and dudex. And a bottle of rum.

Disney hotstar and other OTTs are going to follow the suite, IG. Fuck them all.

There's been a lot of discussion recently about how companies have been making shitty decisions, which prompt people to move to the open-source alternatives, like what happened with Reddit, Twitter and Unity etc. However, is there a viable alternative for film-related media, beyond simply piracy?

While Lemmy, Godot etc obviously have many costs, primarily servers and development, they don't have to deal with licensing in the same way to get content. Is there an existing alternative, or do you see a way for there to ever be an existing alternative without some rich company already backing it?

All hand hoy!

Cancelled Prime a couple of years ago so that Amazon wasn't the default for ordering things anymore and wouldn't watch anything even via the free 30-day trial that they offer from time to time if commercials are shown. I'm still subscribed to Netflix as the family uses it extensively, but if something is not on there, Kodi has proven to be a good matey.

Why don't you just make a free version that plays ads? You know that reason why every sane person uses Tubi?

You know that one site which is the only that I don't use my ad blocker on, because I actually respect them enough to let the ads play

This is fine with me, since clearly they'll pass their increased profit onto their underpaid employees.

Wait...

Laughs in boycotting Amazon since 2011.

There goes that.

This is why I refused to ever buy cable: I am not going to pay for a service that forces ads on me. One or the other fuckers.

Got prime when Grand Tour came out. Now that we get two episodes a year if lucky not worth it anymore. Get better service with Instacart for delivery anyway.

They should also make people watch add bofore they are handed their Amazon Prime order. Unless they pay for the higher tier subscription.

Anyway, good to know that Amazon is finally doing something to fix its fledgling revenue from Prime.