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The enshittification will continue until morale improves
Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free.
I got Prime for the shipping, so I won't cancel. If there is anything I really want to watch...🏴☠️
Yeah it's a weird position to be in. I'll be paying for the service but pirating the few shows I watch.
Probably more common than you might think
Yeah, same here, though I think I'll be reevaluating the true utility of Prime next time the subscription is up for renewal since Prime delivery tends to mean "sometimes in the next week" now rather than the original two days.
I know I for one only have ever taken advantage of the shipping benefits. That alone makes the 120$/year worth it for me. Anything else is just cherries on top lmao
Exactly
In one sense it's like getting a streaming service for $3 a month.
In another sense, it's like the prime value proposition is starting to crumble. I got it for the shipping but the video was nice and music was discounted and pretty good.
It def feels like these companies are turning the screws because they know they can get away with it. And on principle that bothers me, but I'm also torn because I want to pay for content I like (and don't want ad supported media).
I got an eye patch laying around here somewhere. I might have to dust it off. It's been 15 years since I wore it.
I'm planning to do the same thing with Paramount+ (got it free with Walmart+)
They’re getting your money anyway and you aren’t putting any load on their servers. I don’t think they mind.
Yeah, that was the point. The service I signed up for remains unchanged and I am still pleased with it. Prime Video was originally a quirky perk full of awful low budget content. If there is anything I like, I will pirate anyway because streaming services cannot be trusted to keep content available. So ultimately nothing has changed for myself or Amazon.
Other than The Boys and Wheel of Time, is there anything else worth watching on Prime?
PS: Never "buy" digital content with DRM. Buy physical media of the stuff you love. It supports the creators and it safeguards your purchase.
The Expanse is a great series.
I forgot about Expanse. Amazing series. Amos Burton is one of the best SciFi characters of all time.
Grand Tour, Expanse, Clarkson Farm
Believe it or not, straight to cancellation
The enshittification of the internet continues unabated.
Remember viewers are again a product to sell to advertisers rather than customers of a streaming service.
this story inspired me to create my own home server for yohoho as my nye resolution
It's pretty straightforward after you wrap your head around how it works!
For video, Jellyfin is a fantastic FOS sotware: very user friendly, simple, and does what you need. Downside is it's not available natively on all OSs (Samsung's Tizen stands out..). Plex is free and works well too, but you'll need to navigate some bloatware. It's available almost everywhere though.
I assume these will be as carefully and expertly placed as YouTube ads.
Have already canceled last month
More people need to cancel their subscription. (They most likely won't though) I am tired of corporations getting away with charging for ads. Not a trend that should ever have been allowed, imo.
Literally no one has prime for the streaming service
I might cancel. The main reason we got it in the first place was for Amazon Fresh during the worst of covid.
I chose to cancel a while back. I stopped using prime video, (really didn't like prime original ads at the start of everything), and usually didnt order enough to warrant the cost for free shipping. Especially since it would take a week or more before delivery.
The race to the bottom continues
They must want people to cancel, because this is how you get people to cancel. I’m using Amazon less for shipping, there’s so many knockoffs these days, I’m not interested in returns.
W Piracy
Time to find a good seed for The Expanse.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
We previously learned that this change was coming for Prime members, but now we know exactly when our streaming dreams will die.
Streaming services once offered a vision that TV and film content could thrive on a subscription model, offering users premium content for a low monthly fee, free of ads.
Prime was the last major streamer to hold off on introducing ads, but now it has followed the other media giants.
In a subscription model, a streaming service’s viewers are the customers: they fund the company to see premium content.
However, in an ad-supported model, the customers are the product: Prime Video has premium (wealthy) viewers that are now sold as a demographic to advertisers and Amazon has tons of data on what its subscribers like to buy.
The only major difference from cable now is that streaming services are algorithmically curated to your preferences.
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