I refuse to pay for ads to be delivered to me. Seeing them unpaid is bad enough and I avoid it at all costs. But I will not pay for ads.
this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2023
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I've returned to the high seas, eye patch and all.
I found a seedbox provider that is fairly cheap and works well. I have a long standing rss feed for new shows so next step is going to be getting it setup to auto download for me. I can do it locally but spectrum is hard core with the dmca notices and I don't want to risk losing my account.
Have a look at the **arr range of apps
Sonarr and Radarr with NZBGet, usenet indexer and a cheap unlimited news server provider, and you're laughing. I have everything downloading automagically as soon as its release, loads right into Jellyfin - all on a copyright notice keen ISP and never have any issues because im not sharing anything up, its all down with usenet
I have Spectrum as well, but using a VPN w/ dead switch turned on has worked thus far. They really are ruthless with dmca though. Hate Spectrum with a deep, deep passion, and not just because of that, but everything else. There's a competitor rolling out fiber everywhere in my city though, so I will soon be ditching them, thankfully.
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How do people think paying for a service and still being served ads is acceptable?
Hulu has a lower price tear that includes ads. It makes it more affordable for some people. If they had started out with ads I would be less upset, but for a big company like Amazon it just seems like they're trying to make even more money off of the consumer.
To be fair, Prime Video has always just been a free perk attached to prime (and with all the other 'perks' combined you could basically consider it free). For example I get an extra 3% back on all my Amazon orders by being a prime member. At the current cost of prime and just with the home supplies I order w/ subscribe and save, it pays for itself. That's not to say I'm happy with this, but in actuality they're fairly well positioned with the product to make this move and have most of the user base be merely disgruntled.
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.
My ISP already offers a streaming package, you pay monthly for a package of streaming apps. It's literally cable with extra steps
Finally, that's what everyone has been eagerly waiting for ...
Yeah, what we were always missing after fleeing cable, was the ads that really made each show worth it.
Why can't we just have nice things?
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.
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?!).
Likely this is legacy from when you would buy each season as a DVD set
Paramount Plus is the worst streaming service with the second best content
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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..
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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)
I see prime as a freebie. I get it cause I have prime for my package deliveries
My experience with prime delivery in 2023 is that it has gone from two days to four days to two weeks to completely lost fuck you trying to get a refund.
Further, I stopped using eBay in the late 2000s because everything there became "fell off a truck in China" quality. This is what a vast percentage of Amazon product has become.
This is the crux desire to cancel.
eBay has its uses, especially when you’re trying to find used genuine parts for whatever you’re working on, but other than that both eBay and Amazon seem to be flooded with Chinese crap
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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.
Is that new? When I cancelled last year a couple months into my year long subscription I got the money back for the unused months. No problem, easy too.
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That's not accurate, they don't stop your benefits when you hit the cancel button. I just cancelled today and have my benefits until the end of my yearly subscription in November.
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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.
And increasingly I'm finding that they're making me place a minimum order size to get the free shipping. You know - like shipping was without prime.
"We aim to provide a meaningfully worse experience than the sailors of the seven seas are getting," Amazon insisted.
The enshitification will continue until there isn't any cent left to transfer to the shareholders.
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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.
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It already fucking has one!! And I have prime!! what the fuck
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.
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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.
Translation: Amazon is raising the price of Prime by $3/month. For comparison, Prime Video is currently $9/month.
Meanwhile, me, pirating like a chad
Time to ditch Prime.
TBH, it was a long ago, but this is the last straw.
Amazon Prime hasn't been good for years. There's no reason to pay for it.
If amazon was smart they would have not included their streaming service in their free shipping subscription but now it just feels like an expensive bloated product with minimal value.
I used to think I ought to cancel.
I still do, but I used to, too.
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.
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I have had prime for a decade and never once watched their content on their platform. WEB-DL baby
So ads, charging for shipping on many products, and costing $140 a year? Hmm.
Alternate Headline: “Amazon ruins Prime and forces their customers to cancel their Prime Memberships by putting advertisements into paid content”
For the first time I was contemplating cancelling my prime subscription,but now I believe the contemplation is over.
Prime is still worth it to me for the free shipping, but I won't be watching their video if I have to watch ads and I certainly won't be paying extra for the privilege of not having to watch them.
I really hate the "free shipping" line. It's not free, you are literally paying a monthly fee for it, even if you buy nothing. That is in no way "free".
Are you really buying from Amazon more than twice a month? If yes, stop/wait and combine shipments. If not, cancel prime because even at their now-standard $6 shipping per order, you'd break even or save $6-$12.
I've taught my parents this, and they now see the idiocy in buying things the second they think of them, even if they won't use it for weeks. A $4 item with $6 shipping is so incredibly stupid, but now that they wait until they "need" a few items, suddenly shipping is $0 because they reached the $35 tipping point. Even at the 'discounted' federal assistance price level of prime (I'm disabled), it made no sense.
That, and they claim you get "faster" shipping with Prime but in my area at least they always manage to fuck it up, so they wind up delivering every single order days or sometimes a week later than they originally promised. I therefore have no desire to pay them a bribe just to fuck up anyway; they stuff I order without Prime gets here in the same time frame 95% of the time. It's literally worthless.
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