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I cancelled prime when they first introduced ads. But the delivery fees without prime, damn. I think I'd pirate shows if I got prime but I'm pretty sure that just makes them think they should invest in fewer shows. And damned if, pre ads, prime didn't have a lot of my favourites (boys, invincible, end of the expanse etc.)
What a ramble. I'm just torn.
Perhaps the ad-free prime video subscription could be a viable option if prime has a lot of your favourite shows and you are opposed to piracy?
Not judging or telling you what to do. Just thinking out loud.
I would just go with piracy if you don't want to pay the ad free tier.
My gripe is that i was on an ad free tier. They just changed it so that the tier that was previously add free now had ads.
If they had added an ad free tier below my tier i would probably still be a subscriber.
"you watch ads now, pay more or fuck off" didnt sit well with me so i fucked off
I unsubscribed in January and still have too much stuff to watch. Although that is helped by being in the UK and having iPlayer I guess. I've also spent way less on impulse buying crap because of the free shipping. Absolutely do not miss Prime.
I think I'd miss the free shipping and I might have to actually put things in a cart and wait until I reach minimum order to checkout. I could easily live without video and when I actually went to watch something on it the other day the ads were already enough to turn me off
I stopped my auto renew for next year, we don't order things like we used to so at this point we probably pay more on the yearly contract than we would have on shipping. Plus best buy Costco and Walmart have decent webstores too so we'll probably diversify a little
That's exactly what I am doing. Bought something from them (ugh) 3 times this year. All something my brick and mortar store either pulled from inventory and doesnt sell anymore, more expensive elsewhere or just damn convenience since it's bigger at the store and thus cumbersome to transport or too expensive or both.
You’re already paying for shipping - just upfront and once a year. My reasoning when I quit was that I could likely add things to get to the free shipping or just pay for shipping a few times and still save money.
I’ve had prime for years but still pirate.
It’s just easier.
"Tolerate," my ass. I'm paying the three dollars a month for ad-free Prime, because I'm not watching ads during an election year. The damn election is stressful enough as it is.
Prime Video is just barely worth the price, but now that all the Stephen J. Cannell shows have been moved to Shout Factory TV, I'm reconsidering. Between that and all the shows on Freevee (uh, what part of "ad free viewing" don't you understand?), the only tangible benefit I get from Amazon Prime is free shipping... and that free shipping isn't as fast as it used to be before the pandemic.
I paid for the ad free add-on while Rings of Power is on but after that I'll just cancel Prime completely until there's another show I want to watch, so they're overall losing money from me with this decision.
I have free prime through my ISP. I still pirate the content. I started even before the full blown ads, when they had "previews" of other shows and movies.
And they've already ramped it up quite a bit. Been watching a show for couple of months, used to be one ad per episode, which I could handle, now it's like every 10 minutes. So I've already cancelled and found the show using other ways.
What’s good about Amazon anyway? It’s better to get stuff directly from a sellers site, even better if they’re indie. There’s not much value to prime shipping anymore, most sellers are pretty good about it now ironically because of Amazon. Using services like Amazon just creates more pollution, wage depression and small business closures. Use services like Amazon less, favor indie and small and fair wage businesses
The hardest part to combat is laziness. Amazon is a one stop shop. Personally I don't care to shop online much anymore but when I do I'm always using direct websites for the companies since I know what I'm looking for.
Also something scary to think about, They could lose most of their customers and still thrive because of how much money they have already pulled in.
Still waiting on a video free version, like I originally ordered... probably $30/mo next year
My Amazon streaming app on my Xbox literally only works when using my PiHole. Their poorly tested ad software literally prevented me from watching Prime for a few weeks until I turned my PiHole back on.
Hmmm maybe it's time to solicit that VPN that doesn't collect logs and is shady enough to accept cash payment.....
You know you can pay proton with cash, right? No need to go all shady
Good thing adblock didn't work on the browser version of Prime video last time I used it after getting tired of the ads on the app version!
It's possible they're embedding ads now though
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.
Deeper into the high seas!
I cancelled prime the day they announced it and got a VPN instead.
That's what you do if you pay a giant corpo; you feed a kraken, so it can grow more arms and get greedier.
I've just stopped watching all prime content. Paramount+ is really pissing me off right now as well.
