I’ve just stopped watching all prime content. Paramount+ is really pissing me off right now as well.
They’ve been increasing the ad load the whole time. The most I’ve seen so far is 5 ads. Streaming will return to broadcast TV convention sooner than people think probably. 15 minutes of ads per hour.
20?
Why stop there?
Looks like I cancelled at the right time. They seem to forget that we in fact do have a choice at the end of the day. And my choice is to sail the high seas.
Media clowns act like their engagement slop is food or shelter… Guess users haven’t voted with their feet enough on this 100% discretionary expense
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
And when it crashes the greedy rich fuckers who invested will find a way to pass the losses to the tax payers. Private gains and socialized losses are the newest trick of the rich.
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.
Deeper into the high seas!
I canceled prime as soon as they introduced ads into prime video. You should do the same.
You’ll be less tempted to buy shit from them as an added benefit!
I know it’s only fractionally better, but I’ve started using AliExpress more for shit that I’d buy on Amazon in the past. Delivery takes a couple of weeks, but that’s had the added bonus of making think about how much I really need the thing I’m ordering.
But yeah, we canceled Prime when they added adverts. We didn’t really watch much on there, but it gave us the bump we needed to stop giving Amazon £10 a month, even if we didn’t order anything.
I also started to use AE, I feel a bit queasy about it for no good reason, but for some stuff AE is much cheaper and I don’t see the point of giving 30% to a middle man selling Chinese stuff they got of Alibaba on Amazon.
What I discovered is that they have warehouse in Europe so even though it’s not next day shipping, most stuff take no longer than a week sometime 3 days. I do remember the time when everything took a month or more.
Their app, though… Designed by a fucking lunatic, and the amount of scammy shit in there is astounding. Like products showing for $3 but when checking the product you realize the $3 is for an accessory and the product shown in the picture cost 20 times that. Most products have 3 or 4 variants which can be completely different items. There are literally no way to easily know what you’re buying without carefully trying to decipher broken English and voluntary confusing description.
Yeah, the app is batshit and has got much weirder over the past year or so. It’s now rammed full of competitions and ways to waste your time trying to get discounts that you’ll never actually achieve.
There’s also some really odd stuff on offer on there, which I kind of enjoy finding.
Still waiting on a video free version, like I originally ordered… probably $30/mo next year
I’m subscribed to Prime because I order too much shit and want to save on delivery costs. Those little Amazon lockers are too damn convenient for me.
If I watch their content, it’s via my PC with an ad block. I stop watching their shit the day I can’t block their ads because fuck’em.
Fwiw, I’ve been prime free now for almost three years. If you batch your orders, you can still get free shipping.
Not only that but if you’re looking at a high priced item the manufacturer will often ship it for free at the same price as amazon.
I still pirate shows I would have the right to stream 😂😅quality is better and no tracking 🤷🏻
And I will “ramp down” my Prime subscription.
“Amazon.
We’re evil, and we like it!”
Honestly, it’s one of the more mask off of all the big companies.
that’s why bezos doesn’t conceal his demonic laugh
seen here being informed that an Amazon truck ran over a child
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
“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 mean, I never used prime video even when it was as free, it’s selection was garbage even compared to Netflix which has been known to have nothing of value for a few years now. I don’t see how them adding /more/ ads is going to do anything but make other people come to the same conclusion I did.
