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.
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.
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)
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.
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 becauseAmazon 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.
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.
It already fucking has one!! And I have prime!! what the fuck
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"We aim to provide a meaningfully worse experience than the sailors of the seven seas are getting," Amazon insisted.
Meanwhile, me, pirating like a chad
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.
I have had prime for a decade and never once watched their content on their platform. WEB-DL baby
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Alternate Headline: “Amazon ruins Prime and forces their customers to cancel their Prime Memberships by putting advertisements into paid content”
Oh awesome, great for users. I hope they increase the price of prime again with it!
So ads, charging for shipping on many products, and costing $140 a year? Hmm.
Prime Video was my favourite =(
For the first time I was contemplating cancelling my prime subscription,but now I believe the contemplation is over.
This might make me reconsider my prime subscription. I already find prime video a bit lacking but combined with free shipping I find the service as a whole worth paying for, however I’m not sure I order enough for free shipping alone to be worth it
I'm supposed to pay them so that they can make more money off me? Uh... No. No, I'm good.
Crappy move Amazon. Real crappy
They already show ads though. Just for their own content after every episode.
It's made me stop using their service because it's annoying enough as it is.
Also those make me despise the advertised show and refuse to watch it already.
I was contemplating to subscribe to Prime as they have some interesting (for me) exclusive stuff, but was hesitating to add just another subscription.
Thank you, Amazon, to make the decision so easy - if even a paid subscription is riddled with ads, it is a 100% no-buy for me.
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