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I'm getting really tired of all this enshitification.

The moment each show got a pre-reel for another Amazon show this was clearly the path they where taking.

Already cancelled a good 6 months ago.

“We aim to have meaningfully fewer ads than linear TV and other streaming TV providers. No action is required from you, and there is no change to the current price of your Prime membership,”

The double-speak is relatively subtle, but it's always interesting to see how much work they put into gaslighting their customers:

• "No action is required from you..." - yes, Amazon hopes we do nothing, but Amazon unilaterally changed the assumptions underlying agreement, so "no action" is an acquiescence to a materially worse reality for us and a better one for Amazon.
• "...there is no change to the current price of your Prime membership" - yes, no additional dollars are required because Amazon is now selling our time and attention, but that is still a new "fee" we are paying.

Pretty gross, Amazon.

The mods removed my comment with a link to a great free streaming site with the reason "don't link directly to pirated content." (great censorship!)

I don't see that in the rules, so I guess it's one of those "mystery" rules they can just make up on the spot.

Anyways, you can find free streaming sites here: https://rentry.co/megathread-movies-and-tv#streaming

I recommend using fmovies. Make sure you have Adnauseam or uBlock Origin installed.

streaming has absolutely no future. if they keep pulling shit like this it's going to decline even faster. i suppose it's more about sucking off advertisers than it is pleasing customers, too....if you're going to fail anyway why can't you at least make a positive difference in the world?

oooh yay more content to collect from torrents. Bye Bye Prime.

Yeah, streaming services are losing the plot. I'm good lol.

Pirate services are cheaper and have better apps

If there are commercials, why should someone need an Amazon Prime membership at all? It becomes just like broadcast TV then, and they should just allow anyone to watch to maximize revenue. They have all this AWS infrastructure to deliver video, why not maximize the use of it?

Thanks for reminding me to cancel my prime.

I wish delivery / video was separate because I'd cancel immediately.

Oh look. Another reason for piracy.

Cancelled! Bye!

fuck this company, the only thing i bought on amazon was filament for my 3d-printers. now that i zeroed in on a brand, i can just buy it at their online store. goodbye amazon.

I don’t use Amazon much anymore anyway, because the products are overwhelmed with cheap, poor quality trash you couldn’t peddle on alibaba and completely worthless, largely faked reviews and ratings. I order once or twice a year some replacement cable or adapter I can’t find anywhere else reasonably quick, but that’s pretty much it, so canceling over this ad bullshit doesn’t really hurt me much.

Next on the list is my Netflix sub, which I largely use just for oldtrek reruns as second screen background noise while I use my computer. I could probably, uh, procure those shows fairly easy, or splurge on a collectors edition and would still save money.

Can I just get free shipping and opt out of video?

What a bunch of cunts. FFS, it is never enough. Their return policy sucks now, too. It used to be that if Amazon fucked up your order, they'd refund you and you could keep the product. It made ordering online a relatively risk-free proposition. Now, they won't refund you until you ship it back, even if it is their fuck up, which really kills the convenience factor. Plus, you get to over-pay for most things. What's not to love?

Amazon wants us to learn how to safely pirate? We'll ok if that's what they want.

It’s a good thing I recently switched to piracy.

My Prime membership is up in March. I've already decided to not renew it, since they decided to cancel The Peripheral. Had I not already made that decision, this change would have made it for me anyway.

time to stop paying for that shit

How about i stop paying? Then what lol

Hmm, I wonder why they don't make the ad-supported version free like, uh I dunno, Spotify, or YouTube

Oh, "Lemmy" guess, greed, isn't it?

The moment when pirating a movie gives you better experience than actually paying for it.

Sounds like a great time to cancel.

Probably going to work. Just another company trying to wring money from their user base since they can't reasonably grow. So many people were like "oh I'm cancelling Netflix if I can't share it" and then it was record sign ups for them and overall more money.

They are doing this right before The Boys comes back on and somewhat during Invincibles part 2 airing. People will be annoyed and pay the upcharge.

And like me pirating those still won't change much since I already was.

Man, the enshitification is really taking over.

Prime's entire UI already sucks dick. I can't even tell which shows/movies I can watch without having to pay, rent, or subscribe. Like mfer I'm paying to watch whatever Amazon has to offer. I only use it for The Boys, Reacher, and Invincible. Even with how much I would love to support these shows, fuck Amazon.

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FYI here is a site with instructions on how to cancel your prime membership since it's not the easiest thing to find.

I was able to cancel on the mobile app using this same process.

As soon as I saw this I cancelled immediately. I’ve been a member since, um, ever?