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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 11 months ago

Fortunately a VPN is like 30 quid a year. Jellyfin and Radarr are my jam now.

I've kept Netflix and Disney+ for now. I was looking to cancel one for a while, and Amazon made that an easy choice. There's fucking nothing on it at the best of times.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

Just before our yearly subscription ends. I’m busy ripping and saving what we like for the next month and finally canceling prime this year, this is just the added motivation to remember how much it sucks.

[–] Alpha71@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

eh, I don't really care. It's a gimme with prime. TBH I rarely watch anything on it. The only thing I'm watching right now is the current season of Reacher.

[–] Beardedsausag3@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

And bring that keg of mead on board with ya, ya dastardly scallywags 🏴‍☠️

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Earlier this year, Amazon announced plans to start incorporating ads into movies and TV shows streamed from its Prime Video service, and now the company has revealed a specific date when you’ll start seeing them: it’s January 29th.

No action is required from you, and there is no change to the current price of your Prime membership,” the company wrote.

Customers have the option of paying an additional $2.99 per month to keep avoiding advertisements.

The rest of the email summarizes the many benefits of a Prime subscription — no doubt an attempt to keep customers from cancelling over this decision.

The move comes as competing streaming services continue to raise subscription rates across the board.

The monthly cost of Amazon Prime isn’t changing, but if you want to preserve the same experience you have today starting on January 29th, you’ll end up paying more.


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[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

The only reason I still have Prime Video is because of a super weird bug where it tries to charge an already expired card. Somehow, it doesn't register as expired and I can just "renew" it every month

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 0 points 11 months ago

its been fun watching all these streaming bullets whiz by me and my giant smokin' NAS. i feel like neo!

but really, who didnt see this coming the day they announced their service?

[–] Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 11 months ago

If the price was slightly higher and it'd remove ads on twitch, I might buy it

[–] Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Fuzzy_Dunlop@lemm.ee -1 points 11 months ago

I've been trying, but for some reason, it will not recognize my HD. I'be reformatted my drive...tried different drives...I don't know what else to do.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The only reason I ever had Prime was free shipping, then I realized as soon as I bundled my orders to be over a certain dollar figure I STILL got free shipping, I kicked Prime to the curb.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee -1 points 11 months ago

You can even get a free week of prime for 2 dollars by just not giving-in which you can then immediately cancel and get ovre and over and over and over again.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's like a second golden age of internet piracy, and it's happening because streaming over saturated itself just like cable lmao

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[–] auroraborealiz@sopuli.xyz 0 points 11 months ago

Lol time to unprime

[–] lambda@programming.dev -1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Honestly. I'm surprised they haven't done this sooner. Prince video is included with a normal prime subscription. So, with some of the originals they've produced and paying for the rights to many movies/shows, they are probably bleeding money with this service..

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[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social -1 points 11 months ago

*unless you're not a customer

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