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- television@lemmy.world
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- television@lemmy.world
Hmmm maybe it’s time to solicit that VPN that doesn’t collect logs and is shady enough to accept cash payment…
Did they ever ramp down?
Just in time for me to have already cancelled my Prime membership last month. I’ve also not purchased from Amazon at all since then. Plan working as intended?!
I do have a prime account as do use Amazon, but we haven’t watched a second of prime TV since they put ads in the included video subscription.
I watch their content, I just dont pay them for it
🎶We’re rascals and scoundrels, we’re villains and knaves Drink up me hearties, yo ho We’re devils and black sheep, we’re really bad eggs Drink up me hearties, yo ho Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me🎶
I will ramp down my use of amazon prime
Hmm, unfortunately I can’t go negative.
Get an RF jammer and block your neighbors’ wifi
I won’t. At least not via TPB.
What do they even have that’s worth watching? It’s mostly garbage unless you’re into critical role. The boys shows? Oh no my poor hard drive space is going to be swamped with prime video mkvs lol
Attention subscribers! We will be making your experience worse going forward! We’re not even going to soften our language to make it seem like we’re doing you a favor! More ads for everyone!
That’s okay, I’ll ramp up my piracy of Amazon-exclusive shows in 2025 too.
How many shows do they produce that are even worth mentioning let alone watching?
There’s quite a few worth watching besides what’s already been mentioned.
- Patriot
- Bosch
- Goliath
- The Night Manager
- Sneaky Pete
- Reacher
- Jack Ryan
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith
- Good Omens
- The Man In The High Castle
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
The Boys, Fallout, Vox Machina, Invincible? Although most aren’t directly produced by Amazon itself. The Expanse if we want to count the hosting and the fact that it still got cancelled.
Clarkson’s Farm. And until recently, The Grand Tour.
Can’t think of any others from the last few years.
There’s still one last Grand Tour episode coming out
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Off the top of my head, the only one that I’ve watched in recent memory was Fallout.
Still waiting on a video free version, like I originally ordered… probably $30/mo next year
[When launched] Prime Video with ads was given a “very light ad load,” providing subscribers “gentle entry into advertising that has exceeded customers expectations in terms of what the ad experience would be like." The executive pointed out that Prime Video with ads doesn’t show commercials in the middle of content. That could change next year.
Planned enshittification a la boiling frogs.
The executive pointed out that Prime Video with ads doesn’t show commercials in the middle of content. That could change next year.
So regular TV is designed around the ads.
Cliff hangers before ads are done not only for the story, but to keep you there through the ad to get the outcome to the cliffhanger.
That partially went away with the no ad streaming.
Now that shitty behavior is going to come back.
Now that shitty behavior is going to come back.
Of course not. Streaming sites are far too lazy for that. They’ll just cram the commercial into the middle of the show with no regard for the story. It’s the only way they’ll be able to put ads in the middle of shows not made to have ads.
Light my arse, from the start they’ve interrupted with adverts for their own crap making it barely tolerable. Even on the adfree tier.
Canceled and no intention of ever going back. Measuring your ad load by American standards doesn’t work when your competition is netflix and iPlayer.
That’s not even true, they interrupted episode 2 of Rings of Power for me.
I’ll just pirate their shit. I’ll pirate it so hard and I’ll do it with both middle fingers in the air. But not literally, I would definitely need both hands to pirate their content.
We still need one person with a membership to download and post it all. Maybe we should start a fund to support their ever increasing membership costs…
So are executives born with an asshole where their mouth belongs or do they surgically put it on when you get the gig?
Humans, being deuterostomes, have an embryological stage where we are just anuses.
Some humans never develop past that.
Well, guess it’s time to get an eye patch and a pet parrot
Do you know any sea shanties to go along with that?
What shall we do with an ad filled service? What shall we do with an ad filled service? What shall we do with an ad filled service? Before we go crazy!
Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Before we go crazy!
Cancel our subscription with greatest haste now! Cancel our subscription with greatest haste now! Cancel our subscription with greatest haste now! Before we go crazy!
Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Before we go crazy!
Search for the show on pirate websites! Search for the show on pirate websites! Search for the show on pirate websites! Before we go crazy!
Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Before we go crazy!
Yo ho ho and a terabyte of NAS!
Aye!
I have already ramped up on that one on their last ad ramp up.
I can’t stand it.
Deeper into the high seas!
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.
Is it weird that I have prime but I pirate still?
It’s not just a good experience…
I do the same. Their video app was shit before the ads.
Prime Video is easily the worst mainstream streaming service. Fuck all for selection, movies that you think are available cost money, and the add-on channels only have select episodes or seasons, never full shows.
Yup, I had it for a bit when we used Prime, but the experience sucked so I naturally just didn’t use it. Then I realized I’m only using shipping and Twitch subs, and that certainly wasn’t worth the cost, so I cancelled.
Screw 'em.
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 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.