When this announcement was made, I canceled prime. I don’t even use Prime video. It’s the principle.
Don’t stop there. Don’t shop there anymore.
It’s harder to find certain things, but sleep is easier knowing you’re doing what you can by not contributing.
Piracy is the only option that won’t end this way. 🏴☠️
I did use it, and the music service. They destroyed both in less than a year, so I cancelled it the same day they announced ads in video. They already had an ad tier, called FreeVee and it was insufferable.
As a bonus, I now don’t buy anything off Amazon, since I no longer get the delivery benefits. Fuck that company.
At least 20% of my orders end up being fucked up anyway. It’s either counterfeit products an entirely wrong product with the UPC of what I ordered taped onto the box.
I ordered a Spyder Color calibrator last year (about 200 bucks), and got an iPhone 4 screen protector with the barcide of a Spyder printed on the box.
I ordered a laptop and it arrived gutted.
Amazon died for me when they changed from a retailer to a drop-shipper.
Cancled my prime because of this.
I don’t even watch their stuff, it was just the principal of the thing. I’m not really missing prime even for shipping because it’s caused me to shop less and only buy if I really really need it.
I recommend also not shopping with a company that actively blocks unionization efforts and has a nightmarish track record with climate policy.
I stopped shopping with amazon in 2012 and, yes, it takes a bit of time to find what you’re looking for at a more local retailler, and it might cost a tiny bit more, but again… Jeff Bezos man
I was watching fallout when it released, and out of 8 episodes only 4 had ads, and the ads were 30 seconds long before the episode started, and then nothing after that.
I’m not excusing them injecting ads, but at least it’s not like YouTube where it’s completely random
I will simply never pay + ads. Free and ads… Ok. I’ll fight you if your ads are obnoxious.
But, as soon as I’m paying for a service I will never accept even a 1sec ad.
You never had cable tv?
Yes, 20 years ago. Not sure what idiotic point you’re trying to make.
If you can’t figure out their fairly obvious point maybe they’re not the “idiotic” one champ.
Try again.
STRAWMAN DENIED
Just fyi, you can pay for ad free prime video. What is bundled with the rest of prime at no extra cost includes ads.
No. I had prime. Then they raised the price. I was like ok… THEN they were like we need an extra 1.99 or you’ll have to watch ads on top of the prime price.
That was the end of prime for me.
Face it, it’s not like cable and taxis were very consumer friendly anyways.
But were they more worker friendly than the current models? Because the new things are getting just as consumer hostile.
That’s the whole point of the post. They’re making things shit again, just like cable and taxis.
Yeah, and benefiting fewer people.
Won’t find many people shedding tears for the legacy cable companies or the legacy taxi industry. Two of the most hated industries before they got disrupted.
I may be an outlier, but I liked old taxis you order by a phonecall more than drivers juggling five different apps and coming to your place with an according delay for they try to be a delivery guy and a taxist for many companies just to keep a positive balance; cable was great in Russia too, for one Discovery channel alone could completely capture the day of a young teen like me, unlike what it is now. YMMV.
Did your phone call taxis actually show up close to on time? Almost every person I’ve talked to about them had the same experience of them often being hours late if they came at all with no notification of the delay. Any time you called dispatch they’d say they’re on their way.
There was nothing more anxiety inducing than waiting for a cab you scheduled when you have a flight to make, because about half the time they just wouldn’t show up.
It’s so baffling that even american cities often don’t make it feasible to get to and from the airport by public transport, that’s the one destination where no one in their right mind is ever going to drive themselves to.
In an even slightly sane world all american cities would at the very least have usable bus services for getting to and from the airport, if nothing else.
and this is why we should push for taxis to be replaced by public transport and carshare services.
If you can drive, carshares are just better than taxis in every single way unless you specifically need to not drive yourself for some reason, and good public transport is just always better.
Oh fuck off with this. Don’t victimize cable companies. They charged an insane amount and offered no innovation. $100+ a month for live TV that had more commercials than actual content is still a shit deal.
Streaming was great until everyone decided they wanted a piece of it. Fragmentation of the market drove enshitification.
They aren’t victimizing them, they are saying streaming companies are turning into them
Reinventing cable and reinvigorating piracy.
I thank the one who record the show and upload it. You have my respect.
I will never be as big a hero as the uploaders. I humbly thank them by downloading and seeding for months on end. It’s small but I do what I can!
I always think of these heroes. Their hard work will never go unnoticed
