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Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free
(www.theverge.com)
In a word: yarrrrr
this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2023
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Other than Good Omens, and Grand Tour I guess, what's even on Prime Video that's not elsewhere?
“The boys” and a possible “fallout”
It's mind boggling to see the volume of content Amazon has produced that nobody cares about. Rings of Power was $89 million per episode. Citadel was $42 million per episode. There are solutions other than, "Higher fees".
But Upload and The Boys are pretty good.
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My parents still watch cable and the odd time I've seen an ad for some other service advertised as only 12/mo with ads or something like that. Is that supposed to sound good to anyone. All these shit corporations need to get fucked.
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I've already canceled my Amazon prime subscription. I'm just waiting for it to expire in March
If the price was slightly higher and it'd remove ads on twitch, I might buy it
Presently, every time i dive into az video i find nothing and that my time spent was in vain... so now they want me to pay even more for this added misery? Easy decision... I'm out.
*unless you're not a customer
Amazon replacements:
- Audiobooks: Libro.fm (no DRM)
- eBooks: eBooks.com (specifically, their DRM-free section)
- Shopping: basically any major online retailer's website
- Electronics: System76 (for gaming machines), ThinkPenguin (for FOSS machines)
- Groceries: your local grocer, lol.
As for video streaming, it's going to take a breakup of the Big Tech monopolies via revival of anti-trust laws to fix that. Hear the first chapter of The Internet Con (skip to 2m5s) by Cory Doctorow for more on that.
There is no change to the current price of your Prime membership. We will also offer a new ad-free option for an additional $2.99 per month* that you can sign up for here.
Then there is a price change you damn dimwit, you just gave the shitty tier the same pricing as the old normal tier, and amped up the normal tier by $3.00. I absolutely hate the wording for this, you just know it was to be able to not release the ad membership at a lower price.
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.