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[–] Alpha71@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I only watched grand tour anyway, but I can't cancel it since my mother loves the frees shipping.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years 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

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years 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 2 years 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.

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How would they show ads to me if I don't use their services?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

The TV side of Amazon Prime is functionally free. And its not like I'm going to cancel the service when what I really use it for is mail-order retail shopping.

So I'll pirate their smattering of good shows and they'll tell advertisers I watch their stupid ads. Everyone gets to play pretend and the wheels of commerce will continue to turn.

[–] auroraborealiz@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago

Lol time to unprime

[–] lambda@programming.dev -1 points 2 years 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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