Amazon wants us to learn how to safely pirate? We’ll ok if that’s what they want.
Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free
Submitted 10 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/26/24015595/amazon-prime-video-ads-coming-january-29
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FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world 10 months ago
hperrin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s a good thing I recently switched to piracy.
BulbasaurBabu@lemmings.world 10 months ago
Ahoy matey
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Enshitification continues to march ever boldly onward.
foggy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Say less.
SaltySalamander@kbin.social 10 months ago
My Prime membership is up in March. I've already decided to not renew it, since they decided to cancel The Peripheral. Had I not already made that decision, this change would have made it for me anyway.
XanXic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And this is how I found out The Peripheral was cancelled 😭
Stay strong
mob@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah wtf. I was looking forward to season 2
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I also cancelled, mainly because “prime” shipping is meaningless now. But the addition of ads is the cherry on top.
Merlin404@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How about i stop paying? Then what lol
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Merlin404@lemmy.world 10 months ago
True, but somewhere there most be a line, and from what ive read, more and more are closing in on that
unreasonabro@lemmy.world 10 months ago
time to stop paying for that shit
oDDmON@lemmy.world 10 months ago
USENET is my happy place.
7u5k3n@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is the way
BynaD@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I had never heard of usenet, this is eye opening thank you! I have been thinking about reverting back to torrents, might have to try this out first though.
Mythnubb@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I looked into usenet but I first tried RealDebrid and it’s been great. I personally have went with Alldebrid
rockerface@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Taking notes right now
charonn0@startrek.website 10 months ago
Looks like I’m cancelling.
Resol@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hmm, I wonder why they don’t make the ad-supported version free like, uh I dunno, Spotify, or YouTube
Oh, “Lemmy” guess, greed, isn’t it?
samokosik@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
The moment when pirating a movie gives you better experience than actually paying for it.
viking@infosec.pub 10 months ago
So, always?
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No there was a period of time where it wasn’t the case.
AlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.social 10 months ago
Hoist the sails.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 10 months ago
There are catalog is so shit that I don’t even know what plays on Amazon. Back when they refused to make an Android video app I just got all their crap from other means. I’ve had prime for years just for the shipping I’ve never watched a video through their service.
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 10 months ago
It seems like every streaming service catalog is deteriorating. Almost every time I’ve looked up a movie to watch on justwatch, they’re only available for rental/“purchase.” I’m done paying my hard earned money for dogshit services.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have better things to do than sit in front of the TV for hours on end.
I hear that. I watch way less than I used to. I’ve also made it a point to stay out of other people’s algorithms as much as I can. I only pull exactly what I want from youtube then go do something else. You can’t doom scroll Lemmy because you run out of doom after 30-40 minutes.
My guilty pleasure is still binging certain series, but I try to wait to watch stuff until it’s canceled or at the very least until the season is over and I can just catch up in a weekend.
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Oh well.
I
hate
ads. I will gladly let go of anything I lose when I drop it.
Ads have been designed by psychologists to be as Intrusive and stimulating as possible.
I barely watch anything anyway, so good bye TV, I’ve suffered thee long enough
thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Thankfully, much of Amazons content shows up on Usenet so I can just download the ad-free versions there and then watch it.
lemmylommy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yarrr, this be some bullshit.
BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Capitalism marches onward.
Apprehensive@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sounds like a great time to cancel.
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Video is the reason you have prime, sure. Personally the shipping is still the reason I have it. I don’t really use the video service at all. Frankly I wish they’d unbundle all of the stuff and let me pay for just shipping.
Got_Bent@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This year the shipping has gone from two days from ordering to two days from processing to two weeks to maybe we’ll just lose the order entirely.
Add to that that so many of the sellers seem to have migrated over from the eBay “hey look at this cheap knockoff crap that fell off a truck” crowd, and I’m just not seeing the benefit anymore.
My renewal is a week from today. I think I’m going to cancel by then.
I really don’t know where I go from here vis a vis online ordering. Probably just use my boss’ account when there’s something that I just can’t get anywhere else.
pikmeir@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No point in paying for Prime Video when other services like Tubi or even Pluto TV offer free movies/shows with ads built-in. When I realized that it was easy to cancel.
rynzcycle@kbin.social 10 months ago
Bummer. Not because of the extra $3, honestly I'll probably just pay it. But because until now Prime programming has been able to operate with a certain freedom. I know 0 people with prime for the video (as opposed to the free delivery) so they were willing to take risks with the shows.
Solos and Tales from the Loop are both amazing works of art that would never have shown up on network TV, or Netflix which would much rather make cheap mass appeal shows with little depth. Even more shows with wider appeal (e.g. The Expanse) might not survive the TV Executive mindset now that they have a reason to care about the number of views as a primary metric, over user happiness.
And honestly, it all baffles me, I will gladly subscribe to a streaming service for one great show. Produce 3 or 4 a year and I'm subscribed for good. If I wanted an endless string of medicore baking reality shows, I'd get cable again.
AquaTofana@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ugh yes. I canceled my Amazon Prime like 5 years ago, and swore off Amazon completely until they started streaming Vox Machina. Sucks that’s the service Critical Role went with, but it is what it is.
I should check out Tales from the Loop too… and cancel AppleTV now that Ted Lasso is over.
cybersandwich@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Appletv has some of the best content out there. They may be the last one standing for me at this rate.
Silo, severance, invasion, foundation, slow horses (though this latest season is pretty meh), for all mankind, and there is another one I’m forgetting.
I think companies like apple and Amazon had?(have) a huge advantage when it comes to their streaming services and content. They don’t need to make money on them. They can take risks. They can let a show build. Netflix kills shows too fast. Why? Because they don’t have a billion dollar business that can cash flow content that might not be hugely popular right out of the gate.
It sucks Amazon is going down this path. If they put ads I’ll pay the $3, but I’m cancelling my music subscription with them to pay for it $10/mo.
FeetinMashedPotatoes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Prime’s entire UI already sucks dick. I can’t even tell which shows/movies I can watch without having to pay, rent, or subscribe. Like mfer I’m paying to watch whatever Amazon has to offer. I only use it for The Boys, Reacher, and Invincible. Even with how much I would love to support these shows, fuck Amazon.
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onlinepersona@programming.dev 10 months ago
Amazon Prime currently costs $14.99 each month or $139 annually. (Prime Video can be subscribed to individually for $8.99/month.) The new charge for ad-free streaming would bring Prime to just under $18, and would push standalone Prime Video to just under $12.
So you’re going to pay for ads? Why even sell such a service?
XanXic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Probably going to work. Just another company trying to wring money from their user base since they can’t reasonably grow. So many people were like “oh I’m cancelling Netflix if I can’t share it” and then it was record sign ups for them and overall more money.
They are doing this right before The Boys comes back on and somewhat during Invincibles part 2 airing. People will be annoyed and pay the upcharge.
And like me pirating those still won’t change much since I already was.
restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
FYI here is a site with instructions on how to cancel your prime membership since it’s not the easiest thing to find.
I was able to cancel on the mobile app using this same process.
Beardedsausag3@kbin.social 10 months ago
And bring that keg of mead on board with ya, ya dastardly scallywags 🏴☠️
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
As soon as I saw this I cancelled immediately. I’ve been a member since, um, ever?
Skkorm@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ha, I just cancelled my prime. Nailed it.
Tetcher@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Start? In the UK here and it has always had ads. Even on paid
mongo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
No it doesn’t, it runs a trailer for something else before but I’ve never had ads mid program
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah we get that in the great white north. A immediately Skippable ad for a different show on prime. That is fine by me, however ads like on so many other services will mean I cancel and Maybe setup a plex.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Only for itself. Then they added Freevee stuff which had a load of obnoxious ads in. Now they’re adding that to everything, unless you pay extra.
Cancel. Amazon are a cancer.
books@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Can I just get free shipping and opt out of video?
Mamertine@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You know, they’ll ship stuff to your house for free as long as each order is over $35 (or maybe it’s $50?). It’s just that you have to plan ahead a bit more because it’s no longer the “guaranteed” 2 day shipping.
I quit prime because that guaranteed delivery date was frequently not the actual delivery date.
HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I quit prime because prices for item + delivery were still worse than ebay even when I had prime.
Chestnut@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You can’t opt out because it’s included in prime
You don’t have to use it, though, and you don’t have to pay for the ads
Also, ad blockers seem to work pretty well with prime video