Arethusa
@Arethusa@lemmy.world
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
I didn’t understand this for a long time myself. And I can’t rightly remember when I first learned about this sort of thing. But once I did, information just seemed to flow to me from multiple directions. Maybe look up classic tactics around sales and marketing, then deceptive, yet typical, psychological sales and marketing practices. There’s a book on credit cards I enjoyed years ago “How to Take Advantage of the People Who Are Trying to Take Advantage of You: 50 Ways to Capitalize on the System” by JSB Morse (Though long story short , avoid debt and credit cards). One video on YouTube turned me off of buying ink cartridges once I found out what they truly cost versus the exorbitant amount they sell them for. Capital rip offs.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
Owning my media is what’s significant and I do in multiple ways that have been listed. It’s not an issue which one I use. What’s important is it not being locked up by a corporation after I’ve “bought” it.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
Another DVD plus is never having it go pixelated or buffering while watching due to some streamer error or widespread cloud downtime or other issue. That one time purchase and watching it whenever I like for as long as I like, and not some corporation, is an impeccable experience.
- Comment on Netflix is planning to raise prices… again 1 year ago:
Netflix’s lowered revenue growth is the highlight. That’s what they and their investors focus on, with subscriber satisfaction being an afterthought. The price hikes haven’t shown any effect on that downward trend either. But hey, keep hiking I say. Fires burn bigger when fuel is added and these people can’t differentiate water from gasoline. Having washed my hands of this company, I’m looking forward to further scrambling when revenue growth is nil and then negative and the stock drops and drops and the corporatists wail.
- Comment on Meta wants to charge EU users $14 a month if they don't agree to personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram 1 year ago:
Sounds great. I stopped using Facebook years ago. This can only bring their demise faster.
- Comment on Netflix is planning to raise prices… again 1 year ago:
Sounds like Netflix is panicking and scrambling. The frequency of their subscription hikes increases and increases. Perhaps they think they can price hike their way out of the dissatisfaction they have delivered to subscribers. Keep trying Netflix, find that magic subscription price point that will surely cover for all the subscribers you’re shedding with your idiocy and will definitely not hasten your arrival to 0% revenue. Burn Netflix burn.
- Comment on Am I? Who knows 1 year ago:
This is exactly what I thought of. The wonder and awe of teleporters were forever lost to me and replaced by a Lovecraftian, world of Cthulhu-esque cosmic horror type dread. Let’s have some technological advances for bending time and space a la A Wrinkle In Time or Dune. Manipulate stuff that’s not my body.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
Gift cards and store credit = we keep your money.
The reality is that they didn’t give the customer back anything. It’s the usual corporate sales speak.
“50% off” and “Save $10” aren’t actually real either. $10 doesn’t appear in customer’s accounts after a purchase and customers often have no concept of what the item original cost before it was marked up and brought to market by the the corporation. It’s sales and marketing psychological games that many people can’t see through. $9.99/$59.99 is cheaper than $10.00/$60.00 true and people somehow feel better buying the former versus the latter as though that penny isn’t only a penny and they didn’t give the corporation the 99.99% of the money they wanted
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
Steam came to my mind with this situation as well. I assume the outcry would be loud if this happened there. But it gives another good reason to shift habits.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
Abusive is a perfect description. Exploitative too. I’ve always viewed store credit as a sucky refund policy. Offline. Whenever I discovered these, usually because I needed to return something, these shops lost my business.
And the above is not even the same situation when you really look at it. This person didn’t want to return something. They made a purchase they wanted to keep. Then Amazon just said, “oh, we’re repossessing that media and keeping your money. Feel free to use this store credit on something else for which we can repeat this scenario all over again at will. Have a great day!”
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
I’ve always felt uncomfortable about “buying” digital media that stays on a cloud. Vudu (Walmart) offers this as well as Google I believe. Renting digitally bothered me less because the notion that it’s temporary is inherent to renting. The above situation solidifies my concerns. I’ve “bought” some media this way but I will never do so again. Cancelled Netflix as of last month as well.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
Wow. This is why owning DVDs is better. And if you can’t buy, downloading via torrents. Imagine these bastards rolling up to your home and reclaiming a movie you physically purchased. We gave them too much power. Time to withdraw it. Convenience is not worth this shit. Get uncomfortable and get your entertainment away from these streamers who don’t give customers what they paid for.
- Comment on [Lemmy active users] 28th of September was the only day with more monthly active Lemmy users than the previous one, probably thanks to the release of Boost for Lemmy 1 year ago:
I created an account on Lemmy.world earlier this summer but it remained dormant for the most part because I tend to participate in these kinds of forums from my phone. It’s similar to a preference to watching movies and television shows on a television. I wasn’t streaming until apps and services became available to stream and watch directly on my TV. I just wasn’t going to watch on my phone or computer except once in a blue moon.
After experimenting with several apps, Boost for Reddit was what I preferred and used for a long while back there. As soon as Boost became available for Lemmy, the ease of participating here for me was as smooth as silk. For others that Boost was a fave with, it’s probably the same.
It’s great that activity is on the rise on alternatives such as Lemmy.
- Comment on Disney’s password-sharing crackdown has begun 1 year ago:
I first read the enshittification post during the Reddit blackout. It’s on point.
- Comment on Disney’s password-sharing crackdown has begun 1 year ago:
Ahh, may they join Netflix in their journey to 0% then negative revenue. These corporations look at their subscribers with disdain and assume no matter what they do, subscribers will be dumb enough to be treated poorly and still pay them. Netflix is losing subscribers who pay $16 - $20 and replacing them with those that pay half as much. Then they shout from the rooftops that they are gaining subscribers. They’ve set their trajectory towards their doom. Watching them all burn will be great.