Prime is adding ads to their streaming service

totallynotfbi , 5 months ago

Looks like Amazon wants to close off this year with yet another rent-seeking episode. Thankfully I don’t use Amazon, but my parents still pay for Prime specifically for their streaming service, so this is going to be very annoying for them :/

jjlinux , 5 months ago

This is one of many reasons why I’m selling my Kindle Paperwhite and getting a Pocketbook Ink Pad 3 Color. Amazon is the Apple of retail, which drips down to even the ebooks. I do, however, have to consider my wife’s comfort when ordering stuff, but otherwise, ready to pull the plug on Bezoz and his gang.

Appoxo , 5 months ago

Regarding the shipping cost:
Just collect things to buy until you are over the treshold. Helped me with overbuying stuff I don’t even really need.
If you are moatly in it for the shipping: Just stop. You give them more money through that than paying for shipping.

tkohldesac , 5 months ago

Hearing about this got me to reevaluate whether I needed Prime and I ended up cancelling altogether. Just a heads up, if you cancel mid-subscription (I was on the yearly plan) you get the option to cancel service immediately and refund what you didn't use. I was supposed to re-up in May and ended up getting $63 refunded.

littlecolt , 5 months ago

This year, I bought a Costco membership and ditched Prime. Fuck Amazon.

EmperorHenry , 5 months ago

If they need more money, they can just take about $2,000 USD per second from Bezos’ money. He makes over $3,000 USD per second.

I forgot to mention. over 99% of all online sales go through amazon. They don’t need to raise their prices.

Philo , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Freevee is Amazon prime video junior with ads, and that’s already free. WTF, is Amazon thinking or not thinking?

cupcakezealot , 5 months ago

$5 to my local pbs station a month and get passport = the only streaming service i need

variants , 5 months ago

A passport to leave the country?

Bongles , 5 months ago

I have it for the shipping otherwise I’d cancel. I’m certainly not watching the stuff on there with ads.

uriel238 , 5 months ago

The people on your man o’ war
Are treated worse than scum
I’m no flogging captain
And by God I’ve sailed with some
Come with me to Barbary
We’ll ply there up and down
Not quite exactly
In the service of the Crown

To lay with pretty women
To drink Madeira wine
To hear the rollers thunder
On a shore that isn’t mine

– Mr. Knofler Privateering

GnuLinuxDude , 5 months ago

I canceled Prime in 2021. The expedited shipping is nice and all but it really just felt like paying rent to someone I don’t like nor want or have to pay rent to.

mateomaui , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Everything worth seeing can be torrented anyway. I canceled a year ago and haven’t noticed a loss of anything as long as any orders are over $35 for free shipping.

Curious_Canid , 5 months ago

I wish I could just get Prime shipping and drop the video service. I may still drop the whole thing.

SuiXi3D , 5 months ago

Nothing quite like paying an annual fee to ensure that stuff you can’t be bothered to go to the store for are handled by a multitude of people who are systematically abused by their employer.

gigglehurtz , 5 months ago

I don’t know where you live, but around here stores only carry what most people buy. If you want something other than plain vanilla, you have to find it online.

Darkassassin07 , 5 months ago

Then take a look at the manufacturers website and see what retailers they use.

Many stores will also let you order items for pickup that they don’t normally stock at your local location. Ask a clerk or again, check their site.

CoreOffset , 5 months ago

You got hit with a bunch of down votes but it’s not incredibly hard to avoid Amazon, it’s just a little less convenient. Of course, it’s going to depend and vary based on where you are located.

Darkassassin07 , 5 months ago

Odd… This reply didn’t show up (in the thread or in my notifications) until just now.

catbaba , 5 months ago

Amazon – If you get a pee bottle your order is free!

Deiv , 5 months ago

This is essentially what’s happening, but instead of them lowering the prime fee and removing videos, they’re adding the additional fee to remove ads from the video service

SaltySalamander , 5 months ago

I'd already decided to cancel Prime when they cancelled The Peripheral after renewing it. Had I not, this decision would have made the choice for me.

charonn0 , 5 months ago

What does this mean for shows and movies that I purchased? Will they have ads unless I pony up? If I cancel Prime will I lose access to them?

SaltySalamander , 5 months ago

Nothing. No. No.