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croobat ,
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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.

restingboredface ,

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.

catbaba ,

Pirate services are cheaper and have better apps

Tetcher ,

Start? In the UK here and it has always had ads. Even on paid

mongo ,

No it doesn’t, it runs a trailer for something else before but I’ve never had ads mid program

cybermass ,

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/4845eea5-017e-485b-8a4b-f069f2e3db8b.gif

lambda ,
@lambda@programming.dev avatar

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…

A_Random_Idiot ,

Enshitification continues to march ever boldly onward.

t0m5k1 ,
@t0m5k1@lemmy.world avatar

oooh yay more content to collect from torrents. Bye Bye Prime.

Apprehensive ,

Sounds like a great time to cancel.

johannesvanderwhales ,

If 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.

_number8_ ,

streaming has absolutely no future. if they keep pulling shit like this it’s going to decline even faster. i suppose it’s more about sucking off advertisers than it is pleasing customers, too…if you’re going to fail anyway why can’t you at least make a positive difference in the world?

HiddenLychee ,

Are their profits going down?

wagoner ,

It will be like the Netflix exodus, the reddit exodus, etc. They’ll make more money. The best you can do is be true to yourself and not participate if you don’t want to.

whofearsthenight ,

streaming has absolutely no future.

Streaming isn’t going anywhere, and if anything will likely continue to grow for as cable dies off. It’s just going to consolidate and get shittier (ads) as basically things move back to a model more cable-like. Piracy will probably ramp back to like levels for music in the early 2000’s, but it will remain a niche. Amazon specifically will see blowback for this, but it’s unlikely to move many off of Prime since it’s sort of a tertiary benefit to having a Prime membership, and even if it’s all you got for your Prime membership, it’s still one of the cheapest streaming services.

Zevlen ,

We need open source streaming or something… Ya kno?

Ppl should make their own YouTube Amazon / Google companies or else we shall all perish do to advertisements

ipkpjersi ,

Man, the enshitification is really taking over.

chitak166 ,

The mods removed my comment with a link to a great free streaming site with the reason “don’t link directly to pirated content.” (great censorship!)

I don’t see that in the rules, so I guess it’s one of those “mystery” rules they can just make up on the spot.

Anyways, you can find free streaming sites here: rentry.co/megathread-movies-and-tv#streaming

I recommend using fmovies. Make sure you have Adnauseam or uBlock Origin installed.

ipkpjersi ,

Gotta love phantom rules, just make it up as you go along.

HootinNHollerin ,

Canceled

thecookingsenpai ,
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It’s just dystopic

Resol ,
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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?

pl_woah ,

It’s the Hulu model

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