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oDDmON ,

USENET is my happy place.

7u5k3n ,

This is the way

BynaD ,

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.

rockerface ,

Taking notes right now

Mythnubb ,

I looked into usenet but I first tried RealDebrid and it’s been great. I personally have went with Alldebrid

FartsWithAnAccent ,
@FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world avatar

Yarrr, this be some bullshit.

rynzcycle ,

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 ,

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 ,

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.

AlwaysNowNeverNotMe ,
@AlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.social avatar

Hoist the sails.

nicetriangle ,

*unless you're not a customer

paraphrand ,

You guys should have the same reaction to all bad software news. It would be consistent.

xia ,

Presently, every time i dive into az video i find nothing and that my time spent was in vain… so now they want me to pay even more for this added misery? Easy decision… I’m out.

notannpc ,

Guess I’ll just start downloading that content too because I’m not paying you more for the same shit. I’d get rid of it altogether if it wasn’t just included as part of prime in general.

gaterush ,

I don’t have prime any longer and I don’t miss it, it’s overrated really. I don’t need stuff within 2 days all the time

KreekyBonez ,

I never use prime, and stuff usually shows up in 2 or 3 days, anyway. They optimized their shipping abilities, and then convinced some people to pay more for it.

yamanii ,
@yamanii@lemmy.world avatar

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

Blackmist ,

It’s not really free shipping. It’s built into Amazon’s astronomical fees. It’s practically impossible to make sense of it, I had to use their fee calculator tool.

Their “most favoured nation policy” (meaning you can’t sell your stuff cheaper than you sell on Amazon) should be flat out illegal.

ReallyActuallyFrankenstein ,

“We aim to have meaningfully fewer ads than linear TV and other streaming TV providers. No action is required from you, and there is no change to the current price of your Prime membership,”

The double-speak is relatively subtle, but it’s always interesting to see how much work they put into gaslighting their customers:

  • “No action is required from you…” - yes, Amazon hopes we do nothing, but Amazon unilaterally changed the assumptions underlying agreement, so “no action” is an acquiescence to a materially worse reality for us and a better one for Amazon.
  • “…there is no change to the current price of your Prime membership” - yes, no additional dollars are required because Amazon is now selling our time and attention, but that is still a new “fee” we are paying.

Pretty gross, Amazon.

trafficnab ,

The enshittification will continue until profit margins improve

geekworking ,

Enshitification won’t stop until the frogs realize that they are being boiled to death and jump out of the pot.

cybersandwich ,

Or until we get back to 0% interest rates that these companies could get for the past 10 years. The free money dried up!

KISSmyOS ,

Hey, I want free money, too.

Plopp ,

The enshittification will continue until the demand for profit is removed*

mjhelto ,

…demand for constant growth is removed.*

peopleproblems ,

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

ikidd ,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

I have Prime and have never actually used it. I still watch Amazon shows, but I’ll be fucked if I use their shit interface or expose myself to their datamining to do it. Let alone watch fucking ads.

Piracy is a UX issue.

UselesslyBrisk ,

I tried to use their UX. Its bad. And the worst is I fell asleep watching something like Project Bluebook once. And the Prime Reccomendations streamed a SHITLOAD of alien conspiracy content while i slept. It ruined the recs etc. And you cant delete the primary account profile…only the sub-profiles.

Frankly i only go on it to see what I should maybe load into Sonarr/Radarr at this point. fuck em.

intensely_human ,

So you absorbed a bunch of alien conspiracy stuff while you were sleeping?

ramjambamalam ,

I was watching Yellowstone on Prime back in 2021, before they moved it to a premium tier, and the audio was always out of sync when using Prime Video, so I had to adjust the audio sync latency, and remember to switch it back when watching other content.

After a while, I gave up and just watched it on my Plex server instead. I could also use the Watch Together feature to watch it synchronously with friends, a feature not supported by Prime Video.

In my case, the piracy (if you call it that, when I was at the time a Prime member) was absolutely a UX issue, not a price issue.

N00dle ,
@N00dle@lemmy.world avatar

I’d forgotten they were gonna start doing this. I’ve got Amazon for the shipping there video has always been leaking. I use it maybe twice a year. They’re probably trying to delay a price increase to Amazon and increase revenue.

rockerface ,

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

seth ,

When they announced this, it was the last straw for me with Amazon that caused me to finally cancel Prime, which I’ve paid for annually since it was first offered. Things I’ve been complacently shrugging off until now:

  • their delivery misses/delays have gotten consistently worse over the past year and a half
  • they screwed up my combined music library when they changed Amazon Music, which was working great before the change
  • Audible keeps pushing up-sale subscriptions I don’t want, and is inconsistently working with Android Auto now (but was fine until about a year ago)
  • Prime Video ads and up-sale “channels”
  • book editions (especially textbook editions): they limit the ability to re-sell old editions of textbooks when newer editions are currently in print. Many classes specify old editions because that’s what the curricula and syllabi have built around and the profs can take responsibility for validating the content. This is a serious issue with the number of errors that manage to get past editors for math and science texts, and they publish new editions for cash grabs when no actual new or useful information has been added.

They really don’t have to do much to keep me complacent tbh - just stop breaking things that already work(ish). Find whatever the deliverable requirements were in like 2015 and just return to those.

Three_word_reply ,

I am in the exact same boat. The removal of “free” rotating streaming video content and limiting it to only Amazon funded shows with “free with prime” videos being hosted by 3rd party apps (fuck off, freevee) was bad enough but to start showing ads was the final straw

I cancelled my prime today. $150/yr. I can wait a few extra days for the things I need to order

FlashMobOfOne ,
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world avatar

Same.

Should have done it sooner.

mercator_rejection ,

I went through this a couple years ago. Decided Jeff Bezos does not need any more money, cancelled prime. Funny this was that most things ship the same as always, get them in like 2 or 3 days.

In fact, most other online retailers offer similar free 2 day shipping to stay competitive and I usually find stuff of Amazon first.

intensely_human ,

I can wait a few extra days for the things I need to order

Amazon’s already provided that. Their delivery went from stellar to shit.

RufusFirefly ,
@RufusFirefly@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t stream much but being disabled, I can’t get to the store so I do order stuff from Amazon. What I’ve seen in the last few years is an influx of Chinese sellers with tons and tons of garbage and all of the reviews are completely worthless, of course.

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