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books ,

Can I just get free shipping and opt out of video?

Chestnut ,

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

GregorGizeh ,

I don’t use Amazon much anymore anyway, because the products are overwhelmed with cheap, poor quality trash you couldn’t peddle on alibaba and completely worthless, largely faked reviews and ratings. I order once or twice a year some replacement cable or adapter I can’t find anywhere else reasonably quick, but that’s pretty much it, so canceling over this ad bullshit doesn’t really hurt me much.

Next on the list is my Netflix sub, which I largely use just for oldtrek reruns as second screen background noise while I use my computer. I could probably, uh, procure those shows fairly easy, or splurge on a collectors edition and would still save money.

Hadriscus , (edited )

Go ahead, I did the same and I really don’t miss Netflix. I should also mention I have crappy internet, so it’s much better/easier to just download good quality vidéo files overnight than sit through a constantly-buffering 240p stream

VoilaChihuahua ,

If it’s available where you are PlutoTV is free and has a Star Trek channel. You don’t get to pick the shows and it’s only original and tng, but you can leave it on for days with almost as much Star Trek as the average fan could want…

Rolando ,

Check your local public libary, a lot of them have DVDs you can check out for free.

Dehydrated ,

Sail the seven seas!

generic ,
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Other than Good Omens, and Grand Tour I guess, what’s even on Prime Video that’s not elsewhere?

polographer ,

“The boys” and a possible “fallout”

MrSqueezles ,

It’s mind boggling to see the volume of content Amazon has produced that nobody cares about. Rings of Power was $89 million per episode. Citadel was $42 million per episode. There are solutions other than, “Higher fees”.

But Upload and The Boys are pretty good.

nyakojiru ,
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Stremio + Torrentio

madcaesar ,

I wish delivery / video was separate because I’d cancel immediately.

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

thecookingsenpai ,
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It’s just dystopic

HootinNHollerin ,

Canceled

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.

ipkpjersi ,

Man, the enshitification is really taking over.

_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

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.

t0m5k1 ,
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oooh yay more content to collect from torrents. Bye Bye Prime.

A_Random_Idiot ,

Enshitification continues to march ever boldly onward.

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