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So the thing prime users are already paying for and already have pay walls to certian content is going to get more monetised?
Colour me shocked.
They are the worst streaming service. They looked at cable TV and said “this is perfect” while being apparently oblivious that most people who pay for streaming services HATE cable TV.
The only thing that made Prime worth it was shipping, but then Amazon decided they wanted to own the whole shipping process and stopped using reliable shippers and brought it all in house and now its a dice roll if you are going to get your package or if its going to be lost, and half the time its damaged.
I order anywhere else now and canceled prime.
It’s disappointing but I think prime has the most entertaining original content of all the streaming apps at the moment.
So first the two day shipping became priority shipping.
Now the limited included movies and tv shows are getting ads.
All while the price of Prime goes up every year.
Tell me again how Prime is worth it?
I quit prime after the last prime day and have saved so much money. It’s really something how much influence that subscription had on me, and how cancelling it changed my buying habits.
The unlimited full resolution photo storage is what keeps me subscribed. Everything else is just extra.
The Prime shipping I don’t really care about; it’s easy enough to just wait until the cart hits the free shipping spend. Prime streaming was fine, previously. We like a few of their shows, but it’s just as convenient to pirate then now that they’re adding ads.
Is there a better option for cheap off-site unlimited photo storage?
Yet another example of people who pay for the content getting shafted while pirates are better off.
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Hey hey hey HDDs aren’t recently free!
I know you’re probably joking but I recently picked up a 4TB WD Red Plus for $70… the drive isn’t perfect but that price blew my mind, great for storing simple media.
As far as I’m concerned, the presence of commercial “breaks” makes a movie unwatchable. A good writer, director, or editor carefully manages things like pace, timing, and emotional impact. Interrupting that with an ad for car insurance completely destroys the mood, and cheapens the entire experience. I don’t care if commercials are “limited”. They shouldn’t be there at all.
I only tolerate commercials if I’ve already seen a movie a million times, and I’m only half paying attention anyway.
I remember back in the day, they at least inserted the commercials by hand and usually put them in during a scene transition or something to not fuck up the pace.
The Internet and streaming services are fucking lazy and just insert ads every X seconds or whatever, which can often lead to an ad being played mid fucking sentence. It’s so much worse than watching a movie on public access cable with ads and censorship. At least those ads are carefully edited in, and not thrown about willy-nilly. And the censorship can be just as funny (this is what happens when you find a stranger in the alps, Larry!).
The Internet and streaming services are fucking lazy and just insert ads every X seconds or whatever, which can often lead to an ad being played mid fucking sentence.
That is not laziness. This is a typical dark pattern, designed that way on purpose to annoy you into paying.
Youtube (without ad blockers) is the absolute worst at this, as it seems to insert mid roll ads specifically to disrupt the video.
Take my money or my time never both
Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of Brass Monkey…
Scamazon.
Streaming companies seen to think we’ve forgotten how to torrent and built a media box…
We are the minority though. 99% of people will happily drop their pants and bend over just to not lose their streaming services. Look at Netflix and their ad tier and cutting of sharing.
It’s even easier than that, now. For like $20/6 months, you can get a debrid service account that will host everything (that’s not obscure) for you. Hook it up to an app like Stremio and you basically have Netflix for all media. It even has panels for show/film discovery, sorted by genre categories.
The only big difference is that you select the quality of stream you want each time you start playing something.
I was going to set up my own system, but a debrid service is cheaper than buying the hard drives and a lot easier to set up.
The average user is a complacent meat bag ready to take whatever corporations want to shove down their throats. So for anyone capable I highly recommend torrenting absolutely every piece of media you consume, and simply buying a physical disk if you want to support said media. If the media doesn’t have a physical way to buy it fuck them, just steal it
I recently realised that my internet uplink is fast enough to stream 1080 to 3 family members, aka meat bags, and opened up my Plex server to them.
Lol, you are doing good work!
I saw these last two price increases coming when they dropped a billion dollars on the Lord of the Rings show and then again when the show got mediocre reviews and low viewing numbers.
When my student discount for Prime is over I’m canceling. This is the last straw.