I didn't have prime for the streaming and hardly used it. Until Christmas when I just wanted Christmas bullshit on in the background and prime decided to cut in mid sentence to run an obnoxiously loud ad. So that's how we finally cancelled prime.
I think I've had 2 one month free primes, and 1 free week of prime, so far this year. Of course I take it, and burden their servers by leaving shit streaming as often as I can, with absolutely no return on investment for them.
They show ads unless you pay for the super plus version of Prime. So by streaming they get ad revenue from the companies advertising even if you don't watch the ads. The companies pay for the ads by increasing the price of what they sell- and they don't sell only on Amazon but everywhere.
So when you buy a bag of chips at the local store, some of that money is going to Amazon because you had their streaming on.
What is doing more harm to the environment is people paying for prime, and giving amazon the money to build more data centers, and to drain more drinking water supplies to cool them. 🙄
You subscribe, thinking you've won, and you just have 9 other things pop up to have to subscribe to under prime to actually watch what you want to watch.
Gotta have subscriptions in your subscriptions, so you can subscribe while subscribing.
Fuck Amazon anyway, but I used to use it when I was mooching off a friend's prime subscription and I gotta say, this is probably a bug not intentional. Whole interface was nothing but bugs.
Why are you surprised? Movies as a whole have been dogshit for too long now. Just look at the steaming pile of dogshit that won best picture last year.
49 Comments
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org · 91 pts · 94d
'ave ye thought about finally joinin' the crew 'n settin' sail?
Scuttlin' the service be the only language they understand. In addition ye get wider choice o' better quality movies 'n series.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 15 pts · 94d
Aye, matey.
Only subscription I need is for my VPN. An' that's just to keep Comcast from sendin' me nasty emails when I plunder somthin' they be the owner of.
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 94d
Know of anyone looking for another crew member?
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org · 8 pts · 94d
1337x is still working and seems to have most stuff and fitgirl for games. Though might need a VPN from time to time.
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 94d
Gah?
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org · 7 pts · 94d
translated form a pirate dialect
Have you thought about setting sail?
Canceling the service is the only language they understand.
In addition you get wider choice of better quality movies and series.
starlinguk@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 94d
Don't do this if you live in Germany. They actually monitor this stuff and you're in deep doodoo if they catch you.
tja@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 94d
A VPN helps with that.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 94d
Don't listen to this dude.
Do it instead elsewhere and download from there :)
IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 94d
opsec
FeddedUp@feddit.online · 1 pts · 94d
lokalhorst@feddit.org · 76 pts · 94d
There is no wrong time to cancel your Prime membership.
Aneb@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 93d
Why wait till tmr what you could do today
davidagain@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 93d
Your benefits continue until the end of what you have paid for anyway, or at least they do in the UK/EU.
reddig33@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 94d
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rafoix@lemmy.zip · 30 pts · 94d
The thumbs don’t matter to Bezos. Just like the rest of your opinions.
digger@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 94d
It's all algorithms driving engagement and a thumbs down is engagement.
huppakee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 94d
I'd expected him to care more whether i want to continue paying for his product though
ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works · 42 pts · 94d
Ha ha! You pay to watch ads.
SippyCup@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 94d
I didn't have prime for the streaming and hardly used it. Until Christmas when I just wanted Christmas bullshit on in the background and prime decided to cut in mid sentence to run an obnoxiously loud ad. So that's how we finally cancelled prime.
Also, paying to watch ads was how cable worked.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 94d
Amazon gives out free prime all the time.
I think I've had 2 one month free primes, and 1 free week of prime, so far this year. Of course I take it, and burden their servers by leaving shit streaming as often as I can, with absolutely no return on investment for them.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 93d
They show ads unless you pay for the super plus version of Prime. So by streaming they get ad revenue from the companies advertising even if you don't watch the ads. The companies pay for the ads by increasing the price of what they sell- and they don't sell only on Amazon but everywhere.
So when you buy a bag of chips at the local store, some of that money is going to Amazon because you had their streaming on.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 93d
I don't recall ever seeing an add on prime videos.
Then again, I don't dip my internet wick without protection, either.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 93d
Vpn? Because pihole doesn't stop them.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 93d
Isn't that doing more harm to the environment than you then? I appreciate the sentiment tho
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 93d
No.
What is doing more harm to the environment is people paying for prime, and giving amazon the money to build more data centers, and to drain more drinking water supplies to cool them. 🙄
oats@piefed.zip · 24 pts · 94d
Search amazon for "shoes, size 13", you'll get anything but shoes in a proper size
optimisticturtle@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 94d
lobut@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 93d
I haven't used Amazon in such a long time but I figured they would have made it better with LLMs and stuff.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 93d
Well there's your problem... you logged onto Amazon
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 94d
"Just let the AI handle it!"
And now they've lost 3 billion in revenue.
Danarchy@lemmy.nz · 16 pts · 94d
None of these people top wtf
Visstix@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 94d
Yeah the deep is definitely a sub, he goes underwater all the time.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 94d
Story of my life
possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 93d
Jack Ryan? Total bottom.
Danarchy@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 93d
Jack Ryan? Oh honey, you bet I do
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 94d
Amazon prime is the Pandora of video streaming
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 94d
Nah, its the Hydra of streaming.
You subscribe, thinking you've won, and you just have 9 other things pop up to have to subscribe to under prime to actually watch what you want to watch.
Gotta have subscriptions in your subscriptions, so you can subscribe while subscribing.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 94d
Same for netflix when I left.
roserose56@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 93d
Just don't subscribe, easy. We had enough with Amazon and USA.
FeddedUp@feddit.online · 9 pts · 94d
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 93d
Fuck Amazon anyway, but I used to use it when I was mooching off a friend's prime subscription and I gotta say, this is probably a bug not intentional. Whole interface was nothing but bugs.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 93d
When Amazon started putting ads on prime, I immediately stopped watching prime forever.
Fuck em.
1984@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 94d
Prime bullshit.
timeghost@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 93d
AZ⤵️ Your money goes to pedos.
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 94d
I don't have this problem with Stremio.
crisis@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 94d
SuperNatural Movie? Ripper!
IWW4@lemmy.zip · -2 pts · 94d
Why are you surprised? Movies as a whole have been dogshit for too long now. Just look at the steaming pile of dogshit that won best picture last year.
modestmeme@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 94d
I’m just here to vouch for The Boys
Mok98@feddit.it · 7 pts · 94d
'S first three seasons are good then don't bother with 4 and 5
justlemmyin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 94d
I gave up midway through 2 when randos started showing and wanted me to care... Or was it 3, anyway s1 was good, let's end it there..
Drusas@fedia.io · 0 pts · 94d
Which isn't even a movie.