🎶We’re rascals and scoundrels, we’re villains and knaves Drink up me hearties, yo ho We’re devils and black sheep, we’re really bad eggs Drink up me hearties, yo ho Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me🎶
I will ramp down my use of amazon prime
Hmm, unfortunately I can’t go negative.
I won’t. At least not via TPB.
Attention subscribers! We will be making your experience worse going forward! We’re not even going to soften our language to make it seem like we’re doing you a favor! More ads for everyone!
Still waiting on a video free version, like I originally ordered… probably $30/mo next year
Deeper into the high seas!
I paid for the ad free add-on while Rings of Power is on but after that I’ll just cancel Prime completely until there’s another show I want to watch, so they’re overall losing money from me with this decision.
That’s okay, I’ll ramp up my piracy of Amazon-exclusive shows in 2025 too.
How many shows do they produce that are even worth mentioning let alone watching?
The Boys, Fallout, Vox Machina, Invincible? Although most aren’t directly produced by Amazon itself. The Expanse if we want to count the hosting and the fact that it still got cancelled.
Clarkson’s Farm. And until recently, The Grand Tour.
Can’t think of any others from the last few years.
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Off the top of my head, the only one that I’ve watched in recent memory was Fallout.
That’s what you do if you pay a giant corpo; you feed a kraken, so it can grow more arms and get greedier.
Well, guess it’s time to get an eye patch and a pet parrot
I have already ramped up on that one on their last ad ramp up.
I can’t stand it.
Do you know any sea shanties to go along with that?
What shall we do with an ad filled service? What shall we do with an ad filled service? What shall we do with an ad filled service? Before we go crazy!
Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Before we go crazy!
Cancel our subscription with greatest haste now! Cancel our subscription with greatest haste now! Cancel our subscription with greatest haste now! Before we go crazy!
Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Before we go crazy!
Search for the show on pirate websites! Search for the show on pirate websites! Search for the show on pirate websites! Before we go crazy!
Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Before we go crazy!
Yo ho ho and a terabyte of NAS!
Aye!
[When launched] Prime Video with ads was given a “very light ad load,” providing subscribers “gentle entry into advertising that has exceeded customers expectations in terms of what the ad experience would be like." The executive pointed out that Prime Video with ads doesn’t show commercials in the middle of content. That could change next year.
Planned enshittification a la boiling frogs.
Light my arse, from the start they’ve interrupted with adverts for their own crap making it barely tolerable. Even on the adfree tier.
Canceled and no intention of ever going back. Measuring your ad load by American standards doesn’t work when your competition is netflix and iPlayer.
That’s not even true, they interrupted episode 2 of Rings of Power for me.
I’ll just pirate their shit. I’ll pirate it so hard and I’ll do it with both middle fingers in the air. But not literally, I would definitely need both hands to pirate their content.
We still need one person with a membership to download and post it all. Maybe we should start a fund to support their ever increasing membership costs…
So are executives born with an asshole where their mouth belongs or do they surgically put it on when you get the gig?
Humans, being deuterostomes, have an embryological stage where we are just anuses.
Some humans never develop past that.
Is it weird that I have prime but I pirate still?
It’s not just a good experience…
I do the same. Their video app was shit before the ads.
Prime Video is easily the worst mainstream streaming service. Fuck all for selection, movies that you think are available cost money, and the add-on channels only have select episodes or seasons, never full shows.
Yup, I had it for a bit when we used Prime, but the experience sucked so I naturally just didn’t use it. Then I realized I’m only using shipping and Twitch subs, and that certainly wasn’t worth the cost, so I cancelled.
Screw 'em.
I have free prime through my ISP. I still pirate the content. I started even before the full blown ads, when they had “previews” of other shows and movies.
Stopped watching netflix because they banned sharing accounts and £18 (24 USD) monthly was too much for just one person. Cheaper plans didn’t have 4K or 5.1 audio, so it felt like a waste when I couldn’t even use my setup as it is meant to be used.
Never watched prime because I refuse to pay for something then still see ads.
Now I either source stuff by other means (🏴☠️🦜) and put it on my media server, or I use BBC iPlayer. Not sure if that’s a thing outside of the UK, but zero ads and decent quality programming is something I’m happy to pay their fee for, especially when it also goes towards funding ad-free TV, radio, news, sport, podcasts, etc.
It’s fucked how greed has completely ruined the streaming market. Back in ~2010 it felt like the market was going in such a positive direction.
Same thing happened with cable decades ago.
The public TV was full of ads and bad programs. Cable offered you pay them for no ads, good series and new movies. Then the prices rose, then the ads started, then the programs turned to shit as much or even more than before.
Streaming just went the same path.
And they’ve already ramped it up quite a bit. Been watching a show for couple of months, used to be one ad per episode, which I could handle, now it’s like every 10 minutes. So I’ve already cancelled and found the show using other ways.
I cancelled prime the day they announced it and got a VPN instead.
