I know it’s only fractionally better, but I’ve started using AliExpress more for shit that I’d buy on Amazon in the past. Delivery takes a couple of weeks, but that’s had the added bonus of making think about how much I really need the thing I’m ordering.

But yeah, we canceled Prime when they added adverts. We didn’t really watch much on there, but it gave us the bump we needed to stop giving Amazon £10 a month, even if we didn’t order anything.

Media clowns act like their engagement slop is food or shelter… Guess users haven’t voted with their feet enough on this 100% discretionary expense

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.

So are executives born with an asshole where their mouth belongs or do they surgically put it on when you get the gig?

The executive pointed out that Prime Video with ads doesn’t show commercials in the middle of content. That could change next year.

So regular TV is designed around the ads.

Cliff hangers before ads are done not only for the story, but to keep you there through the ad to get the outcome to the cliffhanger.

That partially went away with the no ad streaming.

Now that shitty behavior is going to come back.

The executive pointed out that Prime Video with ads doesn’t show commercials in the middle of Content

That’s a blatant lie, it definitely does.

That’s not even true, they interrupted episode 2 of Rings of Power for me.

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.

Perhaps the ad-free prime video subscription could be a viable option if prime has a lot of your favourite shows and you are opposed to piracy?

Not judging or telling you what to do. Just thinking out loud.

I would just go with piracy if you don’t want to pay the ad free tier.

I just went cold turkey because I can’t/won’t watch content with ads, and already felt the cost of our streaming services was too much for what we get out of it.

What I’ve found myself doing is if I do buy from Amazon and it’s below the free shipping amount, I try and buy from a marketplace seller who ships themselves for free. Often this ends up matching the Prime price, but it’s buried further down the result because it doesn’t have Prime shipping. Or I buy the same product via eBay, which is mostly cheaper. But main thing is, I’ve found I just buy less. Like A LOT less. As a family we’d often get 3 or 4 Amazon deliveries a week. That’s not been replaced with orders from other retailers. It’s almost as if having Prime encourages you to buy stuff you maybe don’t need!

just wait until you have like 40-50$ worth of items, a lot of the time they’ll give you free shipping at a certain price point. Plus some items give you free shipping regardless.

That being said, I still have prime myself cause I order /a lot/ of small orders and it’s shared with the house, plus I use the family member feature to give my mom prime as well and we just split the cost. When they do away with that feature is when I cancel my sub, 140-160 a year is not worth it for one person to pay alone, that’s roughly 2.5 orders a month

Fwiw, I’ve been prime free now for almost three years. If you batch your orders, you can still get free shipping.

Not only that but if you’re looking at a high priced item the manufacturer will often ship it for free at the same price as amazon.

I still pirate shows I would have the right to stream 😂😅quality is better and no tracking 🤷🏻

Do you know any sea shanties to go along with that?

I have already ramped up on that one on their last ad ramp up.

In this day and age, accepting cash payments is the least shady and most customer friendly thing of all.

It’s the ones who want to know ALL about you and partner with payment processors who want to know ALL about you that are shady.

You know you can pay proton with cash, right? No need to go all shady

Your employer probably made you sign a contract, Amazon just changes their eula/terms&conditions. Amazon aren’t legally bound to keep their prices the same.

I’m not even sure how many streaming services make a profit at this point. They all seem to lower the quality everywhere at the same time.

Raises where you work are still based on merit? Damn!

I do have a prime account as do use Amazon, but we haven’t watched a second of prime TV since they put ads in the included video subscription.

When they announced the ads it was just the incentive I needed to quit Prime totally. I don’t miss it. I already was wary of buying from Amazon due to the sketchy sellers and fake products, so I’m glad buying my stuff elsewhere except when I can’t find something somewhere else, which has been rare.

Great news!