🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ oh boy here I go again

I've cut off all but Disney+ and that's only because my nieces and nephews use it. Everything else just gets put into my 80TB raid now. Could probably do to start purging some of it, but also I wanna keep the writes to a minimum to extend drive life and I'm not anywhere near full.

My prime sub is more for free delivery on packages, rather than their shitty prime video service.

That said my dad does get some use out of it.

Dropped Prime when they boosted it to $140, feels like a better decision every day.

So cancel it

Funny that it's 2.99 no matter what currency you're using... I'm saving money by living in Canada!

The last straw for me was no more free returns. I cancelled my prime but it doesn't expire for a few months. A buddy of mine is doing the same. It's no longer worth it.

To be fair, coupling free shipment with video was strange to begin with. So, they are decoupling it a bit. I do not care about Amazon video, why should I pay for it at all?

That's unfortunate. Prime video had some shows that were good and it had a really cool feature where you got information about the actors on your phone while you were chromecasting. Everyone with lines got a card with their name, characters name (if it's revealed) and what they are known for. Video was the only part of the company that I am not actively boycotting but I guess its piracy all the way now.

Have not seen that in the Netherlands but I’m still dropping it. Haven’t seen anything we enjoyed watching for months (and Prime delivery still takes a week in most cases).

Myself, I'm enjoying this.

Even gave myself a virtual pat on the back.

Then again I've been avoiding Amazon like the Plague for at least a decade: I still remember their deleting of ebooks that people bought from their Fire Tablets some years ago and don't trust those fuckers at all in any way form or shape.

Glad more people are figuring it out, and in a way that's mainly mildly infuriating.

PS: Recently discovered Smashwords and am buying tons of ebooks from them as I can download all of them in open formats. IMHO, merelly the clued-on minority ditching Prime won't hurt them enough to make up for the vast bulk of people who will just stick around and accept ads, so the best we can do to screw Amazon is to spread information about sites that can be used to get same kind of stuff Amazon sells, so this is my small contribution.

Wait til they find out I'm happy to pay nothing and still get the same content (often with less hassle).

All these streaming services seem to have forgotten that piracy is incredibly easy and a lot of use chose to use their services because they were originally convenient and affordable. Now that they're more fractured than ever and way more expensive, why would I bother?

Would drop prime but I use it mainly for the shipping advantages and dont watch anything on it except 2 shows

Cancel immediately. That's what I did, and I'm not looking back.

On Christmas we wanted to watch a movie at my Family’s House and the Prime Video Servers where so fucked that we couldn’t watch it (it was an payed Movie). I generally think Prime Video and Music is shit.

Customers in the Republic of Ireland, Channel Islands, and Isle of Man won’t see ads in their experience at this time.

Well, I got the same email and I'm in RoI. I just agreed to cancel with my wife so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I guess it's time to invest in a NAS hardware upgrade..

Yup I Just cancelled F Amazon. Only had Prime for the streaming and the crappy Prime shipping that was always late.

Can someone tell me what the point of prime is at this point? I don't remember the last time a package arrived in under a week and now there are ads of a shitty streaming service?

“Line no go up, we get more money from you and advertisers, now line go up again”

Cancelled my Prime account last year. Kept my Amazon account and since then, used it twice to order stuff I couldn't find anywhere else. Still got free shipping.

Amazon video? Never used it.