I cancelled prime the day they announced it and got a VPN instead.
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2024
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Hmmm maybe it's time to solicit that VPN that doesn't collect logs and is shady enough to accept cash payment.....
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That's what you do if you pay a giant corpo; you feed a kraken, so it can grow more arms and get greedier.
I've just stopped watching all prime content. Paramount+ is really pissing me off right now as well.
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Jeff, I’ll say this as nicely as possible. Go fuck yourself
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.
And when it crashes the greedy rich fuckers who invested will find a way to pass the losses to the tax payers. Private gains and socialized losses are the newest trick of the rich.
What’s good about Amazon anyway? It’s better to get stuff directly from a sellers site, even better if they’re indie. There’s not much value to prime shipping anymore, most sellers are pretty good about it now ironically because of Amazon. Using services like Amazon just creates more pollution, wage depression and small business closures. Use services like Amazon less, favor indie and small and fair wage businesses
The hardest part to combat is laziness. Amazon is a one stop shop. Personally I don't care to shop online much anymore but when I do I'm always using direct websites for the companies since I know what I'm looking for.
Also something scary to think about, They could lose most of their customers and still thrive because of how much money they have already pulled in.
While I do try to buy direct on some items that I am confident I’ll keep. The return policy and ease of use are why I’m still with Amazon. I just don’t want to have to deal with thirty different companies and their return policies.
But if I’m buying something like replacement parts or something that I’m not sure about if there isn’t significant savings, then I’m going with Amazon for piece of mind that I can return the item at no cost to me.
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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.
Still waiting on a video free version, like I originally ordered... probably $30/mo next year
So I started reaching out to any company puting ads on .my PAID amazon prime account with the lowest rating possible anywhere I can find them on their aps, websites contacting their customer service citing the ads on amazon...if we vote with our wallets things can change.
Good thing adblock didn't work on the browser version of Prime video last time I used it after getting tired of the ads on the app version!
It's possible they're embedding ads now though
I cancelled prime when they first introduced ads. But the delivery fees without prime, damn. I think I'd pirate shows if I got prime but I'm pretty sure that just makes them think they should invest in fewer shows. And damned if, pre ads, prime didn't have a lot of my favourites (boys, invincible, end of the expanse etc.)
What a ramble. I'm just torn.
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!
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"Tolerate," my ass. I'm paying the three dollars a month for ad-free Prime, because I'm not watching ads during an election year. The damn election is stressful enough as it is.
Prime Video is just barely worth the price, but now that all the Stephen J. Cannell shows have been moved to Shout Factory TV, I'm reconsidering. Between that and all the shows on Freevee (uh, what part of "ad free viewing" don't you understand?), the only tangible benefit I get from Amazon Prime is free shipping... and that free shipping isn't as fast as it used to be before the pandemic.