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So glad I cancelled Prime a few months ago. Turns out, I’m still getting free shipping even without it and I didn’t find Rings of Power worth pirating.
Yep. And I hate Walmart too but their Walmart+ is actually WAY better than Amazon.
Finally, that’s what everyone has been eagerly waiting for …
Yeah, what we were always missing after fleeing cable, was the ads that really made each show worth it.
Why can’t we just have nice things?
Because of Capitalism.
Well tell it to stop breaking all my stuff. This is bullying 😭
well… this gonna be a bit harder
I believe in you. You can do anything you set your mind to.
How do people think paying for a service and still being served ads is acceptable?
To be fair, Prime Video has always just been a free perk attached to prime (and with all the other ‘perks’ combined you could basically consider it free). For example I get an extra 3% back on all my Amazon orders by being a prime member. At the current cost of prime and just with the home supplies I order w/ subscribe and save, it pays for itself. That’s not to say I’m happy with this, but in actuality they’re fairly well positioned with the product to make this move and have most of the user base be merely disgruntled.
People lived with it for years with cable.
Right, but the business model is totally different. You’re paying your cable provider for access, you’re not paying to watch the TV shows. The TV shows were financed by broadcaster advertising revenues among other streams of income. With Amazon, you’re paying for access and to fund their programs. Ads are just greedy and anti-consumer for a vertically integrated platform like Amazon Video.
Cable wasn’t really a thing here in the UK, we’re not primed for their bullshit.
i see what you did there.
Sky has a shit ton of ads.
Cable started out without ads too. That was why you paid for it.
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Hulu has a lower price tear that includes ads. It makes it more affordable for some people. If they had started out with ads I would be less upset, but for a big company like Amazon it just seems like they’re trying to make even more money off of the consumer.
Hulu DID start out with ads. When they launched it was an entirely ad supported service. Hulu+ didn’t come until years later. After several years of running two tiers of service, free ad supported and paid ad free, they dropped the free tier. Now, years later, we’re back to ads with Hulu, but this time you pay for the privilege.
They already show ads though. Just for their own content after every episode.
It’s made me stop using their service because it’s annoying enough as it is.
Also those make me despise the advertised show and refuse to watch it already.
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yo ho, a pirates life for me
Would help if they still made content worth pirating.
Kind of glad Marvelous Mrs. Maisel ended when it did, so I don’t need to see ads!
I liked The Boys and Tales From The Loop. Couldn’t tell you anything else they made though
fair point.
The Boys was good, but the Lord of the Rings series was horrible.
Invincibles was good too.
And the expanse
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The Expanse was amazing.
I’m enjoying Wheel of Time. Even as a fan of the books despite the changes.
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I’ve been avoiding any online talk about it and just enjoying it for what it is.
Meh. I found it enjoyable overall, despite some annoyances.
And I’ve read the books a fair bit. Even The Silmarillion.
Lol that’s a nope from me, dawg. I’ll bail on that once I start seeing ads on a thing I pay for.
Trillion dollar company doesn’t care. You’ll get ads and they will take your money. Like it or not.
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It’s literally a race to the bottom on streaming services before we eventually end up with cable in an app. Or rather multiple apps.
Fuck I hate this timeline.
My ISP already offers a streaming package, you pay monthly for a package of streaming apps. It’s literally cable with extra steps
Seriously, everything that was once good is now either fucked or planning to be fucked.
So ads, charging for shipping on many products, and costing $140 a year? Hmm.
The enshitification will continue until there isn’t any cent left to transfer to the shareholders.
Rent seeking. It’s called rent seeking. People keep calling it “enshitification” as if this is a new thing.
Rent seeking is just a part of enshitification
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This might make me reconsider my prime subscription. I already find prime video a bit lacking but combined with free shipping I find the service as a whole worth paying for, however I’m not sure I order enough for free shipping alone to be worth it
I refuse to pay for ads to be delivered to me. Seeing them unpaid is bad enough and I avoid it at all costs. But I will not pay for ads.
I’ve returned to the high seas, eye patch and all.
I found a seedbox provider that is fairly cheap and works well. I have a long standing rss feed for new shows so next step is going to be getting it setup to auto download for me. I can do it locally but spectrum is hard core with the dmca notices and I don’t want to risk losing my account.
I have Spectrum as well, but using a VPN w/ dead switch turned on has worked thus far. They really are ruthless with dmca though. Hate Spectrum with a deep, deep passion, and not just because of that, but everything else. There’s a competitor rolling out fiber everywhere in my city though, so I will soon be ditching them, thankfully.
There are 2 companies running fiber in my city but I live in the outskirts in what I call country’ish, no clue if/when they make it to my street, there are only like 20 houses if that on my road.
If I’m not mistaken, Spectrum has no data cap, right?
Asking because I actually miss Spectrum relative to other major cable providers. And I’ve not had the opportunity to get on the fiber train yet.
They have no cap, but that’s only because they agreed to not impose a cap for a period of time as part of the agreement with the FCC (FTC? One of those 3-letter agencies) that allowed them to absorb Time Warner Cable. That period of time is up, I’m pretty sure, so we shall see what they decide to do.
No data cap anywhere that I am aware of. Despite being in what I call country’ish we have gigabit down from them but the upload is capped at like 35-40 megs.
Have a look at the **arr range of apps
Sonarr and Radarr with NZBGet, usenet indexer and a cheap unlimited news server provider, and you’re laughing. I have everything downloading automagically as soon as its release, loads right into Jellyfin - all on a copyright notice keen ISP and never have any issues because im not sharing anything up, its all down with usenet
I have been looking into this solution, I am concerned on whether it will need a VPN or not. I have one already, but it does not play nice with my current solution.
I have all my services set up on a docker container that has a VPN Killswitch, so if the VPN ever drops for any reason my “activity” is disabled automatically until I can notice and fix it.
The majority of countries, and the uk for sure, its not illegal to download content but it is illegal to upload it / share it. Therefore using usenet is fine to do, legally, without the aid of a VPN as you are merely consuming and not providing or uploading. I have been doing this for years with zero problem or letter from any of three isps i have been with the in last decade.
Good to know, thanks.
You’re very welcome. I have a newsletter you can subscribe to if you’d like, though i should probably warn you it costs £5 a month and includes some advertising.
It’s all direct download and https from what I understand, so all anyone can see is that you went to the sites, not what you download.
Or classic torrents combined with a VPN.
Just use a vpn, always, and spectrum has no idea what you’re doing
Or, I could pay the $9/month for a server that has a 10gig connection to the rest of the world and do my part by leaving them seeding for longer than I would otherwise.
Would love a seed box recommendation if you have one to share? My new place is off grid so with limited power prefer to offload a 24 hour server elsewhere so I can be a responsible seeder.
I’m using rapidseedbox.com but there are a ton of others out there. I tried them because they take crypto and I don’t have to give them any info whatsoever.
What service offers that and doesn’t mind torrenting? (Legal torrenting ofc, we wouldn’t ever dream of discussing illegal topics here 🏴☠️)
I’m using rapidseedbox.com, they don’t ask for any personal info and I paid with crypto. The lowend plan I’m using is $9/month and doesn’t offer many options aside from sftp access, 3 or 4 torrent apps you can switch between and a couple of other things. The higher end plans offer a shit load more like plex, etc. They will send a dmca notice and then like 12 hours later delete the offending content. I’ve learned that you can just restart the torrent and re-download it and all is well going forward.
There are a ton of other options out there for seedboxes.
I pay about $300 per year for an IPTV service that provides over 3000 channels which means all the news and sports I can think of. Also on demand TV and movies, and recordings of popular live sports. It allows 2 public IPs so I share this service with my brother. It’s amazing. I’ve used a few different IPTV services that got shutdown and this one is the best. It’s been about 2 years now which is about as long as I’ve seen these services last so I hope it doesn’t get shut down anytime soon.
I’d rather just run my own service for my own use. I have a nas and I use vlc on my TV to watch anything I want. I’m currently working on grabbing all of the shows that I want to re-watch and are available in their entirety, homeland, the wire, Dr who, Archer, etc. I’ll also be keeping an eye on the paramount and others for shows that look interesting and add them to my rss feed.
Even as a child, when we had cable, I would ask my dad why we still had to watch commercials even though we pay for the service. I understood why stations like CBS, NBC, or ABC may have needed ads as they were free over-the-air, but surely paying for cable should mean no ads, right?
Never had a good answer. It’s pretty fucked up that we collectively allowed them to pull that shit on us and put up with it for like 3 decades.
There was a brief and glorious time when Pay Cable was billed as being ad-free. You would still see promos for other shows and channels between shows, but there were no commercial breaks!
Oh shit, I forgot about that being a thing. Wow, how the fuck did society get so accustomed to dealing with that BS? Granted, we almost broke out of it when streaming became mainstream, but it looks like we’re about to get a screwed right back into it.
Same as BBC in the UK.
Maybe a 5-10 sec “And next on BBC 1 is blah blah and on BBC 2 we have blah blah starting at 7 o’clock”
Of course you “have” to pay for it, though (if you don’t pay nobody would know).
Alternate Headline: “Amazon ruins Prime and forces their customers to cancel their Prime Memberships by putting advertisements into paid content”
Prime already has ads and they are obnoxious. They are their own ads. Is outside ads the new development or what? New tiers?
