Technology

Enshitification continues to march ever boldly onward.

My Prime membership is up in March. I've already decided to not renew it, since they decided to cancel The Peripheral. Had I not already made that decision, this change would have made it for me anyway.

Looks like I'm cancelling.

Say less.

time to stop paying for that shit

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How about i stop paying? Then what lol

Hoist the sails.

Yarrr, this be some bullshit.

Hmm, I wonder why they don't make the ad-supported version free like, uh I dunno, Spotify, or YouTube

Oh, "Lemmy" guess, greed, isn't it?

Their catalog is so shit that I don't even know what plays on Amazon. Back when they refused to make an Android video app I just got all their crap from other means. I've had prime for years just for the shipping I've never watched a video through their service.

The moment when pirating a movie gives you better experience than actually paying for it.

Sounds like a great time to cancel.

No point in paying for Prime Video when other services like Tubi or even Pluto TV offer free movies/shows with ads built-in. When I realized that it was easy to cancel.

Man, the enshitification is really taking over.

Probably going to work. Just another company trying to wring money from their user base since they can't reasonably grow. So many people were like "oh I'm cancelling Netflix if I can't share it" and then it was record sign ups for them and overall more money.

They are doing this right before The Boys comes back on and somewhat during Invincibles part 2 airing. People will be annoyed and pay the upcharge.

And like me pirating those still won't change much since I already was.

Bummer. Not because of the extra $3, honestly I'll probably just pay it. But because until now Prime programming has been able to operate with a certain freedom. I know 0 people with prime for the video (as opposed to the free delivery) so they were willing to take risks with the shows.

Solos and Tales from the Loop are both amazing works of art that would never have shown up on network TV, or Netflix which would much rather make cheap mass appeal shows with little depth. Even more shows with wider appeal (e.g. The Expanse) might not survive the TV Executive mindset now that they have a reason to care about the number of views as a primary metric, over user happiness.

And honestly, it all baffles me, I will gladly subscribe to a streaming service for one great show. Produce 3 or 4 a year and I'm subscribed for good. If I wanted an endless string of medicore baking reality shows, I'd get cable again.

Capitalism marches onward.

Oh well.

I

hate

ads. I will gladly let go of anything I lose when I drop it.

Ads have been designed by psychologists to be as Intrusive and stimulating as possible.

I barely watch anything anyway, so good bye TV, I've suffered thee long enough

Prime's entire UI already sucks dick. I can't even tell which shows/movies I can watch without having to pay, rent, or subscribe. Like mfer I'm paying to watch whatever Amazon has to offer. I only use it for The Boys, Reacher, and Invincible. Even with how much I would love to support these shows, fuck Amazon.

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And bring that keg of mead on board with ya, ya dastardly scallywags 🏴‍☠️

FYI here is a site with instructions on how to cancel your prime membership since it's not the easiest thing to find.

I was able to cancel on the mobile app using this same process.

As soon as I saw this I cancelled immediately. I’ve been a member since, um, ever?

Well, they can fuck right off.

So for those who don’t know, this happened with cable back in the day. No ads was part of the pitch, then they were slowly introduced, the appeal of the product fell, and, at least in my circles, fewer held on to the product over time.

Ha, I just cancelled my prime. Nailed it.