• Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
    58·
    1 year ago

    Better not be advert breaks in the service I PAY FOR, or else I’m out.

    I’m not paying anybody to serve me adverts. Ever.

    Their application is already god awful, and their database is built incredibly poorly (what idiot decided that different seasons of one TV show should have entirely separate listings in the database, often making it hard to find?!).

    AND, they’re constantly trying to shove extra paid stuff down my throat, like something called Paramount+, in the thing I’m already bloody paying for.

    I’m already at the edge of my tether with these people for their crappy service. If they introduce advertisment breaks into a service I’m paying for? That would be a direct insult, and I don’t stand for that sort of thing.

    • 2ncs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      their database is built incredibly poorly (what idiot decided that different seasons of one TV show should have entirely separate listings in the database, often making it hard to find?!).

      Likely this is legacy from when you would buy each season as a DVD set

  • Carter@feddit.ukEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    How do people think paying for a service and still being served ads is acceptable?

    • PlatinumSf@pawb.socialEnglish
      82·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • Polar@lemmy.caEnglish
    40·
    1 year ago

    People use prime video? I find that half the shit I click on, it tells me it’s not included with prime and I have to buy it…

  • GuerillaGorillas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    1 year ago

    Wow, first they destroy Prime Music to push you to pay extra for Music Unlimited and now this? I have no idea what the value of Prime even is now unless you order online frequently, which is harder and harder to justify with all the shady and low quality sellers polluting the site.

  • cooopsspace@infosec.pubEnglish
    35·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • just_change_it@lemmy.worldEnglish
    341·
    1 year ago

    Remember folks who are currently subscribed: They do not give prorated refunds for full year subs. When you cancel the service ends immediately. Setup calendar reminders or eat the sunk cost now because Amazon Prime is just a typical subscription entrapment scheme that will only get harder and harder to cancel, like a gym membership.

    Edit: Thanks /u/@firadin - Cancel now, you don’t lose anything and the membership simply won’t renew on your renewal date.

    • Texas_Hangover@lemm.eeEnglish
      121·
      1 year ago

      Is that new? When I cancelled last year a couple months into my year long subscription I got the money back for the unused months. No problem, easy too.

      • just_change_it@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        It’s not new, it’s just asshole web design and misleading pages when you go to cancel. I went and cancelled a couple minutes ago.

    • firadin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      That’s not accurate, they don’t stop your benefits when you hit the cancel button. I just cancelled today and have my benefits until the end of my yearly subscription in November.

      • just_change_it@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Wow, you’re right. I just ended mine.

        Their website has an asshole design. They make you click through two pages before telling you the truth.

  • Tischkante@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    27·
    1 year ago

    This isn’t even really normal entshitification, they added videos and some music cheap Spotify knockoff to their fast delivery flat rate. Nobody asked them to.

    Then they slowly raised the price, essentially locking everyone that just wanted free fast delivery into a video streaming service and kept increasing the price.

    They did this to force existing subscribers into their “new” business idea of a video streaming service, when they couldn’t yet compete with the competition back then. Good news for them, their competitors are shit now.

    Now they can include advertisements in it too and add more expensive advertisement free tiers. Essentially increasing the price again, but hiding it so people can’t ask for subscription fees back in Europe.

    Do they really think most people have forgotten they just wanted a fast delivery flat rate? They will never offer their delivery flat rate without video and all that stuff again, only if a legislature would force them.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      And increasingly I’m finding that they’re making me place a minimum order size to get the free shipping. You know - like shipping was without prime.

  • kingthrillgore@lemmy.mlEnglish
    24·
    1 year ago

    Just in time for me to finish Invincible and fuck off

    They aren’t doing it because they have to, they’re doing it to make money.

  • Nommer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    I just cancelled. Was thinking about doing it during the last price hike but never got around to it. Good thing they announced it now since it was going to renewed on the 15th of October.

    • Tacos_y_margaritas@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Be careful when you try to order stuff from Amazon without prime. They try to coerce you into getting prime about 4 times during the checkout process. It’s so scummy.

    • YⓄ乙 @aussie.zoneEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      Trillion dollar company doesn’t care. You’ll get ads and they will take your money. Like it or not.

    • just_change_it@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      Amazon Prime hasn’t been good for years. There’s no reason to pay for it.

      If amazon was smart they would have not included their streaming service in their free shipping subscription but now it just feels like an expensive bloated product with minimal value.