Amazon's Prime Video will start serving ads on January 29 unless you pay extra

And yet, people will fall for it again and again

at least you can choose to pay for one streamer at a time, binge, switch, repeat.

(for now, anyway.. until they all quit the full season drops and/or start putting their catalog on a rotation like the 'disney vault' was to home video).

yarrr

(Not trying to defend/excuse fking Amazon lol) They're easy to skip, though. I imagine these will not be skippable.

Also, people have paid to have Plex play them trailers for years, as it gives a cinematic experience.

It's not for me, an ad's an ad.

Goddddddddd this and HBO. I'm already on your fuckin platform, show me the show. If you REALLY need to push whatever new BS cash grab you've got, put it in a new releases section.

Those can be skipped. New ones will probably be similar but not skippable.

if I have to hear about American football against my will, it's a fucking ad

My library even has audiobooks, fuck you audible!

You can stream pretty much anything for free here: https://fmoviesz.to/

Make sure you have Adnauseam or uBlock Origin installed.

Incredibly lucky that our library system has started investing in blu-rays and has purchased many of the Criterion Collection. They have also heavily invested in Shout Factory’s offerings too. Now I need to see what they can do to start getting some Arrow, Vinegar Syndrome, and Severin releases!

I have no idea why, but your comment just randomly reminded me of this song from my childhood.

Their timing is incredibly stupid. If they had rolled this out in like October, people would've stuck it out for prime shipping on Christmas purchases, and then most people would've forgotten about it because nobody launches prime video because it's fucking garbage. This timing is probably gonna push the most people possible to cancel because we already bought shit, we're looking to cut costs, and people will have a "new year new me" attitude to change habits. The next dumbass move will be to split prime video off to be a separate subscription from prime shipping, and then they'll raise prices on both until shutting down video when nobody wants it, and then they'll introduce a cheaper prime shipping tier (current prime price) that is a required subscription to order anything from amazon. They will make the product shittier and shittier until the entire brand collapses like the hollow shell of its former self that it is.

Canceled Prime and Kindle Unlimited, I'm off the Amazon pill

It was for me.

I am just going to pirate their content from now on.

Honestly, everyone subscribing to streaming services gets exactly what they deserve.

You can stream anything for free here: https://fmoviesz.to/

Yet you still choose to waste your money so people richer than you can be even richer.

They already fucked up music earlier in the year, so I'm now fully out.

Yarrrrrrrrr I do like this option, lad, lass, or other.

Prime is pretty shit but Disney is a steaming pile of shit too. I honestly don't know which is worse.

I only use them both on PS5 though for the most part.

They need to pay programmers to fix these bugs, so ads.

Agreed. The concession for prime video being so shitty was that it was thrown in with prime shipping. People wanted fast, free delivery and what got them to pull the trigger on paying for that was a streaming service as a bonus. Now the shitty streaming service getting even shittier is making people wonder how much they really care about prime shipping. That's an uno reverse card if ever I've seen one.

Yeah I went through subs and cancelled all of them like six months ago, feels fantastic and very freeing.

The Expanse is one of the best sci-fi shows of all time. I highly recommend it.

Tastes aside...

Reacher.
Bosch.
Invincible.
Legend of Vox Machina.
Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
Upload.
The Expanse.
Vikings.
The Man in the High Castle.
Good Omens.
The Rings of Power.
Wheel of Time.
Hanna.
Outer Range.
The Outlaws.
Jack Ryan.
The Consultant.
The Kids in the Hall.

There's a lot there I don't watch. I know there's Fleabag but haven't watched it.

Currently I'm mostly watching Korean stuff on Netflix as most English releases are pretty meh compared to Invincible and Reacher on Prime.

Not with ads there isn't.

I quite like Reacher, most people like The Boys, I've heard good things about Good Omens.

Undone is probably the only show worth watching on prime, and you can stream it for free here: https://fmoviesz.to/

Undone is probably the only show worth watching on prime, and you can stream it for free here: https://fmoviesz.to/

Get a VPN after canceling Amazon and download whatever you want. Mullvad is much cheaper than prime video.

I do exactly the same. I always opt for the earliest free prime delivery available, even for just one item in my order.

Fuck their Amazon delivery day and No rush shipping. "Delivery in fewer trips to your home" ? I have exactly zero fucks to give - I need my stuff as early as possible as my prime membership will let me, even if at 4 AM in the morning, because I am freaking paying for it.

And "green for the environment" my ass - I know they don't care about environment, and I don't care about the gas tank of their delivery vans.

NAS and Jellyfin when at home brother