You don't actually have to pay Amazon anything. I suggest you consider this.

And I just cancelled. Fuck them. This is 1990's pay TV repeating itself. I'm not playing that part of history again.

Options:

1. Pay no extra and suffer annoying adverts in all movies and shows.

2. Pay an extra £35.88 a year to get the same awful experience you had before.

3. Save £95 a year and cancel it. Spend your savings on a VPN, and look into Jellyfin, Radarr and Sonarr. BEST VALUE

that looks to be almost all steaming services adding an ad-supported option, you now pay to not have ads.

Back to the high sea's to watch anything then

I cancelled Prime as soon as I got this email. It was set to renew in February so perfect timing. I also sent them an email to provide some feedback about the change:

I cancelled my membership as soon as I received notification that you would be including ads to a PAID streaming service. I cannot believe that you think asking for more money per month to have an ad free experience is ok. The world is going to shit because of greedy corporations like you. I hope you go bankrupt and Jeff Bezos goes looking for the Titanic in a poorly made submarine.

Honestly, I would love to believe everyone here, but I remember Netflix last year with eliminating password sharing and how everyone lost their collective minds about it. I thought dam Netflix will really get it this time, then it turns out Netflix was right and they actually gained subscriptions from doing it.

My Prime subscription renewed in Dec. I didn’t know about the ads arriving. So yesterday I went through support and cancelled my subscription and they agreed to refund what I paid.

If they want to change the membership terms on renewals it’s their right to do so, but changing the terms of an annual subscription after I purchased it is unethical to me.

I just cancelled my subscription

Want to watch Amazon Prime shows commercial free for free?

Set sail me mateys!

We need to show you ads for your sake. It's so that we can make more and better content for you, so that you and even more, stay subscribed, even though we also just raised subscription fees. It's not because we want the money. It's for your sake we're doing this!

Already cancelled my prime account when this was announced months and months and months ago.

You're already getting recurring subscription fees from me, so you're getting paid even if I don't use your services for any period of time. Stop fucking around and playing games, adding ads is double dipping. I'll just stop the recurring transactions and find services elsewhere.

This is a 26% price hike. Amazon's marketing BS shouldn't fool anyone.

No, what you have to do is cancel prime, refund your remaining subscription, forget they ever existed, and buy stuff from places that might actually appreciate it.

Avast! Abandon yonder stream ship, lest those scallywags hornswaggle ye again.

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Get greedy, never get paid again, that's my policy.

Made em give me $50 back too, fuck you, dirtbags.

I've had prime since almost day one. Lately I've been trying to reduce my dependency on Amazon which isn't easy when you're already paying them in advance for shipping just to keep prime video and a few free games and ebooks. This was the push I needed to finally sever that tie and release myself from their trap. This could be the start of a good thing for a lot of people. Prime has been an effective competition blocking lock-in scheme for too long. It's end result is it's ability to keep prices high because they are the sole gatekeeper. Good riddance Amazon.

This is exactly what every streaming service that has added ads has claimed at the time. Then they load as many ads as feasibly possible.

Marketing is a fucking disease.

Pirate everything.

"We aim to have meaningfully fewer ads than … " That's an insanely low bar to clear. Also, I thought you already did, by having [quickly recounts using fingers] none!

They're really trying to spin this as a positive. They always tried to pull this. From the very start. "Your prime now includes Video, you didn't ask for it, but we gave it to you anyway, for free! Also Prime now costs more." And then as soon as there's finally anything interesting "Look, all the things you love are now on your free prime video - oh you want to watch that one? Sorry, that is for rent only, or you can buy it!" I don't remember how long I've been a customer, must have been 2009. Got a gift card for Christmas, I can't use it to pay because I need to verify my identity? What?!

Enshittification galore.

Canceled my sub, dusted off my torrent tracker logins.

Piracy solves this

Fuck amazon! 🏴‍☠️

This shit sucks so much, first they make a descent service at a fair price then make it worse and more expensive.

I only have Netflix left, for the kids. Everything else I obtain “elsewhere”.

What a beautiful excuse to drop prime. Unfortunately my own changing of behavior won't change anyone's, but hey, at least I guess it's less money spent monthly.

Yo ho yer scallwags we sail the high seas🌊🏴‍☠️🦜

Argh, ahoi mate! Lets sail the high seas, come with us!

yo ho ho ho ho ho ho ho and a bottle of rum

I unsubscribed. I find myself using Amazon less and less for shipping anyways, so now I definitely don't feel the need to stay subscribed for streaming either.

Greedy pigs, they can't help themselves anymore. I swear it went up 20 or 30% in the last year or two, and now this. Does anyone have recommendations on where to find stuff if you are tech stupid with no computer (only a Roku TV and android phone)?

I canceled my prime membership. Been switching where I purchase most things anyway so this was the last straw.

It "allows" them to invest in compelling content to make more money from the same service.

I dropped Prime before any of this happened. I was paying mostly for the two-day shipping, which became increasingly longer than two days.

What made me quit it was when I ordered two of the same item from the same seller, but one shipped from the seller and one direct from Amazon. Both were listed in stock. The one shipped by the seller arrived in three days. The one shipped by Amazon had not yet shipped after the first week. I even contacted the seller, who suggested I cancel, but Amazon wouldn't accept my cancelation, so I had to wait more than two weeks for it to ship.

Turns out I was a fool to be paying Amazon all that time for a sub-optimal service. And I've saved so much money ever since when I can't just buy things with free shipping. In fact, I rarely buy anything from Amazon at all anymore.

So this? This tracks with the direction they've been heading for a long time, and it doesn't surprise me one bit.

Dropped Prime when they boosted it to $140, feels like a better decision every day.

My prime sub is more for free delivery on packages, rather than their shitty prime video service.

That said my dad does get some use out of it.

🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ oh boy here I go again

I've cut off all but Disney+ and that's only because my nieces and nephews use it. Everything else just gets put into my 80TB raid now. Could probably do to start purging some of it, but also I wanna keep the writes to a minimum to extend drive life and I'm not anywhere near full.

Funny that it's 2.99 no matter what currency you're using... I'm saving money by living in Canada!

So cancel it

The last straw for me was no more free returns. I cancelled my prime but it doesn't expire for a few months. A buddy of mine is doing the same. It's no longer worth it.

That's unfortunate. Prime video had some shows that were good and it had a really cool feature where you got information about the actors on your phone while you were chromecasting. Everyone with lines got a card with their name, characters name (if it's revealed) and what they are known for. Video was the only part of the company that I am not actively boycotting but I guess its piracy all the way now.

To be fair, coupling free shipment with video was strange to begin with. So, they are decoupling it a bit. I do not care about Amazon video, why should I pay for it at all?

Cancel immediately. That's what I did, and I'm not looking back.

Would drop prime but I use it mainly for the shipping advantages and dont watch anything on it except 2 shows

Myself, I'm enjoying this.

Even gave myself a virtual pat on the back.

Then again I've been avoiding Amazon like the Plague for at least a decade: I still remember their deleting of ebooks that people bought from their Fire Tablets some years ago and don't trust those fuckers at all in any way form or shape.

Glad more people are figuring it out, and in a way that's mainly mildly infuriating.

PS: Recently discovered Smashwords and am buying tons of ebooks from them as I can download all of them in open formats. IMHO, merelly the clued-on minority ditching Prime won't hurt them enough to make up for the vast bulk of people who will just stick around and accept ads, so the best we can do to screw Amazon is to spread information about sites that can be used to get same kind of stuff Amazon sells, so this is my small contribution.

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Have not seen that in the Netherlands but I’m still dropping it. Haven’t seen anything we enjoyed watching for months (and Prime delivery still takes a week in most cases).

Wait til they find out I'm happy to pay nothing and still get the same content (often with less hassle).

All these streaming services seem to have forgotten that piracy is incredibly easy and a lot of use chose to use their services because they were originally convenient and affordable. Now that they're more fractured than ever and way more expensive, why would I bother?

Customers in the Republic of Ireland, Channel Islands, and Isle of Man won’t see ads in their experience at this time.

Well, I got the same email and I'm in RoI. I just agreed to cancel with my wife so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

On Christmas we wanted to watch a movie at my Family’s House and the Prime Video Servers where so fucked that we couldn’t watch it (it was an payed Movie). I generally think Prime Video and Music is shit.

Can someone tell me what the point of prime is at this point? I don't remember the last time a package arrived in under a week and now there are ads of a shitty streaming service?

Yup I Just cancelled F Amazon. Only had Prime for the streaming and the crappy Prime shipping that was always late.

I guess it's time to invest in a NAS hardware upgrade..

Cancelled my Prime account last year. Kept my Amazon account and since then, used it twice to order stuff I couldn't find anywhere else. Still got free shipping.

Amazon video? Never used it.

Are the ads to fuel future shows, or to recoup losses from the abhorrent money pit that is Rings of Power?

https://youtu.be/rimtaSgGz_4 just gonna leave this here

“Line no go up, we get more money from you and advertisers, now line go up again”

Now I have an excuse to drop Prime.

It had ads before movies from a long time, 4+ years or even more. The difference is before they were calling them "recommendations", now they're called "ads"

They were running forced movie "recommendations" (=ads) before movies to gather metrics to present to the advertisers

Fuck amazon

Looks like i cancelled it just in time. Bye bye Prime

Yo HOoOoO! 🦜

This is why cloud free content is always better.

movie-web.app

I remember not too long ago, maybe 4 or 5 years, I was having a big argument on reddit and getting killed for giving out about Prime's ads between episodes... I'd completely forgotten about them until now. They used to promote their other shows with 30 second ads between episodes and reddit, or at least wherever I was, were absolutely cool with it.

Jokes on them, we unsubscribed last month lol

Cancelled prime. Downloaded freevee since most stuff on prime was already ad driven freevee.

No noticeable change except a fatter wallet.

Well guess what, I'll retain my "access" to such content on Amazon, but if I'm arsed to watch one of their stupid shows I'll do that elsewhere anyway.

sounds like cable and pay for view

Would Blokada block these ads?

Won't help with live events, but over time, a NAS & a VPN is cheaper than streaming.

I hope this doesn't include movies and shows that have been fully purchased...

I cancelled my subscription. I've haven't felt this free in a while. I'm no longer a slave to Amazon.

We all need to write to the companies in the ads and tell them we're boycotting them for their participation in this scheme.

Make advertising with Prime a bad idea

Just don't use it and you won't have that problem.

Yes, this was in the news everywhere. Prime video just gets 2.99 more expensive. And they add this new tier with ads at the old monthly price.

Lol limewire

They gotta pay for their new medical coverage

I thought I would miss the free monthly games from Prime Gaming but even that’s gone downhill. For most of this year, everything I’d want to claim is something I already own or got free somewhere else already.

I refuse to pay for content and I refuse to pay for ads

Well prime video is a free service so it's not unexpected

I'll be paying and having no second thoughts about it.

I know you all LOVE to scream "shiver me timbers" at the drop of a hat but for me it's just to much hassle. At the end of a long day at work I don't want to have to figure out if my torrents are properly managed or use potentially questionable websites.

What I want to do is come home, press the microphone button on my shield remote, tell it what I want to watch and let it go. No hassle, no fuss, I don't care about anything so incredibly much that if it suddenly wasn't available then I NEED to have it at any cost. To me that kind of "have to have it right now and at all times forever and ever" mentality is just as bad as the rampant blind consumerism that the majority of humanity seems to embrace. If I want something that bad I'll find a way to purchase it physically.