Thats the end of me watching it then. Fuck paying for a sub and still having ads shoved in my face. Fuck paying for anything and having it advertise at me.
this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2023
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not to mention that half the screen is taken up by shows you need to pay for seperately anyway.
Did you cancel your subscription?
I will do what I did with Netflix and wait for them to actually implement it. Haven’t seen ads yet. I heard about Netflix changing their sharing policy for like a year before it happened, but when it did I canceled that day.
I mean, it's not like they're hiding the date. Lol
It's a yearly subscription. You're going to pay for an extra year for no reason?
I actually didnt realize it was yearly, its my gf’s account, sooooooo I guess I will go tell her to cancel haha
Love it when people talk shit while having zero idea what they're talking about.
Stay classy.
Well you wanna get real technical about it, I said I would stop watching originally - and I will stop, I have zero patience for ads. Then I said fuck paying for it, which I’ve never done. Stay hypocritical bub
Lol what does the word "hypocritical" mean to you?
You are super classy
No, I'm afraid that has nothing to do with that words meaning either.
The enshittification will continue until morale improves
Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free.
Believe it or not, straight to cancellation
I got Prime for the shipping, so I won't cancel. If there is anything I really want to watch...🏴☠️
Yeah it's a weird position to be in. I'll be paying for the service but pirating the few shows I watch.
Probably more common than you might think
Yeah, same here, though I think I'll be reevaluating the true utility of Prime next time the subscription is up for renewal since Prime delivery tends to mean "sometimes in the next week" now rather than the original two days.
I know I for one only have ever taken advantage of the shipping benefits. That alone makes the 120$/year worth it for me. Anything else is just cherries on top lmao
Exactly
I'm planning to do the same thing with Paramount+ (got it free with Walmart+)
this story inspired me to create my own home server for yohoho as my nye resolution
It's pretty straightforward after you wrap your head around how it works!
For video, Jellyfin is a fantastic FOS sotware: very user friendly, simple, and does what you need. Downside is it's not available natively on all OSs (Samsung's Tizen stands out..). Plex is free and works well too, but you'll need to navigate some bloatware. It's available almost everywhere though.
Have already canceled last month
More people need to cancel their subscription. (They most likely won't though) I am tired of corporations getting away with charging for ads. Not a trend that should ever have been allowed, imo.
I might cancel. The main reason we got it in the first place was for Amazon Fresh during the worst of covid.
I chose to cancel a while back. I stopped using prime video, (really didn't like prime original ads at the start of everything), and usually didnt order enough to warrant the cost for free shipping. Especially since it would take a week or more before delivery.
Literally no one has prime for the streaming service
I assume these will be as carefully and expertly placed as YouTube ads.
They must want people to cancel, because this is how you get people to cancel. I’m using Amazon less for shipping, there’s so many knockoffs these days, I’m not interested in returns.
The race to the bottom continues
Time to find a good seed for The Expanse.
Or pay the $2.99 extra for commercial free.
Oh, it's a one-time fee?
Doubt it. I assume it's a monthly premium.
It is, I just got the e-mail. Gonna see what I'm not missing when I cancel my Prime membership after it expires.
How much are decent VPNs these days?
Mullivad is cheap and actually works. Nord sucks, PIA was bought out by an Israeli "ex" spyware company years ago, the rest idk about.
ProtonVPN and iVPN is some goooood shit
I thought Nord was supposed to be a good service. What happened?