As if the Prime Video app couldn’t get any worse.
Cancel your sub and don’t renew it. This shit will only continue getting worse if people continue paying for it
I only have it because I have prime for shopping. If they were separate fees, I would not have streaming.
Same, and even that is getting worse. I feel like I have to fight with the search algorithm to actually find what I want for the best price. Most of the time, I could order something better from another retailer for a better price and still get free shipping. They don’t even do free returns anymore.
Same. And I still steal Prime videos. Why hassle?
Just because I have the service doesn’t mean I don’t also have backups some items.
I hope they know I’m not watching anything on their platform.
I started acquiring my prime videos elsewhere even though I have prime
Say it out loud. We’re both pirating content we’ve paid for. What a dumb system.
I deleted my Amazon account a couple years ago and haven’t looked back. Everyone has their own needs, but I’m just letting you know: it can be done!
I don’t pay for prime for the video though, I do it because 10 members of my family like the 2 day shipping lol the video is just icing that we honestly rarely use. Just “The Boys” and “Clarksons Farm” really
And become a pirate!
I actually get Prime TV series from the high seas even though I’m subscribed to Prime. It’s simply better UX this way.
It’s shocking how bad their ui is. I don’t get it.
I never used Prime Video, and I cancelled my Prime subscription in protest against this shit. Never going back.
I do the same with a bunch of content. It’s amazing how I’m able to run a streaming service from my basement that’s better than Disney or Amazon.
Amazon also horrifically mangles and compresses their video for seemingly no reason all the time.
It’s not for no reason, it’s to lower bandwidth costs. It may not be a reason that benefits you but there is definitely a reason.
Yup 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
I watched Fallout with torrentio, even though I have prime logged in on my TV.
It is insane to me how piracy is making a comeback because decision makers forgot Gabe’s lesson
What’s Gabe’s lesson?
“We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem,”
“If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate’s service is more valuable.”
And I haven’t pirated a game in I don’t even know how long now because of Steam.
TV show? Last week.
I’ve only pirated one game recently and that’s only because you can’t really get it legally anymore.
Fuck you Microsoft for killing games for windows live and killing a bunch of PC games in the process.
Fuck that BS :(
Jesus christ do these people not understand what “Pause” means? It means my roommate just walked in and wants to discuss something. It means we’re looking at the freeze frame to see some aspect of the shot. It means the same damned collection of events should happen any time a “Pause” control’s been triggered since the invention of playback.
Why are the UX people not fighting them on this? Why does design have to be about breaking everything these days?
UX vet here.
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UX usually never ever has the final say on this stuff. Product management, finance, and marketing almost always win out in most companies. Heck, in just about every agile training that is given, people are taught that product management gets the final vote on whether or not a feature gets prioritized.
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Amazon is famous for being driven by bean counters and analysts. Many of their product development decisions are driven by measurable short term incremental tests. Amazon has never really known how to build physical or digital experiences that people love.
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UX designers present to Directors and VPs; VPs and Directors speak to their C-level; C-level and Board want more money; VPs and Directors tell UX/UI team; UX team complains; designers fired; UI outsourced at 2x rate; Ad driven website achieved; Consumer Satisfaction drops; Revenue increases; Board rich; People poor; Sad
That all sounds great.
Here’s more ads
This deal keeps getting worse all the time.
Pray they don’t alter it any further
Our research shows that we can fill up to 80% of the visual field with ads before we induce seizures!
Pioneering a technique to insert ads into the middle of your seizures so we don’t have to worry about going over 80%
With the Amazon Alexa equipped with the GM-AL Vision System, we can time the ads between vision lapses and achieve nearly 95% ad prevalence in 91% of Prime subs.
With the Extended View VR headset equipped with new eye-opening visuals we are seeing 98% percent ad observation with only a 23% hospitalization rate for blindness and numbness of the zygomatic nerve.
Both the Amazon Alexa with GM-AL and Extended View headset will be available for $99.99 and $249.99, or $49.99 and $149.99 with a prime subscription, this next fiscal quarter.
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I watched Into The Spiderverse on Netflix yesterday. The audio was in English but the visuals were in German, which given the style was very distracting. I could not change the video source.
Piracy has always been a better experience, it was just more work for a short time.
For us it comes for free from the prime account. I still refuse to watch anything on Prime video, but I believe I’m not pirating because I technically do have access to all these movies/shows. That’s logical right?
Why pay for the prime account? What are you getting out of it?
Have you done the math of what you could do with $140 per year instead?
Can’t speak for them but in my part of the country shipping fees are pretty high, so prime was actually a great thing when they started doing it here, I do save more than I would if instead I shopped for a slightly cheaper version with crazy high shipping in another store.
Any streaming service that tries to combine ads+sub is just as greedy as cable TV and I can’t support that kind of shitty business practice. Ads free or sub no ads. Cancelled each service as they rolled out that trash. Currently only subbed to Criterion and thinking of resubbing to Shudder.
It’s easy though, just pay an extra 36 bucks per year, bringing your total prime sub cost to 176 bucks per year, very reasonable!
Just cancelled my prime today. I don’t watch the video, just use it for delivery
It said “But you’ve save €247 with your prime account since the start!”
Over the last six years I’ve paid about €270 for the prime subscription
Fuck off Amazon
Only reason I still have prime is simple - diapers. I save enough on them alone to justify it. But once that’s done (another year-ish), I don’t think it will be worth it anymore.
And yet, I still don’t use prime video. It’s just not a good experience, and obviously getting worse. And as I have kids, the management of what I’m ok with them seeing is way easier on JF than prime video.
Only makes it worse to remember that Amazon killed diapers.com by selling under cost until they couldn’t hold on any more and more we’re all worse off.
(another year-ish)
Glad to hear the IBS is clearing up
Once. It’ll better be one hell of an ad because it will lose them my subscription. I stopped watching television back in the late 90s because of all the ads, before even I had internet to watch pirated media. I don’t wear clothes with too visible logos. Just saying to illustrate how this ain’t an empty threat.
Losing a single customer probably doesn’t matter to them. But I hope Im not the only one?
I’d been looking for the nudge to cancel and the last round of ads did it for me.
Spending all that time and money setting up my homeserver is looking better and better every day…
Adverts are inevitable, these companies cannot help themselves. The temptation to double dip… A subscription from stupid saps and money from advertising. Soon the ads will creep into the other subscription tiers.
Piracy and ad blocking is the only escape.
When Amazon thinks “sub” means “submissive” rather than “subscriber”
and also doesn’t care that findom is a common limit for many subs
In Amazon c-suite, they just call it slavery. But you know, that’s “illegal”, hence; “sub”.
After almost 20 years as a Prime subscriber I unsubscribed about a week ago. It was the ads, I put up with a lot of nonsense over the years but the ads were the final insult.
I’m not paying full streaming service prices for a service with ads.
I was a long time subscriber as well, but canceled right before Christmas 2022. I missed it for about a week and then I realized most things I “needed immediately” from Amazon I could either 1) drive across town to purchase from brick and mortar or 2) actually just wait for it.
The end result has been me buying less things I don’t need, and buying the things I do need from local retailers (and of course big box stores), or ordering them from other online retailers since the shipping is comparable to Amazon.
2 years in and I don’t miss it at all, will never go back. I do want to watch the Fallout series though.
As they’ve turned into wish.com over the last few years I’ve bought less and less from them so I by the end I was mainly paying for the TV service.
I don’t see myself gong back either.
You can sail the high seas for Fallout. It’s worth it!
I have prime. I torrent their content anyway as they don’t play nice with vpn.
