BoisZoi,
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I plan on cancelling Prime this year.

The only reason I haven’t is that my siblings need to use my account sometimes.

Got_Bent, (edited )

Things to do today:

  1. Pay mortgage - done
  2. Pay electric bill - done
  3. Cancel Amazon - and done
FlavoredButtHair,
@FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world avatar

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

Got_Bent, (edited )

How do I do that on my TV? Is that a thing? I’ve got whatever the cheapest “smart” TV was in Walmart maybe three or four years ago with a Roku attached.

Not terribly savvy in these matters.

Thanks

Edit: Looks like I can do it via my router. I’m away for the weekend, so I’ll look into this next week. Thanks again for the idea

FlavoredButtHair,
@FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world avatar

Yes Mullvad does have router configuration files. It’s only like $5.33/mo. Also your streaming catalog changes based on locations. Like for Netflix, Hulu and etc.

Scrollone,

You don’t even need a VPN if you live in a country that doesn’t care

rho50,

Sonarr + Radarr + Transmission-OpenVPN + Ombi + Plex.

For the past ~5 years or so, I’ve had the choice of a polished web UI to pirate any movie or TV show on demand. Up until the past few months, I have still paid for:

  • Netflix
  • Amazon Prime
  • Apple TV+ (as part of Apple One)
  • Disney+
  • YouTube Premium

… because their products and recommendation engines were more user-friendly for my family and I. Since the pattern of price gouging in the last 6-12 months, I now subscribe to:

  • Netflix (cancelling this imminently)
  • Apple Music (Apple One cancelled)

I hope the shameless cash grabs result in a mass exodus of users and really hurt these platforms.

theshatterstone54,

I’ve recently reached the point where I could barely afford some of them… if they were as good as they were a year ago. Seems I’m sticking to the Seven Seas and my downloaded music library.

psychothumbs,

This will cause me to torrent the Amazon shows I want to watch even though I’ll likely still have access to an Amazon account to watch them on.

siravious,

Welp… this isn’t very strategically sound. Within the same service, they want to motivate me to consolidate shipping to Amazon delivery day or no rush. Guess who’s not using those methods anymore? Fuck you amazon, gonna cost you multiples of that $3 in shipping you greedy fucks.

DeadNinja,
@DeadNinja@lemmy.world avatar

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.

linearchaos,
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

They effed up back in the day by not giving me a client for my phone or my roku. Wanted me to buy their hardware. I already have prime, couldn’t even tell you two movies/shows that debuted on it.

AceQuorthon,

Portable HDD with pirated movies and shows FTW

Benchamoneh,

NAS and Jellyfin when at home brother

pan_troglodytes,

i only use it because it comes with Prime, which I do use, quite a bit.

UltraMagnus0001,

I love Bosch, but since they made it Bosch legacy with ads I started pirating it. and I have prime.

mrfriki,

Unless you pay extra… or unsubscribe.

Mon0,

Funny the service in the worst state yet and they start serving ads. Even on their newest hardware this service is horrible. It takes ages to switch to UHD. There is a bug where a show will stop buffering and then the show will jump a few minutes forward. Crashing lagging, not being able to select always play in og language and set a subtitles to one language…

Drbreen,

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

chitak166,

No, they need to maximize profit.

🤡

Woht24,

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.

crsu,

Time to get a library card and read some books

sebinspace,

My library even has audiobooks, fuck you audible!

crsu,

I’ll up the ante and say fuck you amazon you baldy piss jug lex luthor motherfucker

sebinspace,

Damn man, go off!

TGTX,

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!

chitak166,

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

Make sure you have Adnauseam or uBlock Origin installed.

Gestrid,

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

JokeDeity,

It’s already one of the worst streaming services, there’s nothing I care to watch on there and anything I do want that they have available costs money on top of the membership, plus the UI sucks.

Rodneyck,

I have been meaning to cancel my Prime membership. Prices are high, shipping hardly gets anything to me on time. Who can find anything on Prime Video with their horrible interface? Not worth the price. Time to put on my pirate’s hat and save a buck.

Ookami38,

Ya know, I barely shop on Amazon anymore, I should go ahead and cancel that…

Vladkar, (edited )

The only Prime show I can even think of is The Boys, which is worth a month subscription once a year or so whenever a new season drops. With so much competition and so little content, you’d think these streaming services would start offering better incentives for long-term subscriptions. Instead, they keep raising rates. Baffling.

MrVilliam,

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.

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