Piracy is going to be as popular as ever.
Great news!
Why is it that these fucks get to increase their price and just to offer shittier service but if I want a raise at my job I’ve got to go above and beyond?
I’m not even sure how many streaming services make a profit at this point. They all seem to lower the quality everywhere at the same time.
Your employer probably made you sign a contract, Amazon just changes their eula/terms&conditions. Amazon aren’t legally bound to keep their prices the same.
Well, guess it’s time to get an eye patch and a pet parrot
Do you know any sea shanties to go along with that?
What shall we do with an ad filled service? What shall we do with an ad filled service? What shall we do with an ad filled service? Before we go crazy!
Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Before we go crazy!
Cancel our subscription with greatest haste now! Cancel our subscription with greatest haste now! Cancel our subscription with greatest haste now! Before we go crazy!
Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Before we go crazy!
Search for the show on pirate websites! Search for the show on pirate websites! Search for the show on pirate websites! Before we go crazy!
Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Before we go crazy!
Aye!
Is Alestorm close enough?
I have already ramped up on that one on their last ad ramp up.
I can’t stand it.
Thank you amazon for encouraging piracy
I’m not even sure it encourages piracy. That would assume amazon has content people want to watch.
Name an amazon show…
See? You can’t do it. Nobody can! It’s like trying to name lost media from the silent movie generation. Nobody would know what you were talking about if you did name one.
Amazon as a company sucks enough on its own. No need to make shit up.
See? You can’t do it.
I can. I can even name multiple really good shows. But you don’t want to hear them. You want to fabricate a narrative.
American Gods, Rings of Power, Good Omens, the Expanse, Man in the high castle, the Last of us, etc etc.
It’s not always as good of a selection as other services, but it’s got a fair few gems on there and a good amount of back catalogue films and tv shows that are fab :-)
And the fact that they collect so much stuff that would otherwise not be available at all (usually because its only on some random foreign streaming service and refuses to work with netflix) is where they really shine.
That said, I immediately stopped using it when they brought adverts in to the paid subscription. I’m not paying to watch adverts, sorry, no.
It still boggles my mind how paying for ads became acceptable. Not only is the company making money from the advertisers for the ad space, they now get to make money off the population for viewing the ads. This is a crazy world we live in.
Also The Boys, Invincible, and Wheel of Time.
Oh yeah, forgot about those! I enjoyed the boys and invincible a lot, I never got around to watching wheel of time, I will eventually, but I’ve heard nothing particularly good (or that it’s middling at best) so I’ve shoved it to the back of my to watch list.
I personally hated WoT.
If nothing else it’ll make a decent bit of filler before something better like Firefly Season 2 comes out!
I think amazon actually has the most enjoyable stuff to watch for me. Not that I pay for it.
The Boys maybe? (Idk I don’t watch Amazon shows)
Btw if you’re gonna put a question like that in your comment, at least make us answer it before making your point. Makes for better conversations methinks.
I take your point. Generally it might be correct. However, Jean Claude Van Johnson was great! Comedy. If you don’t know it, you should watch it. I can’t name anything else however.
Ones that haven’t been mentioned yet is Clarkson’s Farm and the Grand Tour.
Right, sadly…
That’s okay, I’ll ramp up my piracy of Amazon-exclusive shows in 2025 too.
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There’s quite a few worth watching besides what’s already been mentioned.
- Patriot
- Bosch
- Goliath
- The Night Manager
- Sneaky Pete
- Reacher
- Jack Ryan
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith
- Good Omens
- The Man In The High Castle
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Uploaded was pretty good too.
Clarkson’s Farm. And until recently, The Grand Tour.
Can’t think of any others from the last few years.
There’s still one last Grand Tour episode coming out
For real? I thought the last one where they ended where the show began was the last.
Apparently I missed its release date entirely, which I blame on Amazon adding commercials because I haven’t used it in months.
Ah, I actually use my Nvidia Shield home screen for that, lol. I selected all services that I want to keep an eye on and it shows me the latest or most popular of the moment. It’s not perfect but it seems to work well enough when i already have my Sonarr keeping an eye out for the ones I’m already subscribed to. Then Plex will let me know when a new one gets downloaded.
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Off the top of my head, the only one that I’ve watched in recent memory was Fallout.
Stopped watching netflix because they banned sharing accounts and £18 (24 USD) monthly was too much for just one person. Cheaper plans didn’t have 4K or 5.1 audio, so it felt like a waste when I couldn’t even use my setup as it is meant to be used.
Never watched prime because I refuse to pay for something then still see ads.
Now I either source stuff by other means (🏴☠️🦜) and put it on my media server, or I use BBC iPlayer. Not sure if that’s a thing outside of the UK, but zero ads and decent quality programming is something I’m happy to pay their fee for, especially when it also goes towards funding ad-free TV, radio, news, sport, podcasts, etc.
It’s fucked how greed has completely ruined the streaming market. Back in ~2010 it felt like the market was going in such a positive direction.
Same thing happened with cable decades ago.
The public TV was full of ads and bad programs. Cable offered you pay them for no ads, good series and new movies. Then the prices rose, then the ads started, then the programs turned to shit as much or even more than before.
Streaming just went the same path.
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I want to congratulate streaming services. They got me off torrenting for a decade but multiplication, price hike and general enshitification has gotten me to install an *arr stack. My only media subscription now is $5 a month for a VPN.
So congrats guys, you’ve become the new cable and we’ve come full circle 👍.
Just in time for me to have already cancelled my Prime membership last month. I’ve also not purchased from Amazon at all since then. Plan working as intended?!
I do have a prime account as do use Amazon, but we haven’t watched a second of prime TV since they put ads in the included video subscription.
For some reason this was the straw that broke the camels back for me. I setup a NAS, Plex server and all the arr apps. It’s been amazing. Haven’t looked back.
I’m using plex but still hosting it on my desktop which is a little inconvenient at times. I really should set up an always available NAS
I watch their content, I just dont pay them for it
When they announced the ads it was just the incentive I needed to quit Prime totally. I don’t miss it. I already was wary of buying from Amazon due to the sketchy sellers and fake products, so I’m glad buying my stuff elsewhere except when I can’t find something somewhere else, which has been rare.
Same, dumped them, but they resubscribed me twice weeks later to Prime after I got two confirmation emails I was cancelled
Looks like I cancelled at the right time. They seem to forget that we in fact do have a choice at the end of the day. And my choice is to sail the high seas.
They’ve been increasing the ad load the whole time. The most I’ve seen so far is 5 ads. Streaming will return to broadcast TV convention sooner than people think probably. 15 minutes of ads per hour.
I canceled prime as soon as they introduced ads into prime video. You should do the same.
You’ll be less tempted to buy shit from them as an added benefit!
I know it’s only fractionally better, but I’ve started using AliExpress more for shit that I’d buy on Amazon in the past. Delivery takes a couple of weeks, but that’s had the added bonus of making think about how much I really need the thing I’m ordering.
But yeah, we canceled Prime when they added adverts. We didn’t really watch much on there, but it gave us the bump we needed to stop giving Amazon £10 a month, even if we didn’t order anything.
I also started to use AE, I feel a bit queasy about it for no good reason, but for some stuff AE is much cheaper and I don’t see the point of giving 30% to a middle man selling Chinese stuff they got of Alibaba on Amazon.
What I discovered is that they have warehouse in Europe so even though it’s not next day shipping, most stuff take no longer than a week sometime 3 days. I do remember the time when everything took a month or more.
Their app, though… Designed by a fucking lunatic, and the amount of scammy shit in there is astounding. Like products showing for $3 but when checking the product you realize the $3 is for an accessory and the product shown in the picture cost 20 times that. Most products have 3 or 4 variants which can be completely different items. There are literally no way to easily know what you’re buying without carefully trying to decipher broken English and voluntary confusing description.
Yeah, the app is batshit and has got much weirder over the past year or so. It’s now rammed full of competitions and ways to waste your time trying to get discounts that you’ll never actually achieve.
There’s also some really odd stuff on offer on there, which I kind of enjoy finding.
Is it weird that I have prime but I pirate still?
It’s just not a good experience…
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Yup, I had it for a bit when we used Prime, but the experience sucked so I naturally just didn’t use it. Then I realized I’m only using shipping and Twitch subs, and that certainly wasn’t worth the cost, so I cancelled.
Screw 'em.
I do the same. Their video app was shit before the ads.
I have free prime through my ISP. I still pirate the content. I started even before the full blown ads, when they had “previews” of other shows and movies.
