Amazon trying to trick my mom constantly into subscribing to it’s pay channels and the declining quality of Netflix content added to them placing ads everywhere just drove me to set up an old laptop with stremio!
I never stopped …
I tried to use prime recently, they’ve put ads in movies??? It’s such a shitty nightmare. If I’m gonna watch something for free anyway, and I have the choice between watching it for free with no ads or watching it for free where at some point randomly during the film it cuts to very shouty adverts, I’m probably gonna pick the less annoying one.
Netflix displays Ads now when you PAUSE a movie. It’s getting BAD.
Shut the front door are you serious? What are those ads like? Little square ones or like full on videos??
100% serious. The whole screen becomes a still image Ad for a product with a QR code fixed in place on the right side.
If you wanted to pause a movie to read a detail on screen like I did, you get a full screen ad instead. It was quite a surprise.
Hahaha what?? God that’s so frustrating. That feels so gross.
Paying but having ads is outrageous
With Prime you are paying for the delivery really and everything else was extra, prime video was always going to end up like this, they were just eating the cost to get more prime subs and hoping people wouldnt unsub later.
prime doesn’t even make sense anymore for delivery. i got rid of it years ago when they would keep delaying deliveries for a week that were 2 day guaranteed. turns out when your business model depends on having a manageable amount of customers then eventually you can’t actually keep up with demand. if I’m going to wait anyways and be gaslit by made up estimates it’s better to just order direct from manf and remove the gaslighting bit. and in the case where an item is only sold through Amazon, they already offer free shipping for large orders or it’s $6 and they have to refund that if they break their guarantee instead of me paying hundreds to be refunded with audible credits?
why do people still use prime for delivery, is it just to feel secure?
Isn’t that what happened to cable TV back in the day? ⚰️
A friend gave me access to his Amazon Prime Video and yeah, not going to watch anything with ads. You pay and still have ads?
Fuck off, neoliberalist arseholes.
Nah I don’t think I pay, I think the ads are just a free tier thing but it’s still not actually competition, other than convenience I guess which is a persuasive argument to a lot of people – I know I’m not immune from paying or putting up with shit for convenience 😂
Actually , the paid tier of amazon has ads. Yes. You pay AND watch ads.
Holy shit. Who is paying for that??
Sorry, it was a rhetorical question. As in “Amazon feel it’s reasonable to charge us and then advertise? Because it’s not.”
Oh I see lol - I think netflix also do the same, I remember hearing there are “cheaper” ad-supported tiers now?
Slaves to the line going up. Can’t just have a stable business model!
I tried to use prime recently, they’ve put ads in movies??
Maybe it depends on the region, but I don’t think I’ve had an ad during a film in Australia. They definitely play them beforehand though, as well as in TV shows.
Eh, it’s not even the price, I’m paying way more for piracy than streaming services would ever cost.
It’s really the content splitting that annoys me the most. I don’t want to keep a fucking spreadsheet of which show airs where, I like all my shit in one place and not having it randomly removed when some licensing deal runs out.
No only which show airs where, which is already annoying. You also must keep track of each season. I wanted to watch The apothecary diaries. But netflix has only the first season, the second is somewhere else.
Meanwhile, anyomi has both seasons available for download instantly and is completely free.
When i still had Netflix i remembered series also to become randomly fractured. Season 1 is available. Then Season 4 and 5 and some weird “best-off” compilation or so.
Or you only have the sequel of a movie, but not the first one.
In practice this drastically diminishes the value of the offering. Imagine you see a set of fancy porcelain at a market but the cups are missing the saucers.
A few years ago, I had netflix. Every series was aired there. I could pay for a single fee and have mostly all entertainment I’d like. Piracy was in minimum levels, it was less convenient than netflix.
Today, whenever a new show is presented, I have to ask which one of the many services will have it, and for how long.
On the other hand, stremio has every show, in as many devices as you want, and costs 0.
Tell me, why should I go back to paying when the free alternative offers a better service?
I had AmazonPrime, Disney+, Netflix and Sky TV. Sky did a fairly good job of integrating the other services in the one interface so you could search across all platforms.
But then Paramount+ and AppleTV started with big shows and finally my income plummeted, so back to the high seas I went, just as easy as Sky and doesn’t cost £200 a month.
Doubt I’ll ever go back to paying for so many services, and it’s only their greed to blame.
I’m not sure if I could ever go back to paying for these services unless we went back to square 1 where there was one provider, was cheap and had all the shows.
But even then, I doubt I’d fall for it, since most probably, by then I’d have to verify my age and I’m not really keen on sending my ID or picture to any random company to check that I’m old enough to watch “dangerous” content.
I always stayed with ddl sites, where you can watch TV and movies in the browser for free.
But I only ever watch the same three or four shows.
To be fair, Netflix (when it was the main hub) was more than a few years ago now - but in any case, they didn’t /have everything/ and there was overall less TV being made per year then.
You are right. But what I meant is that it had all I needed. In europe before netflix there was only sat TV (costing a fortune), so when netflix arrived it opened a world to many people.
They expected this to happen. They figured it would still turn them a profit
No shit, unlimited capitalisation of every IP making things inaccessible unless you are paying 30 a month to the correct provider may do that.
