Cancled my prime because of this.
I don’t even watch their stuff, it was just the principal of the thing. I’m not really missing prime even for shipping because it’s caused me to shop less and only buy if I really really need it.
I was watching fallout when it released, and out of 8 episodes only 4 had ads, and the ads were 30 seconds long before the episode started, and then nothing after that.
I’m not excusing them injecting ads, but at least it’s not like YouTube where it’s completely random
I will simply never pay + ads. Free and ads… Ok. I’ll fight you if your ads are obnoxious.
But, as soon as I’m paying for a service I will never accept even a 1sec ad.
You never had cable tv?
Yes, 20 years ago. Not sure what idiotic point you’re trying to make.
If you can’t figure out their fairly obvious point maybe they’re not the “idiotic” one champ.
Try again.
Why tf do people resort to insults? Are you really that weak minded?
Just fyi, you can pay for ad free prime video. What is bundled with the rest of prime at no extra cost includes ads.
No. I had prime. Then they raised the price. I was like ok… THEN they were like we need an extra 1.99 or you’ll have to watch ads on top of the prime price.
That was the end of prime for me.
I thank the one who record the show and upload it. You have my respect.
I always think of these heroes. Their hard work will never go unnoticed
I will never be as big a hero as the uploaders. I humbly thank them by downloading and seeding for months on end. It’s small but I do what I can!
When this announcement was made, I canceled prime. I don’t even use Prime video. It’s the principle.
I did use it, and the music service. They destroyed both in less than a year, so I cancelled it the same day they announced ads in video. They already had an ad tier, called FreeVee and it was insufferable.
As a bonus, I now don’t buy anything off Amazon, since I no longer get the delivery benefits. Fuck that company.
Reinventing cable and reinvigorating piracy.
Won’t find many people shedding tears for the legacy cable companies or the legacy taxi industry. Two of the most hated industries before they got disrupted.
I may be an outlier, but I liked old taxis you order by a phonecall more than drivers juggling five different apps and coming to your place with an according delay for they try to be a delivery guy and a taxist for many companies just to keep a positive balance; cable was great in Russia too, for one Discovery channel alone could completely capture the day of a young teen like me, unlike what it is now. YMMV.
There was nothing more anxiety inducing than waiting for a cab you scheduled when you have a flight to make, because about half the time they just wouldn’t show up.
It’s so baffling that even american cities often don’t make it feasible to get to and from the airport by public transport, that’s the one destination where no one in their right mind is ever going to drive themselves to.
In an even slightly sane world all american cities would at the very least have usable bus services for getting to and from the airport, if nothing else.
Did your phone call taxis actually show up close to on time? Almost every person I’ve talked to about them had the same experience of them often being hours late if they came at all with no notification of the delay. Any time you called dispatch they’d say they’re on their way.
Although it’s anecdotal and can’t act like statistics, mostly, yes. In rush hours or in the night I called different operators to get the better deal, but I do so too with apps. The weirdest time happened when apps just started to come and drivers halved between two, so both was undermanned. Now, suddenly, the problem is tech, because it enables drivers out of here navigate the streets by GPS, so they can work without any experience on our streets unlike phone-taxi guys who seemingly did. Another, and more dangerous problem is that apps pay even less to their drivers or even lend them cars for a high price, so they work much more, and I have at least three drivers visibly fall asleep behind the wheel. Gig-app economy feels even worse than shitty practices that were before.
Yeah i remember tacos well. On hold, then a 40 minute Wait, no guarantee they’d call you when they arrive, so lots of waiting outside.
I did befriend a cabbie eventually who gave me her personal number to avoid that shit, but that’s just a personal story i included for no reason other than I’m high
Face it, it’s not like cable and taxis were very consumer friendly anyways.
That’s the whole point of the post. They’re making things shit again, just like cable and taxis.
Oh fuck off with this. Don’t victimize cable companies. They charged an insane amount and offered no innovation. $100+ a month for live TV that had more commercials than actual content is still a shit deal.
Streaming was great until everyone decided they wanted a piece of it. Fragmentation of the market drove enshitification.
They aren’t victimizing them, they are saying streaming companies are turning into them
