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.
If you live near a regional transportation hub it probably won’t make a difference on your delivery times. We dropped prime when our “1 day” deliveries kept turning in 3 day deliveries and never saw a difference.
And honestly a lot of the stuff I used to get on there isn’t even cheaper on Amazon anymore. Half the time if I check the manufacturer website they’re having a sale or have no shipping costs or cover returns longer, something like that. YMMV, you know your situation and needs better than me.
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.
Guess the vast majority of people are “stupid saps”
I have prime. I torrent their content anyway as they don’t play nice with vpn.
Then why do you pay for it?
Free 2 day shipping
Um, you do realize you’re paying for the 2-day shipping with the subscription, right? It’s not free, it’s just part of your subscription.
I honestly just wait the extra couple days and make sure my orders are $35 or more to get free shipping. I usually keep a few non-essentials that I’ll need eventually ready to go so I can just add them on when needed (e.g. extra water filters is a common one).
Uhh yes of course. I literally said the only reason I pay for prime is the 2 day shipping, prime video is just an added benefit I guess.
But do you actually need it? How often is 2 days fine, but 5 days unacceptable? Are there local stores you could use instead to fill those needs?
Yeah, 2-day shipping is nice, and we had prime for years largely for that, but prime has steadily gotten more expensive and we eventually stopped seeing value. We cut it a couple years ago, and we’ve seen our spending shift to local stores, though we still use Amazon a fair amount. But at $15/month or $140/year ($11.67/month), we just weren’t ordering enough to make that worthwhile. Overnighting something occasionally is cheaper than subscribing to prime.
To me it’s worth it. I order a ton of Amazon, unfortunately it’s usually the best option to find niche items for my hobbies that can’t be found locally.
usenet, indexer, sonarr, sabnzbd
and vpn… just not one of the shitty ones
No need for VPN with usenet
What if the Usenet provider is compromised?
Your chances of this is about the same as the VPN provider being compromised of not lower.
Have you ever heard of anyone at all get in trouble for using usenet due to the provider being compromised?
Hell, most providers have a European endpoint. Just use that if that paranoid.
Citation on the first paragraph 😂. Both are definitely weak points. Personally I just yolo torrents on my own IP. The only thing that happens here is an angry letter in the mail anyway. Only time I ever got one was when I redeployed Medusa and I oopsed and had public trackers enabled from the default config.
I’m one of the people that canceled when they announced they were going to be putting ads in prime. I’m doing just fine without it.
On a completely unrelated note, the *arr suite is a pretty nice collection of services.