• Tischkante@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    33·
    1 year ago

    This isn’t even really normal entshitification, they added videos and some music cheap Spotify knockoff to their fast delivery flat rate. Nobody asked them to.

    Then they slowly raised the price, essentially locking everyone that just wanted free fast delivery into a video streaming service and kept increasing the price.

    They did this to force existing subscribers into their “new” business idea of a video streaming service, when they couldn’t yet compete with the competition back then. Good news for them, their competitors are shit now.

    Now they can include advertisements in it too and add more expensive advertisement free tiers. Essentially increasing the price again, but hiding it so people can’t ask for subscription fees back in Europe.

    Do they really think most people have forgotten they just wanted a fast delivery flat rate? They will never offer their delivery flat rate without video and all that stuff again, only if a legislature would force them.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      And increasingly I’m finding that they’re making me place a minimum order size to get the free shipping. You know - like shipping was without prime.

  • Polar@lemmy.caEnglish
    32·
    1 year ago

    People use prime video? I find that half the shit I click on, it tells me it’s not included with prime and I have to buy it…

  • kingthrillgore@lemmy.mlEnglish
    24·
    1 year ago

    Just in time for me to finish Invincible and fuck off

    They aren’t doing it because they have to, they’re doing it to make money.

  • Carter@feddit.ukEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    How do people think paying for a service and still being served ads is acceptable?

    • PlatinumSf@pawb.socialEnglish
      62·
      1 year ago

      To be fair, Prime Video has always just been a free perk attached to prime (and with all the other ‘perks’ combined you could basically consider it free). For example I get an extra 3% back on all my Amazon orders by being a prime member. At the current cost of prime and just with the home supplies I order w/ subscribe and save, it pays for itself. That’s not to say I’m happy with this, but in actuality they’re fairly well positioned with the product to make this move and have most of the user base be merely disgruntled.

  • cooopsspace@infosec.pubEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    It’s literally a race to the bottom on streaming services before we eventually end up with cable in an app. Or rather multiple apps.

    Fuck I hate this timeline.

  • Nommer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    I just cancelled. Was thinking about doing it during the last price hike but never got around to it. Good thing they announced it now since it was going to renewed on the 15th of October.

    • Tacos_y_margaritas@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Be careful when you try to order stuff from Amazon without prime. They try to coerce you into getting prime about 4 times during the checkout process. It’s so scummy.

  • hornedfiend@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    For the first time I was contemplating cancelling my prime subscription,but now I believe the contemplation is over.

  • uzay@infosec.pubEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    “We aim to provide a meaningfully worse experience than the sailors of the seven seas are getting,” Amazon insisted.

  • XTL@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Prime already has ads and they are obnoxious. They are their own ads. Is outside ads the new development or what? New tiers?