Starting early next year, the ad-option will be the default for those that subscribe to the e-commerce giant’s membership option.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/amazon-commercials-prime-video-ads-1235598166/
It will look like piracy
Arrrr
Back in the day, I stopped pirating shit and had Netflix. That covered 95% of the content I wanted and was EASY. As more and more streaming services popped up and the prices increased while content floundered I’ve gone back to pirating. I’m not about to pay $100 a month for a handful of streaming services that can and will yank their content at any time. I really don’t WANT to do it this way, but it’s again easier and faster with more access to content if I sail the high seas. So here we are, full circle back to where the OG (pre-Netflix) cord cutters started.
You’ve taken the words right out of my mouth!
I was happy to pay for Netflix, I thought it was very reasonable that I paid for 4 streams and 1 of those streams was at my elderly parents house, Netflix lost us the second we couldn’t do that.
My family and parents still get to enjoy Netflix content, via torrents and Plex, but Netflix no longer get to enjoy my monthly payment.
Ultimately Netflix blocking families from sharing an account forced me to realise my home internet uplink was fast enough to stream 1080 to my parents, and a friend, with ease.
So I guess I can thank Netflix for that.
Same. In reality, a dozen of my closet friends and family benefit from the expanded Plex server I run thanks to these greedy distributors of digital media.
I love my Plex server. Right now I only have 2 concurrent streams running but I usually have 3-5. Remote users do take a hit because my 20Mbps upload isn’t fantastic but I’ve yet to hear a complaint, lol.
It’s a tale as old as time.
Well, I barely need it for shipping anymore, and I am not going to pay extra for no ads, so I guess this is my stop and I’ll just walk myself to the docks from here and take to the high seas.
Ahoy matey!
This group is the outlier. The reality is most people will either accept ads or pay the $3 extra per month for the content they already had ad-free before.
Because of these price hikes, I’m slowly paring down the streaming services I subscribe to. I get Disney+ and Hulu “free” with my phone plan. I’m only subscribing to Paramount+ for new Star Trek: Lower Decks episodes at this point, and once this season wraps up I’m out for at least a year. Apple TV+ brought me back for the MLS season, but I’ll just cancel again until they bring back Severance or the next season starts.
I used to subscribe to Netflix. I used to subscribe to Max. HBO used to be appointment television for me, but now it’s all superheroes and reality TV.
In earlier times, I subscribed to VRV (Crunchyroll). I subscribed to Hidive. I even subscribed to Seeso.
And in three months when MLS playoffs end I’ll just be down to the two bundled options plus Prime (now with ads)…
One subscription service at a time is the way I do it also. Once subscriber growth numbers start to stagnate in the future, as is inevitable, I feel a new feature will be signup fees to discourage churn.
It’s a boiling the frogs thing. Eventually, that $3/mo price will creep up to $7/mo and then $12/mo and then $15/mo
🏴☠️ it is then
Is anyone paying for Prime just for the video content?
I was using it for both, I guess? Been subscribed for years. Definitely going to re-evaluate it based on shipping alone, because I’m not going to pay to watch ads.
I was up until a year ago.
The shipping bonuses were long gone before that. I never saw another reason to have it than those two services.
