197 points

Piracy is going to be as popular as ever.

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42 points

Great news!

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110 points

Why is it that these fucks get to increase their price and just to offer shittier service but if I want a raise at my job I’ve got to go above and beyond?

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44 points

Raises where you work are still based on merit? Damn!

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36 points

You guys get raises?

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29 points

Technically, no. The last few have been significantly below either measure of inflation. So in real terms, I’ve had a wage cut!

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2 points

They aren’t, it’s just an excuse.

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13 points

I’m not even sure how many streaming services make a profit at this point. They all seem to lower the quality everywhere at the same time.

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3 points

Your employer probably made you sign a contract, Amazon just changes their eula/terms&conditions. Amazon aren’t legally bound to keep their prices the same.

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104 points

[When launched] Prime Video with ads was given a “very light ad load,” providing subscribers “gentle entry into advertising that has exceeded customers expectations in terms of what the ad experience would be like." The executive pointed out that Prime Video with ads doesn’t show commercials in the middle of content. That could change next year.

Planned enshittification a la boiling frogs.

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31 points

I’ll just pirate their shit. I’ll pirate it so hard and I’ll do it with both middle fingers in the air. But not literally, I would definitely need both hands to pirate their content.

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We still need one person with a membership to download and post it all. Maybe we should start a fund to support their ever increasing membership costs…

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2 points

Pretty sure you can be a decent pirate with a hook for a hand buddy. Don’t let your dreams be dreams!

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1 point

If you train enough you can probably do it with your feet

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23 points

So are executives born with an asshole where their mouth belongs or do they surgically put it on when you get the gig?

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22 points

Humans, being deuterostomes, have an embryological stage where we are just anuses.

Some humans never develop past that.

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17 points

Light my arse, from the start they’ve interrupted with adverts for their own crap making it barely tolerable. Even on the adfree tier.

Canceled and no intention of ever going back. Measuring your ad load by American standards doesn’t work when your competition is netflix and iPlayer.

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The executive pointed out that Prime Video with ads doesn’t show commercials in the middle of content. That could change next year.

So regular TV is designed around the ads.

Cliff hangers before ads are done not only for the story, but to keep you there through the ad to get the outcome to the cliffhanger.

That partially went away with the no ad streaming.

Now that shitty behavior is going to come back.

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Now that shitty behavior is going to come back.

Of course not. Streaming sites are far too lazy for that. They’ll just cram the commercial into the middle of the show with no regard for the story. It’s the only way they’ll be able to put ads in the middle of shows not made to have ads.

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3 points

Ugh, you’re right. Enshittify to the max!

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8 points

That’s not even true, they interrupted episode 2 of Rings of Power for me.

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What did they interrupt the episode for? Because a number of companies have adopted the policy that, if the interruption is promoting something else offered by the platform - say, a different program, or another tier of service - that those interruptions aren’t really ads, because the company isn’t actually getting paid to air it. It absolutely looks and acts like an ad to the viewers, but the companies are trying to redefine the word.

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The executive pointed out that Prime Video with ads doesn’t show commercials in the middle of Content

That’s a blatant lie, it definitely does.

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Copying my reply to someone else:

What did they interrupt the episode for? Because a number of companies have adopted the policy that, if the interruption is promoting something else offered by the platform - say, a different program, or another tier of service - that those interruptions aren’t really ads, because the company isn’t actually getting paid to air it. It absolutely looks and acts like an ad to the viewers, but the companies are trying to redefine the word.

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I’m getting non-stop Samsung, insurance, food, and other kinds of ads in the middle of shows.

It makes me not want to use Prime. And in fact, I don’t anymore.

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1 point

Pretty sure it was some random Aldi commercial or sth.

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85 points

I will ramp down my use of amazon prime

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33 points

Hmm, unfortunately I can’t go negative.

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16 points

Get an RF jammer and block your neighbors’ wifi

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4 points

Lol.

I guess I could also slash the tires of the Amazon delivery truck when it drops off packages at my neighbor’s house. Then again, I’d prefer to not go to jail.

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7 points

I won’t. At least not via TPB.

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2 points

What do they even have that’s worth watching? It’s mostly garbage unless you’re into critical role. The boys shows? Oh no my poor hard drive space is going to be swamped with prime video mkvs lol

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4 points

I don’t know. I don’t really even watch anything anymore. I just like being snarky like that.

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74 points

Well, guess it’s time to get an eye patch and a pet parrot

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26 points

Do you know any sea shanties to go along with that?

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30 points

What shall we do with an ad filled service? What shall we do with an ad filled service? What shall we do with an ad filled service? Before we go crazy!

Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Before we go crazy!

Cancel our subscription with greatest haste now! Cancel our subscription with greatest haste now! Cancel our subscription with greatest haste now! Before we go crazy!

Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Before we go crazy!

Search for the show on pirate websites! Search for the show on pirate websites! Search for the show on pirate websites! Before we go crazy!

Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Before we go crazy!

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Yo ho ho and a terabyte of NAS!

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2 points

Aye!

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3 points

Is Alestorm close enough?

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3 points

Yarr harr fiddle dee dee

Stealing from Bezos is alright with me

Don’t watch their ads cause your time’s not for free

You are a pirate!

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4 points

I have already ramped up on that one on their last ad ramp up.

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2 points

I can’t stand it.

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