3 points

I was contemplating to subscribe to Prime as they have some interesting (for me) exclusive stuff, but was hesitating to add just another subscription.

Thank you, Amazon, to make the decision so easy - if even a paid subscription is riddled with ads, it is a 100% no-buy for me.

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

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15 points

Meanwhile, me, pirating like a chad

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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.

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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.

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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.

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