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    Fuck Amazon anyway, but I used to use it when I was mooching off a friend’s prime subscription and I gotta say, this is probably a bug not intentional. Whole interface was nothing but bugs.

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    Just don’t subscribe, easy. We had enough with Amazon and USA.

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      I didn’t have prime for the streaming and hardly used it. Until Christmas when I just wanted Christmas bullshit on in the background and prime decided to cut in mid sentence to run an obnoxiously loud ad. So that’s how we finally cancelled prime.

      Also, paying to watch ads was how cable worked.

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      Amazon gives out free prime all the time.

      I think I’ve had 2 one month free primes, and 1 free week of prime, so far this year. Of course I take it, and burden their servers by leaving shit streaming as often as I can, with absolutely no return on investment for them.

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        with absolutely no return on investment for them.

        They show ads unless you pay for the super plus version of Prime. So by streaming they get ad revenue from the companies advertising even if you don’t watch the ads. The companies pay for the ads by increasing the price of what they sell- and they don’t sell only on Amazon but everywhere.

        So when you buy a bag of chips at the local store, some of that money is going to Amazon because you had their streaming on.

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          No.

          What is doing more harm to the environment is people paying for prime, and giving amazon the money to build more data centers, and to drain more drinking water supplies to cool them. 🙄

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    ‘ave ye thought about finally joinin’ the crew ‘n settin’ sail?

    Scuttlin’ the service be the only language they understand. In addition ye get wider choice o’ better quality movies 'n series.

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    Search amazon for “shoes, size 13”, you’ll get anything but shoes in a proper size

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      I haven’t used Amazon in such a long time but I figured they would have made it better with LLMs and stuff.

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    The whole app is a mess.

    • You can give something a thumbs down, and it will continue to suggest it under “We think you’ll like”.
    • You can hide a series or a movie, and it will pop up again a day later in suggestions as if you didn’t do a damned thing.
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      The thumbs don’t matter to Bezos. Just like the rest of your opinions.

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        It’s all algorithms driving engagement and a thumbs down is engagement.

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        I’d expected him to care more whether i want to continue paying for his product though

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      Nah, its the Hydra of streaming.

      You subscribe, thinking you’ve won, and you just have 9 other things pop up to have to subscribe to under prime to actually watch what you want to watch.

      Gotta have subscriptions in your subscriptions, so you can subscribe while subscribing.