I just canceled Amazon prime. The ad insert into prime video was the last straw.
this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2024
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we encountered this for the first time over the weekend.
Hitting "play" on a service I pay for, and then seeing 50 seconds of unrelated ads was unbelievably jarring.
I'll admit/concede that we aren't dropping Prime, we use too much of it all around. But that night? I immediately fired up the Ol' Blackbeard and downloaded the rest of the season. Screw that noise.
Yep, same here. We're not cancelling because Video is just a side benefit, but it certainly accelerated my plans to build a home media server
Once my home server is properly up and trucking prime is getting cancelled for sure
If I'm paying for the service I'm not getting ads, the moment that changes I'm jumping ship. Amazon hit me with ads, I'm jumping ship
Edit: at this point I just need the case and my server will be up and running
I had an old case, PSU, and GPU lying around. Got the last of the other parts I needed on Friday and spent the whole weekend figuring out Proxmox and Authentik. Now I have those, along with PiHole and Plex, and I'm currently SFTPing my media collection from my desktop to the server. Im still acquiring the hard drives, but when it's done it'll be 4x4TB in RAID6
My current one is running TrueNAS Scale with 8x8TB in RAIDz2
It's got a few things running on it but it's mostly just for storage
It's an old PowerEdge T610 with dual hexa-core Xeons and almost 200GB of RAM. I got it for free from a coworker who was cleaning out his garage and found it. The new one will be running a R5-1600 and 64GB of RAM.
I'm becoming increasingly interested in doing this as well. What all needs to be put in place for it to happen?
My first server was an old PC with a big hard drive I setup as a network share, then installed VLC on my TV and used it to play movies
My last one was an old tower server running TrueNAS Scale that had a few other services running in addition to having a drive I can access via VLC
My new one will basically be the same as my last one just instead of a tower server it's going back to normal desktop hardware for ease of getting parts
It's really easy to setup your first NAS and I'd recommend doing a local thing first long before you try to open something up to the Internet for external access. Personally I haven't opened something up to the internet to access it remotely, but I plan to with my new one after I finish building it.
Yeah, I'm currently researching what sort of security I need to implement to open up to the internet
Likewise, I want to make sure I have all my ducks in a row before I open it up to the Internet
I cancelled 6 months ago. It just ran out yesterday.
Now I have to put $35 of physical items in my cart for free shipping. Oh no! what ever will I do!?
Worst case scenario – order two , return one.
I’ve been meaning to cancel for a while but luckily remembered right before the renewal.
It used to be just 25$ till recently. Also, if you are just getting common household goods, walmart might give you free shipping(not sure on locale)
Yep. It's so easy spending $35 and waiting just a little extra for packages to arrive.
The ad insert into prime video was the last straw.
Ads in toddler shows! I couldn't believe it when I saw the first one. What an unethical business model.
I'm glad that I really only use Prime for their shipping and shopping perks.
Same, bought a NUC and set up a servarr+jellyseerr+jellyfin over the weekend. It was much simpler than anticipated, and the experience is so much better than any streaming service. The NUC will pay for itself within a year once I cancel all these fucking subscriptions.
Easiest cancel I ever did.
They fucked up music earlier in the year as well, because apparently listening to tracks in the same order the artist intended is a premium only feature.
Went to Spotify for that. Went to Jellyfin for video.
I used to just pirate stuff I couldn't find through other means but I finally snapped the other night when a series was split up over different services. I'm not paying for more services just to watch one show. Piracy ahoy.
Another classic example where the upper echelons of a company look at spreadsheets more than they use their own damn product. SMH
Have you ever read about subscription services and how people don't cancel them for years even after they stop using them?
You ever hear about AOL having millions of subs for years and years long after the service was relevant, as recently as 2021?
Reminds me that I still have a 23c/month bill for something that I haven't used in years. I should cancel that at some point.
they're running their own business model into the ground
Unfortunately, not enough people know what a computer is and corporations are banking on it.
A computer is what we used before we had phones, right?
It already was when Disney+ was released but nobody listened until now somehow
Source on Pirate mommy Katherine?
Netflix isn't just inserting ads. They are also locking content behind higher subscription plans.
Let the black flag fly.
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It was Agatha all along!