Guess Amazon doesn’t have enough money already

I pay for it, stopp giving me ads, it's already to much with ads at the beginning sometimes. Will not continue with prime then🤷

They already have ads. What's the change?

They increased the price of Prime already to like $160 a year and now they're adding ads while saying if you don't want ads you can pay another $2.99?

[enshittification intensifies]

I'll still pay for prime for deliveries, but I'll stop watching their mediocre streaming service. Ads are viscerally disgusting.

Papa Jeff needs another rocket.

It used to be really tough to unsubscribe from Prime, but Amazon was getting sued for that so they made it easier to unsubscribe.

This is a win win for them. I don't think anybody has prime for just prime video. It's just an additional perk. The main perk is the free one day and two day shipping. Even if people stop watching prime video, they're mostly not going to cancel their prime because there are other perks they use. If they keep the membership but don't watch prime video, then that is resource savings for Amazon which translates to less operating costs. If they do watch it, that translates to ad revenue. Either way, win win. At this point there is pretty much no reason not to sail the high seas.

Cool. I thought about getting Prime Video this winter to catch up on some exclusives, but that's apparently not happening. I'm not paying for ads, and I don't think I'll find $3/month increase over current prices worthwhile.

I bailed at the last price increase (wasn't watching or ordering much anyway), and this just encourages me to look elsewhere. I guess I'll go back to buying DVDs...

At least there’s a cheap option to remove them. I’ll pay the $3/mo.