Awesome, now piracy can also double!
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2025
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Pray I do not double them again. And again, and again....
Literally, ads ifinitum
Farewell Amazon videos. Oh, and I'm trying to do all my shopping NOT on Amazon. Fuck bezos, trump, and all the other orange butthole sucking fat cats.
I have been cancelling subscriptions to Trump supporting companies since January. I was on a yearly sub with Amazon.
Thanks for the reminder to cancel..........
........ cancelled.
It will never end.
Everyone subscribing to this is a useful idiot and I do not respect them.
Get the pirate hats ready, we are sailing the high seas ☠️🏴☠️
Just renewed proton vpn yesterday (didn't get any mails or anything, it just popped a box out of nowhere), had that sweet 3 year deal running out 🥲. Its some cash (a hundred something for 2 years) but I'm trying to do my honest work.jpg.
I use Proton VPN, and their mail and password service. It has all worked flawlessly so far
You guys get ads on Prime?
It's part of the humiliation ritual.
You guys got Prime?
Yeah, and I don't get why. I don't pay for it. Got it once and cancelled it but somehow the account is still active.
Nope.
Yaar, I've not had any streaming services for a good few years now. Shiver me timbers, matey!!
No, a good adblocker takes care of that.
I think we just don't get them in the EU. With or without adblocker
I think it simply promotes other prime video content instead of product advertisement.
Good thing I cancelled prime along with all my subscriptions and accounts with US companies just after Trump was elected.
You shouldn't have given them your money in the first place.
You are right, better late than never.
I cancelled the moment they put ads in the plan I had been paying for. Don’t miss it for a second. Not even prime shipping.
It's like they want me to sail the high seas
I worry the average person has no idea how to torrent.
To be fair, when I first got access to the internet as a kid, I also didn't know.
It look me like a couple years of being tired of shitty ad-ridden streaming sites and digging through the internet before I even heard of The Pirate Bay and Torrents (Thanks to r/piracy btw 😎)
The average person doesn't even have a proper computer anymore. I guess you're can still torrent on your phone but I've not tried it.
I've torrented on my Android phone and watched Christopher Nolan movies on it.
(Heresy I know, but it's called poverty)
I just use Stremio on everything now with the usual plugins and a debrid service sub. I could do it old school on mobile, but navigating Android is baseline a tedious slog even while knowing what I'm doing.
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And I double my piracy. Checkmate, corporations.
Also be aware that Amazon donated one million dollars to the Trump inauguration and is a sponsor of the Jun 14 military parade.
Piracy, pirate and remember if you want to be free then a pirates life is the life for me.
Glad I cancelled Prime some time ago. Haven't missed it and I usually get free shipping anyway by buying elsewhere. I'll even pay more to avoid Amazon.
Are you me? (I don't mean name wise)
Just steal it. If its an amazon original, they will cancel it after 2 seasons anyway.
Right? I can't believe people actually pay for these services. Oh well, I guess someone has to. 🏴☠️
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Amazon funded Trump's inauguration, they've doubled their advertisements, they mistreat their warehouse workers, for people who don't use Amazon often you're paying more money than you'd spend on just paying for shipping on the occasion you need fast shipping or if you don't need fast shipping you can still get free shipping if your order is more than the threshold which I think depends on your account might be $25 or $35.
Given all these things I really hope no one is subscribing to Amazon prime. I'd highly recommend anyone who uses Amazon prime to cancel it. Being shown advertisements on something you're paying for is insane. This should be the final straw for any Amazon Prime customer.
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That's why I cancelled my Prime subscription. After that, Amazon randomly re started my Prime subscription, twice; that's why I deleted my Amazon account.
"I can't see ads!"
I noticed paramount+ was included in a subscription service my wife has. I setup an account, loaded the app found a show to watch. Made it threw 3 episodes decided to pirate the show instead because the commercials were to annoying.
+100% ads --> -100% amazon purchases
I'm old, so many may not relate. I remember when the big selling point of this newfangled "cable TV" thing was zero ads. Can you imagine that?
Yeah, I have Prime for the savings on shipping. Got the Kodi addon for watching Prime, never used it except to watch The Expanse a few years ago. Would have been fucking enraged if I had seen ads cut into that. Fuck am I paying for?!
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I'll be quitting after my wife finishes her series. I had noticed it is getting worse. Plus, unless I screwed up somehow, that $2.99 no-adverts charge appeared without any action on our part. We cancelled and went back to the cheaper version. It really bugs me that a company making money hand over fist finds it necessary to fuck their customers over unless they pay even more.
It should be illegal to do what these companies are doing.
Amazon seems to randomly start subscriptions. And then you think you’re crazy and did something stupid but I’m pretty sure they’re just evil. I have been subscribed to Audible multiple times and I have never listened to an audiobook in my life.
Fuck them, I'm not paying for ads, let alone paying more for more ads. I already got rid of my prime months ago, I need to stop supporting amazon anyway.
Pirated content of course has no advertising in it, so it makes sense to pay good money for a service that has adverts in it or how else am I going to learn about all those fabulous products I just have to buy?
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doubles Prime Video piracy per hour
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