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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Having ads in fucking movies makes a service feel cheap / lower value. But the price is staying the same, so where's that button to cancel?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I ended up googling cancel prime membership, and that led me to a page with a cancel button.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'd say we crossed the Rubicon on this front decades ago, when in-person, at the theater, movies started showing actual ads and not just trailers before the movie you just paid for (and it was at the same price, of course).

I remember the first time I experienced this in a theater. My GF was like "....the hell?" and people were fucking booing the ads. But it didn't matter enough - the ads are still here.

And yeah, it still annoys me.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's the great part, you can't cancel.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You can cancel. Source: cancelled recently.