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it is if you don't use it, but many people shop mostly or even exclusively on the platform. order more than once a week and it's a fair value. i know some who make 10-20 orders a week and every day is a 'prime delivery day'.

i just made an order for something small and lightweight, that is shipped by amazon, is in stock, but won't be delivered until next thursday---with prime.

to further force people into signing-in to an online microsoft account just to use their damn pc, probably.

i don't buy the numbers, i think there's more people struggling to put food on the table than what this says.

jokes on them, we shop there infrequently enough (2-3 times a year) that they give us prime for free every time we do. there was one short stretch (few months) about 10 years ago where we paid for it because we had a need for the shipping perk, but we haven't 'paid' for prime in a good 5-6 years and that was for a discounted 'trial'.

recently started another free month, so excuse me, while i go cue-up another movie. gotta use and abuse this one if the next one is gonna be polluted with ads--won't help that 'trial' experience and the conversion chance any next time, either.

if it was still just netflix, and everybody didn't have their own streaming service, that would be different.

but when you add up netflix, prime, disney, paramount, peacock, max, and whatever else, the wallet definitely says it's just like cable.

do one at a time and rotate, maybe have one you 'always' have. you can't watch 10 different services at once anyway.

correct. but all who do, are.

the cop cars here have that fucking thing on them, so good luck with that. hope you're pasty white.

republicans: "hold my beer"

narrator: 'google knows about those things, too.'

they're trying to double as a streaming platform (like roku channel, tubi, etc) for mass-market media. that creates a conflict between the big studios licensing that content to them and the platform's common historical use case. they may have to choose 'one or the other', and i would not be surprised if further 'actions' are taken by plex to curb (or outright remove support for) media 'sharing'.

i fear mozilla may be in the line here, finally giving-in to google on manifest 3's limitations, web 'drm', and targeted ads program, in exchange for keeping the lights on (google is their single biggest source of funding via payment for being default search).