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by twh270 738 days ago
We dropped Amazon Prime earlier this year, in part because of the introduction of ads, and we haven't missed it. We're now talking about moving to the model where you stream one or two providers at a time, then switch. Between the ads and garbage content, it's just increasingly hard to justify subscribing to a half dozen services just to have options.

I should add we're not doing this because we need to cut costs.

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I quit Prime when 2 day shipping turned to 5 day shipping. I was never that big of a fan of their subscription streaming programming although from time to time I would "rent" a movie I wanted to see.

The one streaming subscription I have now is Peacock because it is (1) well priced and (2) has some pretty remarkable sports content such as Premier League soccer (stupid of MLS to stay behind the Apple TV paywall because the one thing that will convince people American soccer is worth watching is... watching it) and events like the Rugby World Cup. That's despite my being entirely uninterested in network TV fare such as "Like Columbo but he never talks to anybody because he only uses forensic methods" and "Like Star Trek but set in a hospital" etc.