Still, it's irritating that these little fees keep piling up.

The number will escalate.

There was almost nothing on prime I wanted to watch to begin with as they apparently spent their entire production and acquisition budget on the massively awful LOR prequel. Hulu has much better content, soi I will put up with ads there, but it is also my last choice for watching. I hate ads. I hate ads so much that I will start a basketball game on Youtube TV and then go watch something else, and then come back and watch the game while fast-forwarding through the bullshit. I assume Prime, like Hulu, does not allow you to skip through the ads.

I didn’t jump on that subscription because fuck them: I already pay to shop with them. I also watch very little on Prime but there are a few things I want to watch. I was wondering if it was worth the extra money to go ad-free. AppleTV and Hulu are vastly superior services IMO.

Also, I haven’t watched broadcast/cable/satellite TV in decades, so I have ZERO tolerance for ANY commercials.

offer a special deal where you get a year for 99 cents a month.

Last year I forgot. When the price went back up, I told them I was cancelling. They said, "Would you stay for $2.99 a month?" Which I did.

Not sure that was better than paying yearly or negotiating like you do. I tend to subscribe and stay with streaming services, so I never think of playing the old cable TV trick of threatening to cancel to get a better deal. Sigh.

them. It keeps the costs way down.

But Hulu is so cheap now I keep it all the time.

What a ripoff. And the way they're doing it is like the frog in the boiling water. Right now the ads aren't "too intrusive." I guarantee they'll get progressively more intrusive and more frequent.

People know you can still get free shipping from Amazon without paying the Prime fee right? You just have to order more than $35 and it takes a day or two longer to get to you. So, four or five days instead of two or three.

And just at the beginning of the movie, not during. Mainly ads/trailers for other shows/films. 1-2 minutes max.

The ads interrupted. Not all shows have ads.

I’ll see how my tolerance is for this. I’m predicting very low.

So it's a non issue with me.

I’m watching Dark Winds now on Hoopla, and I get ad-free Netflix for almost nothing through T-Mobile. My local library provides Hoopla and I have a non-resident library card from another state, and they provide Kanopy. I do subscribe to other streaming services, but I’m still not paying what I did for satellite tv when I dropped it back in 2008 or so.

I currently have 260 movies in my Kanopy queue!

JK. Does your library limit the number of titles you can check out each month? I don't know if Kanopy has a limit but Hoopla allows only 10 checkouts of anything per month.