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They've already killed Prime Video in the last year.

I cancelled my Amazon Prime subscription yesterday because:

- 1-day delivery is not a thing anymore

- Prime Video used to be my favorite streaming service, now it sucks. Every time I want to watch something, I have to pay an additional subscription, and it's way too hard to find what's actually included

- it's too expensive for the value it provides (70€). Actually I'm not sure what value it provides anymore

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The thing keeping me on Prime has been their unlimited photo backup service. The desktop app either doesn't work anymore or I have too much content for it to handle. It spins and spins but nothing happens. I can manually backup via the web client but it's a huge pain and there's no automatic sync of new content. I never really know if I'm 100% backed up either.

I was excited to see Apple announce new iCloud tiers above their old 2TB limit, but the prices go up linearly with storage and as an amateur photography enthusiast I'm not sure even the 6TB $30/mo plan would cover me. The only other choice is an eye-watering $60/mo plan for 12TB.

only buy it when you need it and when its cheaper than regular shipping, which is rare if you hvae over $25 of stuff.

I rarely buy stuff, there are only like 1 or 2 times a year when I need something fast that I need Prime. I try to get from Walmart of other sites if possible.

1 day delivery is still going for most products in the UK

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