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We dropped Prime over a year ago. When it stopped giving you a ad-free Twitch experience that was a serious downgrade for us.

Many other retailers have free shipping these days. Rarely do I need something next day. Rarely is Amazon able to deliver things next day anyways. You can very easily get free shipping from Amazon with a minimum purchase order. Their infrastructure isn't able to handle slowing down your package just because you aren't Prime, so you basically get just as fast service.

If anything, we've found way more value out of Instacart for quality of life these days.

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I guess it depends on where you live. In Seattle I usually get deliveries the same day when I order in the morning, and there are enough grocery stores in walking distance that I wouldn't pay for delivery.

I live an hour from any urban area in Southern Ontario and get next day deliveries all the time. I'd say 90% are next day.

Also in Canada the "most sites have free shipping" thing is not true at all for us sadly. Nor do they have as consistently fast shipping as Amazon. Amazon (via Canpar) does two delivery cycles each day in my town either in the early day or early evening depending on when you order. Canada Post has gotten way better thanks to Amazon competiton but next day is still a shot in the dark even when ordering regionally, and fedex/UPS conspire to pretend they attempted delivery even when I work from home.

So yeah as a Canadian I can't see myself ending prime any time soon. And I thank Amazon's competition for making the other shipping options better even if they are only 70% of the way there. Maybe one day competiton will plateau and end their ecommerce shipping dominance.

That was my experience in the Boston area 3-4 years ago. Last year it had gotten to 3-4 days between ordering and the item arriving normally with probably every third or fourth delivery delayed by at least two days and occasionally a week.

Cancelling my 10 year old prime subscription was the easiest decision I've made in the last year.

Twitch is unwatchable now because of all the ads.

There are tampermonkey script(s) and ublock filter scripts that swap out the advert video with the live broadcast video (but in low res) - i have lived with that for now, esp. since i watch esports on twitch, and it sucks that i would have missed key moments of a game when an ad plays during it!

There's several ones listed here : https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions

I use the scripts (https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions#scripts) instead of the proxy solution, as i dont want to rely on a third party server to be working.

There is the option of Twitch Turbo, which removes all (Twitch) ads for $12 per month.

https://www.twitch.tv/turbo

Here we go again...

Twitch Turbo has been around for a decade, and the price hasn't increased that much over time (9 USD/month to 12 USD/month)

'tis the season. Get ready for $15/month. Those exec bonuses won't make themselves.

Past performance is not indicative of future results.

Which was great when Amazon Prime gave you Turbo for free. When you can compare the pricing of Turbo to YouTube Premium, which is the better value?

In the end what has actually happened is we watch less.

>When you can compare the pricing of Turbo to YouTube Premium, which is the better value?

depends on what you watch. Some people are very into streams and barely watch youtube, so it's not even a comparison. I'm the opposite and can catch maybe one stream live a month.

>In the end what has actually happened is we watch less.

increase in price always leads to a lower demand. I'm sure they took that into account before the price hike.

Does amazon still give you one prime sub per month? IIRC, subscribing to someone on twitch removes adds for their channel, so it'd work out cheaper if you're subbed to 3 or fewer streamers.

Then again, I just use an adblocker for any twitch streams I watch live.

I use Brave on desktop and don't see the twitch midroll ads (videos). This doesn't help with my smart tv, but it does with my phone. The display ads that dynamically intrude on the stream is something I want to suppress, next.

The native android TV app is very bad. I just launch the app on my phone/tablet and cast it to my TV/Chromecast. I did not see any ads when I was casting. I am not entirely sure how things are on the apple side of the ecosystem.

We did find value in instacart but realized it was adding almost 50% to the price of our grocery shopping. This woukd have been acceptable if they had proper catalog but they never update it and on purpose hide items to sell others at times, and that violation of trust was too much

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