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Am not going to pay 4 months when I can pay 1.

Re: Yearly plans to curb stream jumping? HA HA HA. No.

They have two tiers of video offerings that I think are anti-competitive:

1) They give away access to some stuff ad-free as part of the prime bundle.

2) The more premium part of their catalog has ads (Freevee)

(They also have a very expensive, non-differentiated service where you can buy/rent stuff, but their prices and selection are similar to other services.)

Prime Video is a standard monopolistic dumping scheme: They're providing it for free to depress streaming plan prices and starve competitors.

With Freevee, they use account data they gathered from their online shopping monopoly to provide better streaming ad targeting than anyone else can.

I got a Prime membership years ago to get low-cost fast shipping and at that time, Netflix was far superior to Prime Video. As it's gone up in price, I can justify that because I also get streaming movies & music (although I keep forgetting about the music). All in all it's a good enough deal to the point where I honestly don't even know how much I'm paying for it anymore.

enough people do this, and then the streaming services will try to fix that by insisting on long-term contracts for short-term life for the content on the service. At which point, it is not worth subscribing.

Occasionally, I play the Netflix game. I lose so often that I'm surprised when I win and find something I want to watch.

Infinite LaGrange and BG3 are much more entertaining games...

Same here. I'm waiting for the inevitable email saying that only 5Gbps plans will get free Max

There's a ton of television shows and movies on my list of things I want to watch and the list is growing over time. I can't imagine I'll ever reach the end.

I don't particularly feel like I'm locked in to legacy media. I do feel a little like I'm being held hostage by sports streaming services though (especially MLB)

I mean he is competing with not just other streaming services but everything i could spend my attention on. My attention is the scares resource here, not content.