Emails reveal Amazon has pushed back on FTC demands for data on all Prime users.
  • Xanis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    6 months ago

    I’ll say this: Grabbed a free month of Prime through Google Play. Went to cancel it before it charged me again and I had so much trouble figuring out how I decided that I couldn’t be the only one and ended up Googling it.

    You couldn’t quit in the Google Play Store. It wasn’t even listed.

    It wasn’t any form of subscription or listed as a membership on Amazon.

    You couldn’t end it by following QR codes or links supplied to you on Amazon itself.

    It wasn’t in your Amazon profile or Google profile.

    The ONLY WAY to cancel it was by scanning the QR code, following the link, clicking on a “Contact Support” button, clicking on another button under “Help Topics” that said, “How to end your Prime Membership”, and finally you were taken to a page where you could actually end it. Obfuscated like a motherfucker.

    • AtariDump@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      6 months ago

      But the plans were on display…”
      “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
      “That’s the display department.”
      “With a flashlight.”
      “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
      “So had the stairs.”
      “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
      “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.

  • Veraxus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    6 months ago

    How about the whole “sure you already paid for a year of Prime Video, but now you need to pay us again or we’re going to ruin the thing you already paid for” situation?

  • Magzmak@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    6 months ago

    I still haven’t consented to the 2.99 price hike to no have commercials. I will wait until the lawsuit runs its course because fuck em.

        • SkyezOpen@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          I just plug a really long hdmi into my computer if I want to watch things. Smart tech is pretty awful and will only get worse.

          You can jailbreak a firestick but it seems like that’s for third party streaming which is spicy unless you have a VPN. No idea about adblock for official apps.