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At least we can switch every month with relative ease, unlike when you had to deal with real cable packages.

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I’d bet that it was easy to switch cable packages when those were a new concept.

I doubt that, monthly subscriptions would have been a major hassle back in the day. Requiring a lot of administration.

Definitely not. Switching required a specialist to come out and change hardware.

Have you tried to unsubscribe Amazon Prime?

I unsubscribed with relative ease. The difficulty is finding the one - ever chanhing - link during checkout that doesn't resubscribe you. Resubscribe links are plastered all over the place, some of them deceptive.

1. Google "Amazon Prime Unsubscribe".

2. First result opens the Amazon App on my phone with a big button that says "End Membership".

Why do you think this is hard?

Because if you tried doing it, you'd discover it makes you go through four confirmation screens, and on each one the correct button is in a different spot and a different color, and if you screw up on any one of them you remain subscribed.

Still a whole lot easier than ending your comcast subscription, where you have to talk to someone on the phone, who will spend a consuderable amount of effort trying to get you to upgrade instead of cancel.

your workflow for finding links in amazon's user settings is to use google?

Yes, my workflow to find settings in tons of apps is to use Google. I could hunt for the right checkbox, or just as easily ask the question and get a directed answer immediately.

I don't see anything wrong with this either. I mean, tons of times when I need to do something specific in my car, for example, I just google it and get a detailed YouTube video explaining it. Better than hunting in a manual.

They asked me two or three times to confirm, but it wasn't difficult.

I have had Amazons video streaming service and unsubscribing was no problem, this is not their Prime service though. I don't think I had to jump through any hoops either because that would have left a negative impression on me and then I would never use it again, now I will just resubscribe when I find something I want to watch.

What cable does is force you to buy basic cable, plus a bunch of regulatory recovery and other fees, to get cable's real equivalent to streaming services which were the pay movie channels.

I'd rather pay $80/mo. for Internet, then jump in an out of STARZ and other services for $10/mo. instead of paying $80/mo. for Internet, $100/mo. for TV+basic cable (which I don't watch and TV is free OTA), and then the movie channels on top of it.

Plus the streaming services work on my phone which is pretty neat when I'm stuck somewhere.

> Plus the streaming services work on my phone which is pretty neat when I'm stuck somewhere.

FYI, that’s true of most cable networks now as well. They’ve all developed apps that are hybrids of (legitimized) IPTV streaming of their live broadcast of the channels available in your package, plus VOD catalogues of seemingly-random seasons of shows (i.e. the ones they happen to currently have licensed for syndication at any given time.)

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