With the addition of ads for paying users, is there anything subscribers can do to protest? I hate ads with a passion.

Maybe separate all shipping items to cost them more? I’m not seeing many options other than cancellation

  • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    …and everyone that replies to you uses Amazon because they’re the reason their high street retailers died in the first place…

    Yes it costs more. That’s because you’re supporting someone’s family, not their next space rocket, you fucking idiots 😂

    • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de
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      5 months ago

      No, I wouldn’t support someone’s family. I would support a large national or international chain. Where I live, family-owned stores have disappeared way over a decade ago. I’ll gladly spend a bit more to support a small store but if I have the choice between three different soulless and faceless corporations, I’ll put my own financial interests first. There’s exactly two things that I can still buy from independent stores: vinyl records and board games. In the game store I’m a regular to the point where the owners greet me by name and offer me a drink as soon as I walk through the door.

        • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de
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          5 months ago

          I think you misunderstood. I didn’t mean that I wouldn’t want to support family-owned businesses.

          I would LOVE to support small businesses. But there are almost none left where I live and the few that are still there are so important to me that I‘m basically friends with the owners.

          The only real choice I have left for most things is between Amazon, the German Amazon equivalent Otto and a few big chains like Müller, Kaufland and MediaMarkt-Saturn. Neither of them are small businesses by any definition. Between those and only those I pick the cheapest because in those cases my wallet matters more than which rich asshole I dislike the most.

          And no, that’s not because I ruined small businesses. For the longest time I’ve made an effort to buy as much from small businesses as I could. But that option is gone.