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[IntentionalPun]

for me it's not about it being on as a screen saver, more the fact you've purchased the product and you shouldn't have to pay an extra fee to opt out. Or maybe it's a discount to opt in? Ads are so much more pervasive these days - in games, on the OS, on paid services...

IMO it's a discount thing. The Kindle is really well priced, and when they introduced ads, they did discount it.

You can view it either way, but if they got rid of the ad supported version you'd still be paying the other price.

 

[Regginator]

Imagine paying for something in 2023 and still getting ads, fucking lol. If this isn't late-stage capitalism then I really don't wanna be alive when it's actually here.

 

[IntentionalPun]

Imagine paying for something in 2023 and still getting ads, fucking lol. If this isn't late-stage capitalism then I really don't wanna be alive when it's actually here.

Cable TV?

Been normal for decades lol

Every streaming service but Netflix is losing gobs of money, including Amazon Prime Video by a HUUUGE amount. They are spending more money than anyone else and having a fraction of the viewership.

 

[Regginator]

Cable TV?

Been normal for decades lol

Cable? Get out of here, old man. I'm talking about 2023.

 

[IntentionalPun]

Cable? Get out of here, old man. I'm talking about 2023.

See my edit; eventually these services need to figure out how to make money.

Unless you just want a massive Netflix monopoly, things need to change.

 

[SiteSeer]

Welcome back to cable

piracy is back on the menu boys!

 

[daffyduck]

In UK it's £8.99 and for that we get delivery and the tv stuff.

Am I reading it right that it's 2 tiers in the US?

1 tier. For now...

Cable? Get out of here, old man. I'm talking about 2023.

Cable as in traditional cable, and for that matter, TV over Fiber, and even mini dish. Yes, even legacy cable hasn't been completely replaced yet. It's 2023, not 2053.

 

[Trogdor1123]

Prime is pretty cheap here in Canada compared to the states but we get way fewer services.

 

[Putonahappyface]

Does anyone actually have Prime for there video content? I only have Prime for the free delivery.

Yeah I'm another one that gets Prime for the next day delivery. It's incredibly handy and for the occasional bargain.

 

[The Pleasure]

Yes. It's called a physical collection.

 

[Makoto-Yuki]

I'm exploring the possibility of never fucking using Amazon Prime Video ever again.

Apple TV+ is honestly the only streaming platform I enjoy these days.

 

[DragoonKain]

When this first started I'd get like a 25 second ad on some videos, not even all of them. It would be at the beginning, then ad free the rest of the way.

Now, it's basically like watching network TV. You get full length commercial breaks every 8-12 minutes. Insufferable. I refuse to cave and pay more money. I'm just going to start pirating their content now even though I have Prime.

Sorry, Amazon, this is your fault for being greedy.

 

[Spyxos]

When this first started I'd get like a 25 second ad on some videos, not even all of them. It would be at the beginning, then ad free the rest of the way.

Now, it's basically like watching network TV. You get full length commercial breaks every 8-12 minutes. Insufferable. I refuse to cave and pay more money. I'm just going to start pirating their content now even though I have Prime.

Sorry, Amazon, this is your fault for being greedy.

I canceled my Prime a year ago. Looks like it was the right decision.

 

[Bojji]

When this first started I'd get like a 25 second ad on some videos, not even all of them. It would be at the beginning, then ad free the rest of the way.

Now, it's basically like watching network TV. You get full length commercial breaks every 8-12 minutes. Insufferable. I refuse to cave and pay more money. I'm just going to start pirating their content now even though I have Prime.

Sorry, Amazon, this is your fault for being greedy.

US?

I resubbed for a year one week ago and see no difference right now (Europe), same short skippable ads od Amazon shows before playing what I selected.

 

[DragoonKain]

US?

I resubbed for a year one week ago and see no difference right now (Europe), same short skippable ads od Amazon shows before playing what I selected.

Yeah, US. Maybe it's only on the series I've been watching, but it has been the case for me lately.

 

[Trogdor1123]

When this first started I'd get like a 25 second ad on some videos, not even all of them. It would be at the beginning, then ad free the rest of the way.

Now, it's basically like watching network TV. You get full length commercial breaks every 8-12 minutes. Insufferable. I refuse to cave and pay more money. I'm just going to start pirating their content now even though I have Prime.

Sorry, Amazon, this is your fault for being greedy.

Wife and I were watching fallout yesterday and we commented about how many ads there are now too. There are lots and long ones.

 

[JimmyRustler]

When this first started I'd get like a 25 second ad on some videos, not even all of them. It would be at the beginning, then ad free the rest of the way.

Now, it's basically like watching network TV. You get full length commercial breaks every 8-12 minutes. Insufferable. I refuse to cave and pay more money. I'm just going to start pirating their content now even though I have Prime.

Sorry, Amazon, this is your fault for being greedy.

That's wild… For me here in Austria it's still only like 40 seconds before or in between the movie.

Well, it's doomed to go the YT way one day. Not sure how to fault them though. It's just capitalism. Amazon is legally obliged to raise profits - and as the user base seems to be stagnating, they either have to raise the price or work with commercials. You gotta be fair… they didn't raise the sub price for a damn long time. I've had it for years and it's always been and still is 9 EUR.

 

[Mr Reasonable]

Sorry, Amazon, this is your fault for being greedy.

I wonder if it is that they have been running the video service at a loss in order to build up a userbase and are now having to make real money.

I cancelled my Amazon prime but I did wonder how they attributed the fee. There are deliveries and TV and music all to be paid for from the fee. Some households must use very little of those things relative to others, but others get a great deal. How do they work out how much to pay to record labels and movie/TV distributors, etc. etc.

 

[Bojji]

Yeah, US. Maybe it's only on the series I've been watching, but it has been the case for me lately.

I guess we will get the same shit few months after US...

 

[DragoonKain]

I wonder if it is that they have been running the video service at a loss in order to build up a userbase and are now having to make real money.

I cancelled my Amazon prime but I did wonder how they attributed the fee. There are deliveries and TV and music all to be paid for from the fee. Some households must use very little of those things relative to others, but others get a great deal. How do they work out how much to pay to record labels and movie/TV distributors, etc. etc.

Right now to remove ads is $2.99 per month(essentially $36 extra per year for a service that is already $150 per year). By this time next year, that $2.99 per month to remove ads will be $4.99 per month. And then a year or two after that it'll be $7.99 and so on.

In 5 years to have a full Amazon Prime experience that we had a couple years ago, it'll probably be $230+ per year.

Seen this story a hundred times before with other companies.

 

[falconhoof]

I remember with DVDs I started downloading rips of discs I owned because they started putting more and more unskippable shit before the movie.

Piracy is always the answer to enshitification.

Their design is to slowly turn the screws to try and avoid some hard whiplash moment. At best for them they keep on going until you're watching ads as bad as network TV and accept it, or you complain a bit and they roll back to the good old days of showing a few less ads to make you feel like "they're listening".

When you hear comments like "They used to only show ads at the start" you know their tactics are somewhat winning.

We don't need $400M dollar 6 episode seasons of a show. They're not better than shows that cost a tenth of the price. The screws they're turning with upping the price and rolling more ads is just affording them to blow it back out of their Rings of Power. They can do more with less if they tried.

 

[LimanimaPT]

Amazon Prime is really bad in Portugal. We get SPANISH adds. Why the fk do I get feeded stuff that doesn't even sell in Portugal?!
And most movies don't have portuguese subtitles only spanish.
Do they know that Portugal is an independent country with it's own language? And I pay for this service..

 

[Pejo]

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[Facism]

Ads are insufferable on Prime UK. Put on Grand Tour, got hit with a 2 and half minute ad at the start. Looked at the progress bar, 3 more fucking ad breaks in this single episode. Turned it off and slapped on some DS9 on Netflix.

Actively removing value from your service so you can sell a fix in £3 a month ad free addon? Fuck off, you tax-dodging cunthammers.

 

[daffyduck]

They seem to single out some shows to be bombarded with Ads.

Trying to watch Invincible right now is worse than if it were on network TV.