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Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025
(arstechnica.com)
Good thing adblock didn't work on the browser version of Prime video last time I used it after getting tired of the ads on the app version!
It's possible they're embedding ads now though
"Tolerate," my ass. I'm paying the three dollars a month for ad-free Prime, because I'm not watching ads during an election year. The damn election is stressful enough as it is.
Prime Video is just barely worth the price, but now that all the Stephen J. Cannell shows have been moved to Shout Factory TV, I'm reconsidering. Between that and all the shows on Freevee (uh, what part of "ad free viewing" don't you understand?), the only tangible benefit I get from Amazon Prime is free shipping... and that free shipping isn't as fast as it used to be before the pandemic.
Hmmm maybe it's time to solicit that VPN that doesn't collect logs and is shady enough to accept cash payment.....
Just in time for me to have already cancelled my Prime membership last month. I've also not purchased from Amazon at all since then. Plan working as intended?!
When they announced the ads it was just the incentive I needed to quit Prime totally. I don’t miss it. I already was wary of buying from Amazon due to the sketchy sellers and fake products, so I’m glad buying my stuff elsewhere except when I can’t find something somewhere else, which has been rare.
I do have a prime account as do use Amazon, but we haven't watched a second of prime TV since they put ads in the included video subscription.
For some reason this was the straw that broke the camels back for me. I setup a NAS, Plex server and all the arr apps. It's been amazing. Haven't looked back.
I'm using plex but still hosting it on my desktop which is a little inconvenient at times. I really should set up an always available NAS
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Did they ever ramp down?
No, they need to have perpetually increasing profits.
I will ramp down my use of amazon prime
Hmm, unfortunately I can't go negative.
Get an RF jammer and block your neighbors' wifi
Lol.
I guess I could also slash the tires of the Amazon delivery truck when it drops off packages at my neighbor's house. Then again, I'd prefer to not go to jail.
🎶We’re rascals and scoundrels, we’re villains and knaves Drink up me hearties, yo ho We’re devils and black sheep, we’re really bad eggs Drink up me hearties, yo ho Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me🎶
Attention subscribers! We will be making your experience worse going forward! We're not even going to soften our language to make it seem like we're doing you a favor! More ads for everyone!
That's okay, I'll ramp up my piracy of Amazon-exclusive shows in 2025 too.
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[When launched] Prime Video with ads was given a "very light ad load," providing subscribers “gentle entry into advertising that has exceeded customers expectations in terms of what the ad experience would be like." The executive pointed out that Prime Video with ads doesn't show commercials in the middle of content. That could change next year.
Planned enshittification a la boiling frogs.
The executive pointed out that Prime Video with ads doesn't show commercials in the middle of content. That could change next year.
So regular TV is designed around the ads.
Cliff hangers before ads are done not only for the story, but to keep you there through the ad to get the outcome to the cliffhanger.
That partially went away with the no ad streaming.
Now that shitty behavior is going to come back.
Now that shitty behavior is going to come back.
Of course not. Streaming sites are far too lazy for that. They'll just cram the commercial into the middle of the show with no regard for the story. It's the only way they'll be able to put ads in the middle of shows not made to have ads.
Ugh, you're right. Enshittify to the max!
Light my arse, from the start they've interrupted with adverts for their own crap making it barely tolerable. Even on the adfree tier.
Canceled and no intention of ever going back. Measuring your ad load by American standards doesn't work when your competition is netflix and iPlayer.
I'll just pirate their shit. I'll pirate it so hard and I'll do it with both middle fingers in the air. But not literally, I would definitely need both hands to pirate their content.
We still need one person with a membership to download and post it all. Maybe we should start a fund to support their ever increasing membership costs…
So are executives born with an asshole where their mouth belongs or do they surgically put it on when you get the gig?
Humans, being deuterostomes, have an embryological stage where we are just anuses.
Some humans never develop past that.
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Well, guess it's time to get an eye patch and a pet parrot
Do you know any sea shanties to go along with that?
What shall we do with an ad filled service? What shall we do with an ad filled service? What shall we do with an ad filled service? Before we go crazy!
Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Before we go crazy!
Cancel our subscription with greatest haste now! Cancel our subscription with greatest haste now! Cancel our subscription with greatest haste now! Before we go crazy!
Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Before we go crazy!
Search for the show on pirate websites! Search for the show on pirate websites! Search for the show on pirate websites! Before we go crazy!
Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Ahoy the season is starting! Before we go crazy!
Yo ho ho and a terabyte of NAS!
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Deeper into the high seas!
Is it weird that I have prime but I pirate still?
It’s just not a good experience…
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Still waiting on a video free version, like I originally ordered... probably $30/mo next year
That's what you do if you pay a giant corpo; you feed a kraken, so it can grow more arms and get greedier.
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