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Guess Amazon doesn’t have enough money already
It’s never enough for these greedy asses.
They already have ads. What’s the change?
Only thing I can think of is ads during content instead of before?
Yar har I guess.
I basically never use Prime Video but if i recall correctly there already is ads before after and inbetween shows.
Right now there’s a section in prime video that’s titled free with ads(only if you have prime). After the change, all prime videos will be in that section.
‘free with ads’ is literally free to watch, with ads, no prime membership requirement. a prime membership won’t shed the ads there now… or next year. it’s a different selection of programs or a separate service (like freevee, aka imdb tv).
I wonder if they’ll add ads for the branded channels too or they’ll remain as they are.
the ‘channels’ you pay extra for now? that’ll probably be up to the individual provider of that programming and their future deals with amazon to be on the platform… but the infrastructure for them to add ads is there.
Some of those like Paramount+ already have their own ads
[enshittification intensifies]
They increased the price of Prime already to like $160 a year and now they’re adding ads while saying if you don’t want ads you can pay another $2.99?
I Pre-paid for a year of a service that they are now changing a fundamental element of. We should be able to cancel and get a refund of the remaining cost in situations like this.
Cool. I thought about getting Prime Video this winter to catch up on some exclusives, but that’s apparently not happening. I’m not paying for ads, and I don’t think I’ll find $3/month increase over current prices worthwhile.
I bailed at the last price increase (wasn’t watching or ordering much anyway), and this just encourages me to look elsewhere. I guess I’ll go back to buying DVDs…
I’ll still pay for prime for deliveries, but I’ll stop watching their mediocre streaming service. Ads are viscerally disgusting.
I suspect the deliveries is bullshit anyways. I cancelled my prime, shipping is still free, but they claim it will be 3-5 days. In reality I get them in 1-2 days anyways.
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i just made an order for something small and lightweight, that is shipped by amazon, is in stock, but won’t be delivered until next thursday—with prime.
At least there’s a cheap option to remove them. I’ll pay the $3/mo.
Course you will. That’s what they already anticipated.
This is a win win for them. I don’t think anybody has prime for just prime video. It’s just an additional perk. The main perk is the free one day and two day shipping. Even if people stop watching prime video, they’re mostly not going to cancel their prime because there are other perks they use. If they keep the membership but don’t watch prime video, then that is resource savings for Amazon which translates to less operating costs. If they do watch it, that translates to ad revenue. Either way, win win. At this point there is pretty much no reason not to sail the high seas.
