Pop-up Amazon streaming ads despite charging people monthly fees for their ad-free plan.

Amazon: "Oh, we didn't mean those ads. That's clearly stated on page 112 of the user agreement under "Enshittification."

In the advertising world, it's not advertising, it's a promotion
For example, if you go to the grocery store, there is a difference between hearing/seeing something that says, "bananas are on special today" vs "go buy [specific brand] of cereal today!"
still sucks though
- Gotta call BS. I didn't go anywhere and happen across a promotion, Amazon pushed this ad into my home, despite charging me a monthly fee not to do so. Why not go all the way and call it a public service announcement?
  This is just like cold calls from local contracting companies claiming that they aren't violating the "Do Not Call" list because they aren't actually selling new windows, just informing the public of their new promotion.
- Promotions are a form of advertising. Just because they have the excuse that it's advertising on their own service doesn't make it not advertising.
- Nah, they're promoting their retail business on their streaming platform. Not the same thing. This is a scummy move from Amazon

So you upgraded to an ad-free plan and they still show this?

Yup.
- Wow. Makes me want to cancel them twice.
Paramount does this shit too.
If you have Ad Free Paramount+ you get 30s intro ads where you have to hit the >> or OK button to make it go away.
- The “previews” are standard fare across most streaming apps and it drives me absolutely crazy.
- at least you can skip them

then you start your ad-free viewing by selecting a show... and they show you an ad for a different show. this aggravated me more than the ads on the page shown there.

This is the same as all the games that advertise themselves as having no ads but they do have ads for in app purchases.
For some reason they don’t consider those as being ads.

While I don't personally engage in piracy, I can definitely see why people go that route. Streaming services suck so much. All these companies had to do was make it more convenient to not pirate.
- there's a reason why video game and music piracy has had a dramatic reduction, and why tv/movies still have a significant number of pirates.

Hm seems to be missing the "Fuck off" button

That can be found right here:
https://www.amazon.com/mm/pipeline/cancellation

I left when they started charging more so they wouldn't ruin your service with ads... which they did anyway

I’m sorry but if i pay for a service that’s ad free and they put ads in the media i’m watching then i will instantly cancel that service. Anyone who doesn’t is just enabling that behavior.

I've graduated to not considering any service they has an advertising tier. It's like being in the court watching Gríma Wormtongue whisper into the ear of King Théoden of Rohan. No amount of concessions is good enough, they'll always ask for more.
Happened to me with HBO Nordic. I mean HBO Max. No. Max. It was an episode of Rick and Morty, and the ad was on the video itself. It was like it was downloaded from somewhere. Cancelled in an instant.

Steal from them.

Already am.

Sounds like you're ready to stop buying anything from Amazon. One of us. One of us..

fmhy.net

Bezos has enough money

I'm on their ad-free plan myself. but the free one, that you don't pay anything for.

same! I like that buffering is never an issue. and I don't even have to deal with their shitty UI!
- and they don't even mind you sharing your password with family either

You better sail the high seas and watch your shows Amazon-free.

the only thing that I think that you can do about it is cancel and not use the service.

There's definitely something in their terms of service that says the ad-free doesn't apply to their products.

ReVanced, SmartTubeNext, a Fen Lite build of Kodi, and Real-Debrid. You'll never sit through any adverts ever again.

have you unsubscribed?

Ad-blockers are a must

The only time I see ads are when I'm streaming something live. And that's because they have actual commercial breaks

Prime streaming is shit. The only reason I have prime video is because I use the free delivery. I never watch it

Cough cough fmhy cough cough

That would be an instant unsubscribe from me. Otherwise you're just giving them permission to keep doing this.