Amazon To Start Running Ads In Prime Video Series and Movies, Will Launch Ad-Free Tier For Extra Fee

Looks like it's time to cancel prime

With Netflix already having ads we are now 75% of the way to "cutting the cord" going back to reinventing cable again.

The internet has gotten 3x shittier in the last 12 months.

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The pendulum is swinging back towards the monopoly model that destroyed cable. Time to dust off the old Jolly Roger and teach streaming an old lesson of what happens when you price gouge people.

I'm baffled by the unrealistic demand for constant infinite growth from corporate shareholders and management. Those days are numbered.

The corporate enshittification of once decent products and services continues unabated. Amazons decision to charge for UPS store returns even if the products they delivered were defective was almost enough for me to cancel Prime, but this seals the deal. When Amazon Prime commercials begin my Prime membership and most of my Amazon purchases end.

Finally! I’ve been waiting for a good enough reason to cancel Prime

Was already going to cancel when my renewal was up, now i'll cancel even harder.

Eh, I only use prime video because it doesn't cost extra, I don't really need it. Back to piracy it will be, I guess.

This is bad for everyone. I'm still a Prime Member for shopping etc., but thats really got to be reconsidered now too.

Seems like a lot of companies are testing how much they can get away with lately.

I am not paying to watch commercials. Fuck that.

More I see stuff like this the more I believe that these services really aren't making any money and its all smokescreen.

Though this could also just be investors trying to drive up profits instead.

So basically we're pretty much back to paying for a TV package.

Don't worry, it will be presented like this:

"To continue offering you high quality original programming like X and Y, we have to raise our price for Amazon Prime. But don't worry, we're now adding a lower cost ad-based alternative called Amazon Subprime."

So, as usual, most people will be fine with it and put the plastic bag back over their head.

Streaming has essentially become TV packages again. The golden age of streaming is dead, long live Davy Jones!

how are you just allowed to drastically lower the quality of a subscription like this. yeah i'm selling my new streaming service, it has 7 channels, $1 a month. no actually sorry it's $7, 3 channels, and 2 of those channels just run ads on a loop. thanks for keeping autorenew on.

And... we are back to cable again.

I pay for Prime for the next day postage, prime video is just an extra i occasionally use. I'll just pirate their stuff in future and ignore their clunky TV app

These streaming companies are giving people more of a reason to use Jellyfin every day

We should have canceled when Prime got rid of UPS pick up for free. Only reason I used it. Now there is zero benefit to Prime with this new stupid ad tier. You don't even get free grocery delivery.

Having ads in fucking movies makes a service feel cheap / lower value. But the price is staying the same, so where's that button to cancel?

Only ever had the 30 day trial. Pirate people. Pirate. Yaps.cc is a new one to try.

What is ironic about this is that Bezos could probably make all of their video streaming free and have no ads and still be making gobs of money. Their AWS ecosystem is practically a license to print money. Oh and that little store he runs on the side, too...

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum, matey.

Yup, I will be cancelling too. Greedy bastards.

So with the media industry strikes the content is already going to be crap next year. Why not also include ads with it? WTF Amazon.

Well, it seems Amazon doesn't want my money. Don't worry, you won't see it anymore.

I already pay for it

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That s my cue for cancelling i guess

Maybe it's time to cancel Amazon prime. I don't feel like they even met their commitments any longer for delivery... So what's it all for?

and that will be when i unsubscribe.

need to finish off my backlog of shows there, or sail the seas!

I've been paying Amazon for more than 25 years just for the free deliveries. I don't watch anything on Prime, it's so hard to navigate between the free and rent videos. Been torrenting since the 90s, yeah I'm old, so my advice stands -get a good VPN, and sail the seven seas-

Piracy it is then. Lol.

That will be the end of my prime subscription. I should probably just get rid of it now, the streams are better quality on the high seas anyways.

i stopped using amazøn years ago. shop local & stop killing the economy. it's just gonna get worse the more money you give them

Laughs in boycotting Amazon since 2011.

When do you guys think they (companies/rich people/shareholders(?)) will realize that growth for the sake of growth is not viable and there will be a point of stagnation? Like... What are they gonna do, keep raising prices until nobody can b uy anything anymore?

There's been a lot of discussion recently about how companies have been making shitty decisions, which prompt people to move to the open-source alternatives, like what happened with Reddit, Twitter and Unity etc. However, is there a viable alternative for film-related media, beyond simply piracy?

While Lemmy, Godot etc obviously have many costs, primarily servers and development, they don't have to deal with licensing in the same way to get content. Is there an existing alternative, or do you see a way for there to ever be an existing alternative without some rich company already backing it?

Yohoho my dudes and dudettes and dudex. And a bottle of rum.

I already have the ad free tier. It's what I've been paying for!!!

Disney hotstar and other OTTs are going to follow the suite, IG. Fuck them all.

Cancelled Prime a couple of years ago so that Amazon wasn't the default for ordering things anymore and wouldn't watch anything even via the free 30-day trial that they offer from time to time if commercials are shown. I'm still subscribed to Netflix as the family uses it extensively, but if something is not on there, Kodi has proven to be a good matey.

All hand hoy!

Why don't you just make a free version that plays ads? You know that reason why every sane person uses Tubi?

You know that one site which is the only that I don't use my ad blocker on, because I actually respect them enough to let the ads play

This is fine with me, since clearly they'll pass their increased profit onto their underpaid employees.

Wait...

Yarrr!

This is why I refused to ever buy cable: I am not going to pay for a service that forces ads on me. One or the other fuckers.

Scamazon

Got prime when Grand Tour came out. Now that we get two episodes a year if lucky not worth it anymore. Get better service with Instacart for delivery anyway.

They should also make people watch add bofore they are handed their Amazon Prime order. Unless they pay for the higher tier subscription.

Anyway, good to know that Amazon is finally doing something to fix its fledgling revenue from Prime.

Cable is starting to look reasonable with all the subscription services and ads out there now

I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner.

A year of prime costs about the same, or less, than every other ad free streaming service and prime video is only one of its benefits.

I'd like to cancel my Amazon subscription but unfortunately, my entire family is using it to buy stuff off Amazon.

"Commercials in movies and series will be introduced in the U.S., UK, Germany, and Canada in early 2024, followed by France, Italy, Spain, Mexico, and Australia later in the year."

So rest of the world is safe from this at least until 2025?

This is one of the reasons I say no to DRM

I wonder what their reason for cable-cutting will be now.

If you want a free version with ads they have Freevee. I mean, they don't have the same shows but it's free.

Time to telegram.

The combination of all these streaming services won't be cheap. I've just used a video downloader to optimise my subscription before I cancel my prime. (As long as I don't share it with others.)

I think a downloader will be neccessaire, it will cost too much money if we bought them all.