Amazon to add limited ads to Prime Video starting in early 2024
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Re: Amazon to add limited ads to Prime Video starting in early 2024
#2Enshittification strikes again!
Re: Amazon to add limited ads to Prime Video starting in early 2024
#3Interesting how every subscription business is slowly turning to the traditional ad-supported model. People might refuse it, but ad-supported is one of the most efficient business models on both the consumer side and business side. Allows more customers to access a service, for free, with the same quality. Plus, every company needs marketing, and even consumers need it. It allows us to notice things we might need in our lives. Not sure why people thought that the subscription model was going to take over. Imagine having to pay for every single service/website we use daily
Re: Amazon to add limited ads to Prime Video starting in early 2024
#4Interesting how every subscription business is slowly turning to the traditional ad-supported model. People might refuse it, but ad-supported is one of the most efficient business models on both the consumer side and business side. Allows more customers to access a service, for free, with the same quality. Plus, every company needs marketing, and even consumers need it. It allows us to notice things we might need in…
> Allows more customers to access a service, for free, with the same quality.
Being interrupted and attempted to be brainwashed every X minutes is not “the same quality”.
Re: Amazon to add limited ads to Prime Video starting in early 2024
#5The main reason I dropped prime is that the shipping stopped working. Two days slipped most of the time.
But what put me over the edge was their music stopped being included, it was another fee to remove adds and unlock everything.
And video had these annoying preroll ads. Frequently for things I already watched.
Now there will be ads throughout and it’s a monthly fee to get what was free.
I do like some prime shows -maisel and peripheral - but those get conveniently packaged up and downloaded through trackers.
The best UI experience for streaming is just torrent files autodownloading and being available the day after. No ads, no confusing interfaces. Id pay for this, but I can’t.
Re: Amazon to add limited ads to Prime Video starting in early 2024
#6Wtf am I even paying these parasites for.
Navigating this world is such a pain in the ass.
Re: Amazon to add limited ads to Prime Video starting in early 2024
#7Interesting how every subscription business is slowly turning to the traditional ad-supported model. People might refuse it, but ad-supported is one of the most efficient business models on both the consumer side and business side. Allows more customers to access a service, for free, with the same quality. Plus, every company needs marketing, and even consumers need it. It allows us to notice things we might need in…
Except Amazon Prime continues to be a paid service. I quickly stopped watching prime because they already had excessive advertising, I can only imagine how much worse the service is becoming.
Re: Amazon to add limited ads to Prime Video starting in early 2024
#8What is curious is that all entertainment really only seems to be viable when heavily cross-subsidized by everyone.
Re: Amazon to add limited ads to Prime Video starting in early 2024
#9Interesting how every subscription business is slowly turning to the traditional ad-supported model. People might refuse it, but ad-supported is one of the most efficient business models on both the consumer side and business side. Allows more customers to access a service, for free, with the same quality. Plus, every company needs marketing, and even consumers need it. It allows us to notice things we might need in…
Hope you forgot the sarcasme sign.
Seriously doubt that every company needs "marketing". And refuse to believe that consumers need it.
Re: Amazon to add limited ads to Prime Video starting in early 2024
#10After many years as a subscriber this really brings the value of Amazon Prime into question for me. I no longer order enough stuff from them to make it worthwhile. I do use Prime Reading but the quality is mostly poor, "landfill crime" genre.
Such a compromised video service would quite likely push me out - I just won't watch ads on a service I pay for.