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We need a class action lawsuit to ban ads in all media consumed as part of premium services. The free TV channels back in the day had ads and premium TV channels like HBO had no ads. This is somehow the worst of both worlds. You pay a premium for the Prime subscription and get Prime video ads even after paying.
Bundling should be regulated in general. It's similar to Microsoft 365 jacking up the prices by claiming they're adding more "value" with products / features no one asked for. I use almost nothing else from Amazon besides free shipping (they used to have Amazon Music which was pretty good, but now they limited the number of skips); I watch The Boys but I'm sure it'd be cheaper to buy seasons / episodes a-la-carte.
We need a class action lawsuit to ban ads in all media consumed as part of premium services. The free TV channels back in the day had ads and premium TV channels like HBO had no ads. This is somehow the worst of both worlds. You pay a premium for the Prime subscription and get Prime video ads even after paying.
Cable TV didn't have ads when it started, and then started adding advertisements once they realized they could get away with it. That's when you ended up with HBO, which was an additional cost above standard cable TV. Corporations are never "content", but always require more and more income.
Bundling should be regulated in general. It's similar to Microsoft 365 jacking up the prices by claiming they're adding more "value" with products / features no one asked for. I use almost nothing else from Amazon besides free shipping (they used to have Amazon Music which was pretty good, but now they limited the number of skips); I watch The Boys but I'm sure it'd be cheaper to buy seasons / episodes a-la-carte.
For me that subscription comes with all of Microsoft Office, 1 TB storage, and ad free email for less than $6/month. I would never pay that little if those were delivered as three different services. I think Amazon Prime is a ripoff, but Microsoft 365 seems like a bad example of bundling gone wrong.
Prime Video is 2.5€ in my country and it comes with Twitch Prime goodies too. At this price point idm the ads
We need a class action lawsuit to ban ads in all media consumed as part of premium services. The free TV channels back in the day had ads and premium TV channels like HBO had no ads. This is somehow the worst of both worlds. You pay a premium for the Prime subscription and get Prime video ads even after paying.
Making the removal of ads a feature of a paid product is (or was) a common pattern but it's not any sort of law. You can still get cable channels with no commercials, I have a handful of them despite not paying for the HBO tier. And DVRs make commercials on other channels skippable. Streaming tech was always destined to take away control of the video stream so that commercials would become unskippable. That's what's…
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For me that subscription comes with all of Microsoft Office, 1 TB storage, and ad free email for less than $6/month. I would never pay that little if those were delivered as three different services. I think Amazon Prime is a ripoff, but Microsoft 365 seems like a bad example of bundling gone wrong.
I was mostly talking about the Enterprise subscriptions (E3/E5) that CTOs really love getting for their employees. Glad to hear the home subscription provides good value to you.
> In addition to being “unfair,” the suit alleges that Amazon illegally benefited by advertising Prime Video as “commercial-free” for years prior to launching its ad-supported tier, which “harms both consumers and honest competition,” according to the complaint. I.e. dumping. It's anti-competitive to offer something at unsustainable prices to drive out competition (and these events suggest it was unsustainable).
This is nonsense - what they offer is constantly changing.
> In addition to being “unfair,” the suit alleges that Amazon illegally benefited by advertising Prime Video as “commercial-free” for years prior to launching its ad-supported tier, which “harms both consumers and honest competition,” according to the complaint. I.e. dumping. It's anti-competitive to offer something at unsustainable prices to drive out competition (and these events suggest it was unsustainable).
Price too high greed, price the same - collusion, price too low dumping. This is nonsense - what they offer is constantly changing.