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Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year

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Re: Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year

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Post by coldpie »

nemacol wrote: post #71
mortehu wrote: post #39

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Some headsets now come with USB-C connectors instead of 3.5mm jack. For example Koss PortaPro.

In a decade or two when every device has the USB-C instead of 3.5, I will be pretty excited about that. Until then I have to spend my time searching out those dongles.

It's not so bad. Buy a half-dozen dongles, grab a new one from the pile when your current one breaks, and buy another half-dozen when you take the last one from the pile. I find Best Buy's Insignia brand lasts longest. Is it as good a headphone jack? No. But it's not that bad either.

Re: Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year

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Fluorescence wrote: post #34

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There are lots of decent signals out there if someone did want to track it: standard site/search term tracking, the number of leechers of torrents, activity in pirate subreddits/discords, installs of Jellyfin/Plex servers etc. FWIW I can't say I have noticed any radical increase in popularity. The number of Leechers on the most popular piratebay torrents are only in the 100s so I assume it's very niche. I suspect tha…

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Re: Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year

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Post by 4RealFreedom »

usefulcat wrote: post #35
flanked-evergl wrote: post #8

I can barely find something to watch on Prime which is why I only subscribe like 1 month a year, and for that month I spend maybe 8 total hours watching. Maybe if Amazon made better content, then they could get more revenue.

The Expanse was excellent, IMO. Apart from that I mostly agree. I've tried Jack Ryan and Wheel of Time, which were good but not amazing.

I agree there isn't a lot of good content on Prime. Expanse was excellent (even though they rushed the last season) and The Boys is really good.

Re: Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year

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Post by rendall »

distcs wrote: post #95
rendall wrote: post #85

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Yes, agreed. It still does not explain the practice in a way that makes sense to me. There are so many and much better ways to signal disposable wealth. To me it immediately signals "more money than sense".

Honest question. Where you buy your clothes from? As much as I would like to buy clothes without logos, they are not easy to find where I live.

I live in Finland. My favorite place to get sportswear and just daily wear is H&M. No logos. My favorite design house is Makia. Really amazing stuff. https://makia.com/ but if it has a big-assed Makia logo I don't buy it.

When I lived in New York there were so many options it was hard to choose, but I'd check out used clothing boutiques for fun things.

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Post by t1mmen »

20 years ago, Steam was the reason I stopped pirating games. Netflix et al had the same effect for TV & movies.

Today, I subscribe to 5 different streaming services, and occasionally do a month of various “channels” in those apps.

I want to pay for content, but the camels back is about to break. I truly don’t want to set sails again, but the bullshit has been adding up for a while. Ads is where I draw the line.

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Post by coldpie »

slowmovintarget wrote: post #16

I'm willing to buy Blu-Rays. I'm also willing to stop watching "content" altogether. I'm already hating the experience of the forced unskippable ads for Paramount shows that play at the beginning (AT MAX VOLUME) of every Paramount+ channel stream (Star Trek... sigh). If I have to watch ads like regular network TV, which I now find unwatchable, I'd just have to do without.

Weirdly, I'm able to skip Paramount's pre-roll ads on Xbox, but not on their iPhone app. Anyway, I've heard Paramount's streaming service isn't doing so well[1], so with any luck they will give up and go back to Netflix.

[1] https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/paramount-just-quit-stre...

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Post by nobody9999 »

34679 wrote: post #18
sarchertech wrote: post #14

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You need a streaming aggregator for the cycle to be complete.

The Pirate Bay

I'd add that I actually pay for Amazon Prime (mostly for the free shipping -- heavy stuff costs a fortune otherwise), but use other means to access Prime Video content because of the ads (there are a raft of Prime Video offerings that already have ads) and the spying.

Re: Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year

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Post by mavhc »

nemacol wrote: post #71
mortehu wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some headsets now come with USB-C connectors instead of 3.5mm jack. For example Koss PortaPro.

In a decade or two when every device has the USB-C instead of 3.5, I will be pretty excited about that. Until then I have to spend my time searching out those dongles.

Need at least 2 usb-c connectors so you can charge as well
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