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The article pretty clearly states that there's an ad free tier for an extra $3 a month.
Yup. The other way to view this story is that Amazon is raising the price of Prime by $3/month and introducing a new product, Prime with Ads, that will be $3/month less than Prime.
cheers!
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Even putting aside the ubiquity of tech like this: we had a particularly busy year and I ended up traveling a lot more often for work than I usually do, and it was insane to me how many fucking ads are in television now. Mind you I was a from the go cord cutter, when I left my parents and spread my wings, I never once wanted cable. I had it through them and it was... fine. Certainly not worth the absurd prices it goe…
Ads aren't going away, the war is lost, no service will leave that money on the table anymore past its temporary startup customer-friendly phase. It's not worth complaining about. What does still matter is whether the video stream tech gives you the freedom to seek/skip or not. Then the ads become more or less moot. Plex for local media gives you freedom, sure. My cable box does. Streaming will not.
But you are right eventually ads will get everywhere and even if you are willing to pay more it just means you are making enough that they can charge you even more.
The solution is to abandon any platform you can where you can't block ads.
I flat out do not watch ads. If a platform has ads, I do not watch it full stop. I pay YouTube for no ads. If I lost that option, I would not watch YouTube. Same with all of the other streaming services. Netflix pushed it last year with preview rolls. It was barely acceptable/tolerable. But I will eagerly jettison any service that makes me pay for ads. Heck, I even look askance at people who willingly pay money to un…
1. Go to a Payless ShoeSource store.
2. Find the sneaker (AKA trainers, tennis shoes, kicks, takkies, sportex, and many other names depending on where you are in the world) aisle.
3. Look at the logo on the shoes I'm wearing.
4. If they have the same shoes in my size, and I don't see any others that are noticeably less expensive, buy those shoes again.
5. If they no longer have the same shoes or there are shoes that are noticeably less expensive, try on shoes to find out what they have that is comfortable and ergonomic. Then pick a pair and buy them.
I say "used to" because after 40 years of buying shoes that way Payless closed. When the announced they were going to close I went to the two local Payless stores and bought all the comfortable ergonomic sneakers in my size. I have not yet settled on a new shoe buying strategy.
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.
[dupe]
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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.
You may be interested -- Karhu is from Finland and makes minimally branded sneakers
I flat out do not watch ads. If a platform has ads, I do not watch it full stop. I pay YouTube for no ads. If I lost that option, I would not watch YouTube. Same with all of the other streaming services. Netflix pushed it last year with preview rolls. It was barely acceptable/tolerable. But I will eagerly jettison any service that makes me pay for ads. Heck, I even look askance at people who willingly pay money to un…
I was surprised that Prime is ranked 3rd according to 2022 data from Statista, I almost never watch anything on it but watch several channels through it and wonder if that counts towards their stats. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1368336/video-streaming-...
If I get in mind to watch a movie or show that's not a popular current series, I find most of the time that only prime has it, or prime and some streaming service that I'm not going to add to my stack of subscriptions just for one movie/show, especially because nowadays thanks to my experience with Hulu, it takes a little research to tell if I'm going to get ads even if I pay for the service, and I'd rather not spend…