I’ll be sure not to renew my Prime Video subscription then.
There’s very little I watch on Amazon to start with.
Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year
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Agreed. I'm somewhat furious at Apple for having ads for their other shows before showing me what I've selected to watch on Apple TV+. Is there any way to disable that?
On tvOS: Settings -> Accessibility -> Vision -> Motion -> Auto-Play Video Previews -> Off It actually seems to work. Amazingly well hidden, I must say. Bravo.
I wonder are we thinking about the same thing - I assumed the original poster was referring to the pre-roll trailers that play ahead of an episode of a TV show or film. I tried this setting but unfortunately it doesn't seem to remove those... does it do that for you?
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#213Yea if they do this we’re going to cancel. Live is bad enough, but we don’t do ads in our house. Period. Everyone should have this bias. Then we wouldn’t have this shit show.
Unfortunately, ad supported stream services are making tons of cash and aren't going anywhere.
Just like Netflix and password sharing crackdown, outside of the tech bubble, people don't care. Or don't care enough.
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Even if this were the case (it's not), there's still a time cost - I have to find the brand without the logo that's the same quality. I buy athletic shorts maybe once every 2-3 years almost always on Black Friday. I know Nike shorts will be high quality, and I know they'll fit. Wading through the many non-logo brands, trying them on, returning the ones that are bad, etc. might take me several hours to save tens of do…
If you take the time to understand what makes a quality shoe, it will save you time and money and embarrassment (like, you wouldn't be caught dead wearing Common Projects and would be embarrassed for someone wearing them). No need to rely on logos, which is weakly correlated to quality. Check this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/RoseAnvil
Did not expect a reference to that viral common projects vid on here haha. Though I did snatch a decently used pair of achilles for $60 and have been my go to for the last three years (the soles r now smooth as a rock so I have been wearing them less out of caution). But I absolutely love those shoes: ridiculously comfortable, easy to clean, go with literally everything.
Now I can’t say they’re worth $450 or whatever. And no idea if they’re better than Koio’s—had I found a used pair of those for cheaper, I’d own those instead. So with all things, YMMV. I agree with the sentiment of “don’t equate brand/price with quality” tho
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On tvOS: Settings -> Accessibility -> Vision -> Motion -> Auto-Play Video Previews -> Off It actually seems to work. Amazingly well hidden, I must say. Bravo.
I wonder are we thinking about the same thing - I assumed the original poster was referring to the pre-roll trailers that play ahead of an episode of a TV show or film. I tried this setting but unfortunately it doesn't seem to remove those... does it do that for you?
I was thinking about those pre-roll trailers, yes. It seemed to remove them for me, but perhaps it was a random false "negative".
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#216I 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…
For 50 years of my life, my dad always finalized a deal for a new car with one last requirement: the car must be free of all dealership logos (back then the dealership glued - or in some instances screwed - the dealership placard/logo onto the back trunk of the car). He was nasty about it and it always made me cringe. But they also always complied.
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#217I am figuring by a decade in change:
1) A completely ad-free tier. Costs an extra thirty dollars per month, most of which goes to making the platforms own "originals" that nobody much wants.
2) A "some-ads" tier. (This already exists) Just a few. You won't mind much. And at an extra fifteen a month, what a steal!
3) The "lots of ads" tier. The basic offering.
4) The "tons of ads" tier, might as well be watching television. Programs may have material removed so as to fit more ads into the runtime. Microtransaction pay of a few bucks.
5) The "vicious hellscape of ads" tier. Like #4, but the various offsprings of Stable Diffusion and whatever will seamlessly overlay and inject product placement through the entire show. A character won't be offered a whiskey, they'll be offered Johnnie Walker Blue Label whiskey, and in the original actor's voice. Cans of Coke or Pepsi (whoever is paying most according to that hour's ad market) will be digitally added to dinner tables and nightstands. Some actors may be "faced over" with more popular actors. It's not Payola anymore, but a pop hit of 2035 will be playing in Casablanca. But it is free.
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#218They've already killed Prime Video in the last year. I cancelled my Amazon Prime subscription yesterday because: - 1-day delivery is not a thing anymore - Prime Video used to be my favorite streaming service, now it sucks. Every time I want to watch something, I have to pay an additional subscription, and it's way too hard to find what's actually included - it's too expensive for the value it provides (70€). Actually…
only buy it when you need it and when its cheaper than regular shipping, which is rare if you hvae over $25 of stuff.
I rarely buy stuff, there are only like 1 or 2 times a year when I need something fast that I need Prime. I try to get from Walmart of other sites if possible.
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Find me an unbranded pair of basketball shorts that will last 10 years, have consistent sizing, and cost less than $20 at an outlet and I’ll gladly buy them. I could gamble on “YAWHOHOMELIFE Men's Running Workout Shorts Training Gym Athletic Joggers Sweat Short Pants Quick Dry Breathable with Zip Pockets”, or pay like $5 more for a little white embroidered check mark and the aforementioned benefits without needing to…
What I've found is that "serious" equipment tends to have subdued branding, or at least has some options like that. I have a pair of basketball shorts that are still going strong after something like 12 years. They're Nike, but the logo is black on black, so barely visible if you don't look for it. Ditto for the basketball shoes. The logo is barely visible since it's the same color as the shoe. The shoes are somewhat…
Similarly high end consumer brands like Gucci don't blast their labels on their high end products. The cheap stuff is cheap because you become a walking billboard. The expensive stuff is expensive because you just paid for quality. That's even within one company so your point is even more extreme across an industry.
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#220Imagine a world where a guy worth over 150 billion dollars who owns a company worth over a trillion dollars and has a quasi-monopoly over the internet is in such desperate need of more money to the point where he's going to put advertising on his video platform, even though people already pay for the platform. Instead of raising prices moderately, or putting better content on the platform, they decide to instead put…
> quasi-monopoly AKA, not a monopoly. Monopoly is such a funny buzzword to me because it's both wildly misused and completely misunderstood to be an inherently bad thing. In reality, there is rarely a true monopoly and the only bad thing about them is that they enable anti-competitive behavior and that's the thing that's illegal and bad. Amazon "quasi-monopoly" comes from having the best service. Great service is goo…
Agreed. Products/companies can be anticompetitive even if they are not a monopoly. Products can also contain their own submarket in which they achieved a monopoly through anticompetitive practices. For example ios on Iphones. That last bit is somewhat controversial but is the opinion of the current justice department of the executive branch of the government and seems to be the correct reading of the Kodak case[0]. In any event I don't think Prime video is anticompetitive except in as much as it can take losses for years to price others out of the market but that doesn't seem to be happening.
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastman_Kodak_Co._v._Image_Tec....