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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 c0pium »

makeitdouble wrote: post #247

> No action is required for Prime members While I understand why it needs to be stated, it was such a funny line in the middle of this announcement. This is also one of these cases where it goes out in US and some select western countries first, and they will shape the evolution of the product before it hits the rest of the world. I'm pretty much hoping there's a big uproar in the first countries, because otherwise i…

Ah yes, the classic shakedown where companies sell products for money. How dare they.

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Post by c0pium »

BeetleB wrote: post #251
netman21 wrote: post #242

Ads completely detract from the user experience watching movies. Amazon should know this.

And you should know they have an ad-free option.

They raised the price of Prime $36/year, but you can opt out by having ads in video.

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Post by allthecybers »

So they’ve abandoned being the world’s best employer by forcing return to office and return to hub. Now they are publicly abandoning customer obsession by putting ads in the middle of a movie. Unless of course you pay them extra on top of a $100+ subscription fee that has already increased YoY. This is just the start of the Amazon extracting more and more from their customers. Enshitification of everything continues.

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Post by tech234a »

verandaguy wrote: post #272
BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #271

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's true, but in this case I would argue that the title "An Update On" is itself aggressively editorialized into fake bland neutrality. Correcting that is very different than the normal prohibition on title changes.

I don’t make the rules, but i do think it’s funny how “an update on” has taken on a bit of a life of its own. For example when Google says it, they’re probably killing off a service.

Yeah that's part of the reason I left the title as-is when I submitted the article

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Post by c0pium »

Dennip wrote: post #266

Whilst I use prime video, thats only because it comes 'for free' alongside shipping, which (at least in the UK) still is pretty good in terms of next-day, sometimes even same day. I wish they would do a cheaper tier without all these additional 'benefits' (Video, Music, Twitch etc), but I suspect the reality is that its sort of a loss leader even without those benefits.

Good news then, that’s what they did. You get a $36/year discount for not getting ad free movies and a $120/year discount for not getting music.

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Post by yumraj »

c0pium wrote: post #282
BeetleB wrote: post #251

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And you should know they have an ad-free option.

They raised the price of Prime $36/year, but you can opt out by having ads in video.

Not exactly. It’s $2.99 per month. So pay that when there is something good to watch on Prime Video, then remove it.

Though I’m hoping that will work, will see when if actually happens.

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Post by ytdytvhxgydvhh »

cgio wrote: post #265
jmyeet wrote: post #257

All these streaming services are rushing towards $20/month at a time when the content pipeline has dried up with the WGA/SAG strike over the unsustainable streaming model. I’ve always resented the bundling of Prime delivery with a wannabe Netflix service. This change means I either won’t use the the video service anymore or I’ll have to pay more. Time to go back to piracy.

Exactly this. Is this a way to pass the cost of the WGA/SAG negotiation to consumers? It sounds like it, and it might even make sense as such. The challenge is that the cost is passed while content is not generated, so as consumer the reasonable choice is to also "strike" on subscriptions for a while, until the pipeline is full again. Hopefully this strike will stick, the same way subscriptions tend to stick.

Now that you mention it I’m surprised the actors and/or writers haven’t suggested folks cancel their streaming services temporarily to show support for the “little guys” against the studios. Maybe they’re afraid of the long-term effects if people do get used to watching less?

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Post by sparrish »

uejfiweun wrote: post #267

Thank you Amazon for this display of unbridled greed. You've helped me realize that I really don't need Prime for anything, I barely use Amazon anyway due to all the fake products, so I am going to cancel and save myself >$100 a year. If I cancel Prime, do I lose access to the Prime Videos I have already bought? I have LOTR extended on there as well as a bunch of seasons of Always Sunny.

No, you won't lose access to videos you've already purchased if you cancel Prime. I cancelled a few years ago and can still access the video I purchased before.

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Post by ComputerGuru »

uejfiweun wrote: post #267

Thank you Amazon for this display of unbridled greed. You've helped me realize that I really don't need Prime for anything, I barely use Amazon anyway due to all the fake products, so I am going to cancel and save myself >$100 a year. If I cancel Prime, do I lose access to the Prime Videos I have already bought? I have LOTR extended on there as well as a bunch of seasons of Always Sunny.

You keep the videos you bought but some are saying you’ll only be able to watch them with ads.

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Post by clay_the_ripper »

crazygringo wrote: post #259

Probably most people will disagree, but I'm happy with this. I pay for Prime exclusively for the shipping. I never wanted video in the first place. So if Amazon needs to raise prices/revenue, I prefer that they keep Prime the same, and raise the price (now +$2.99/mo.) for people who are big watchers of Prime Video and don't want ads. So this price segmentation makes sense to me.

Although I hate ads, the option to pay $3/mo to not have them seems entirely reasonable.

The value I get from prime is far in excess of what I pay for it - even at a much higher price.

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