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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.
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.
It's day 2 at Amazon.
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…
Except you still do get ads. With every single major YouTube video dropping a "now to talk about our sponsor" segment.
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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.
Dior and Louis Vuitton love putting their logos all over their products, especially accessories. I think it cheapens the brand, but i'm not their marketing person.
The lower cost ones have the logo because that's how the people you're around will know. The higher cost ones don't have the logo because the people around you will recognize quality.
I guess paying for Netflix is not so bad if it stays ad free.
Likewise with podcasts, I press the jump forward button to skip ads. It's satisfactory if not perfect.
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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.
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 pay YouTube for no ads Except you still do get ads. With every single major YouTube video dropping a "now to talk about our sponsor" segment.