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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 rendall »

esistgut wrote: post #68
rendall wrote: post #48

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 buy Nike running shoes because they are cheap, durable and comfortable, I don't actually use the to run. The other obvious answer to this question is "because they are status symbols", for some people anyway.

Shoes, sure, because they do make great running shoes, and I suppose - forgive me - if one doesn't care about making a good visual impression, they are quite comfortable for everyday wear. I'm more confused by the visors and shirts and such. Any ostensible status garnered by being an ad is immediately overbalanced by the questionable taste and decisions of its wearer.

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Post by tpmx »

m_eiman wrote: post #70
rendall wrote: post #48

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…

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.

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

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Post by ghaff »

ilyt wrote: post #84
swexbe wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nor sure why anyone would expect somwthkng else. Streaming doesn’t make things any cheaper than traditional tv, production might be slightly cheaper but not because of streaming. Shareholders still want the same roi. Everything being VoD is a pretty nice feature though.

> Streaming doesn’t make things any cheaper than traditional tv Streaming is oodles cheaper than owning traditional TV station.

But the networks didn’t (mostly) own the traditional TV stations. Streaming cuts the middlemen out of the loop which is probably a bit cheaper though overall.

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

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Post by diyftw »

passwordoops wrote: post #5

So we all cut the cord to get away from restrictive, over-priced packages riddled with ads so we can end up with restrictive, over-priced packages riddled with ads. Say hello to the new boss, I guess

People who "cut the cord" yet signed up for the various alternatives didn't really cut anything. They just plugged their cord into a different hole.

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Post by distcs »

rendall wrote: post #85
mumblemumble wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's signaling. Wearing prominent logos sends yourself and others a message that you have the disposable income to pay twice as much for a version of the thing that has a special picture on it.

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.

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Post by rendall »

transcriptase wrote: post #83
rendall wrote: post #48

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…

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…

This is a false dichotomy. Your choice is to pay extra for a logo, or pay less for equivalent quality but no logo. You choose logo. Why?

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Post by rendall »

natpalmer1776 wrote: post #78
rendall wrote: post #48

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…

For certain items it is part of the cost for the quality of good being procured at a given price point. I’m sure there are no-label options of equal quality and comfort, but the process of finding those options is a much greater (time) cost than the item itself is worth to me. In a different context, if an artisan knows they are the best (by a large margin) and put their mark on every item produced, few seeking the a…

I would understand if the choice were good quality with logo versus questionable crapshoot with no logo. That's not usually the option, though. Perhaps you can't just look at clothing and see whether it is quality or not? Look at the stitching and materials, for instance? I happily pay more for good quality, no-logo than, frankly, logo with middling quality.

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

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Post by mumblemumble »

NickC25 wrote: post #69

Imagine 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…

> Some people just don't have the ability to say "yeah, we've got enough".

It seems fairly clear to me that having more stuff makes people more greedy. And, yes, there is causation there, not just correlation.

You can even see this in young children. Give a pack of preschoolers a mountain of toys, more than they could possibly use, and they will immediately begin hoarding and fighting over them. Give that exact same group of preschoolers three empty cardboard boxes and a wooden spoon, and they will use them as props in a cooperative game.

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Post by Tokkemon »

lucidguppy wrote: post #86

I am definitely getting more books from the library now. I'm sorry but everything sucks now. There's no point anymore in trying to find good content. They've done this on purpose - and you can't fight it.

I don't think it was on purpose, just perverse incentives of the system.

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Post by joobus »

lucidguppy wrote: post #86

I am definitely getting more books from the library now. I'm sorry but everything sucks now. There's no point anymore in trying to find good content. They've done this on purpose - and you can't fight it.

Agree, and I do the same. So many books, so little time.
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