Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year
www.bbc.co.uk
Amazon says its Prime Video users will see ads on TV shows and movies unless they pay extra.

This will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back for me.

  • HubertManne
    7•2 years ago

    paying is fine, and free with ads is fine, but pay to see ads. no thank you.

  • m-p{3}
    60•2 years ago

    And piracy is yet again the superior experience.

    • SkaveRat
      24•2 years ago

      I started pirating their shows, even though I pay for prime. Their UX is just so absolutely bad, that it was easier to use torrents

  • LoafyLemon
    2•2 years ago

    I will be switching from Amazon Prime to RealDebrid. It’s cheaper, and the service seems better. 🏴‍☠️

  • Mx Phibb
    2•2 years ago

    We were already leaning towards replacing it with WalMart+ before this announcement. It used to be worth it when it was cheaper and got you next day delivery, but those are gone. We have little use for it’s various features, so we figure give W+ a try for a year, it’s cheaper, and seems to cover our needs, though there’s a good chance that’ll be a one and done thing, since I don’t think we’ll find it worth it, but I don’t see us going back to Prime.

  • admiralteal
    6•2 years ago

    If you subscribe to other channels via Amazon Prime (e.g., Paramount+ through the Prime app), they already serve you 70-90s unskippable ads. Often ads for the very show you are about to watch. It’s infuriating.

    If I were paying for it myself it would be totally unacceptable. Since I’m just using someone else’s account, it still makes me mad but I’ll tolerate it.

  • bquintbEnglish
    14•2 years ago

    Welp, back to the high seas…

    🎶Do what you want cuz a pirate is free, You.Are.A.Pirate!🎶

  • kayjay
    18•2 years ago

    Haven’t paid for a streaming service since 2020. Piracy proves yet again to be the only real option.

  • BigVault
    1•2 years ago

    We already pay for prime, all this will do is make me watch the shows I already pay for from my Unraid server.

  • Unaware7013
    1•2 years ago

    Even though I have prime, I think I’ve used their video service like 2 or 4 times. The interface is shit and the included media was sub par the vast majority of the time unless I wanted to pay to watch something that wasn’t included.