Canadians will soon see commercials on Amazon Prime Video
Canadians will soon see commercials on Amazon Prime Video
The ad tier will now be the default of the retailer's Prime membership, but subscribers can opt out of commercials by paying an additional $2.99 per month.
And the enshitification of the internet continues
Yarr!
For real...
That's one way to get me to spend zero dollars per month on Amazon Prime.
seems like I will no longer be paying for prime. that's honestly the reason I started in the first place, shipping was secondary to me.
Same, and I also like the channels subscriptions so everything is in one place. But I also pirate a lot so I guess I'll have to do it even more!
Not this Canadian because I'm cancelling. There's not much worth watching on there anyhow. Not enough to tolerate commercials.
How can I see commercials on Amazon Prime Video if I don't subscribe to Amazon Prime Video?
I have this service and never use it, instead pirating the material they have for a much enhanced viewing experience. I love irony.
Piracy gets you a higher media quality, gives you more options for playback, doesn't require an constant internet connection and gives you permanent access. Why would I pay for a worse experience?
edit: I'd like to add that I would gladly pay higher than DVD/Bluray prices to get DRM free media from the original publisher.
Preach it brother. I setup a 30TB Plex server with all the Arr's and couldn't be happier.
Even if my internet drops, I can still watch everything I have.
Exactly right.
all of them? what if they dont use amazon prime? those poor people!
Why would they not use prime? They are all owned by Amazon after all!
For the last year, the number of worthwhile movies that I can watch on Amazon vs. through a paid subscription to someone else on Amazon has been steadily decreasing. Honestly, they've been getting scummier for five years. This may be the cancellation of my Prime service.
Phew! I was going to forget to cancel my prime subscription since the holiday season has come to an end.
In the Prime app, you can see how much you've saved with Prime over the last year... Looks like it will be cheaper for me to just cancel outright.
Oh.
I misinterpreted this, thinking it was showing me savings on shipping and such.
Instead, I think it's referring specifically to savings on purchases that were Prime Exclusive Deals or maybe Prime Early Access.
Apologies for the wild goose chase.
Adam Conover did a great video about "Free shipping" is a scam and actually ends up costing you more overall. Ultimately the companies are using the same logistics companies you could with no special discounts, and in order to make a profit pocket the excess. Which isn't as bad as the alternative what is happened with insurance where the cost of everything ballooned to obscene extents even if you had a plan, then once they were too big to fail insurance companies just stopped paying out leaving you in a smoldering crater of the full hyperinflated price.
But just because you can see a "price" for shipping. That doesn't mean that's what it actually costs the company.
It is literally my job to write the code that queries the carrier (UPS/FedRx/Speedy/Etc) and generates a label and receipt. 99% of our clients fudge the "cost" that the end customer can see. The end customer thinks it cost $20 to ship their package but the API returned $6 from UPS.
We also offer rating so that their website can "calculate" a rate of $20 externally and $6 behind the scenes.
I mean ultimately someone is paying the shipping but I don't see how it's bad, or good.
Where do you find this in the app? I found a tally for what prime services I’d used, but no savings total yet….
Interesting! I can't find that on the mobile site, maybe I'll find it in the desktop version....
The enshittification of all the paid services is just making piracy that much more attractive. Just last night, we searched up a new comedy special, found it was on Netflix (which we have access to), but just watched it through piracy anyway. At this point, it's easier to pirate content than figure out which streaming service it's on.
Bye prime!
Somehow I'm already seeing ads on Prime. Must be some channel my wife subscribed us to?
Yeah, I've been catching up on Doctor Who and the ads at the beginning of episodes were skippable last week, but today they're not, and the ads they're talking about in this article don't even start until the end of January, so it's likely to just get worse.
I won't know though, cancelled my account this evening.
Weird; I’ve been doing the same with no ads. Maybe because I’m using uBlock Origin?
Just out of curiousity, is there an Amazon competitor for online shopping? I mostly use eBay and AliExpress for tech stuff, but the $3/month grab after spending $120/year on Prime is just bullshit.
Yarrr. I think not.
The next ten years are all going to be about migrating users to the ad supported teir. That's where the real money is.
