Comment on Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 6 months ago
“We aim to have meaningfully fewer ads than linear TV and other streaming TV providers. No action is required from you, and there is no change to the current price of your Prime membership,”
The double-speak is relatively subtle, but it’s always interesting to see how much work they put into gaslighting their customers:
- “No action is required from you…” - yes, Amazon hopes we do nothing, but this is double-speak because Amazon unilaterally changed the assumptions underlying agreement, so “no action” is acquiescence to a materially worse reality.
- “…there is no change to the current price of your Prime membership” - yes, because Amazon is now selling our time and attention, but this is double-speak because they are still charging extra even if not in dollars.
trafficnab@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
The enshittification will continue until profit margins improve
geekworking@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Enshitification won’t stop until the frogs realize that they are being boiled to death and jump out of the pot.
cybersandwich@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Or until we get back to 0% interest rates that these companies could get for the past 10 years. The free money dried up!
KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Hey, I want free money, too.
Plopp@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The enshittification will continue until the demand for profit is removed*
mjhelto@lemm.ee 6 months ago
…demand for constant growth is removed.*
Empricorn@feddit.nl 6 months ago
Lol
What is this mythical profit margin/amount that companies would be willing to accept? There is no limit to corporate greed…