I recently did the same on my jellyfin server. 100x the ads actually.
Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads Per Hour
Submitted 3 months ago by bimbimboy@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.adweek.com/media/amazon-doubles-prime-video-ad-load/
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huquad@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I’ll do you one better. I’m upping the ads on mine by 1,000,000x.
TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 3 months ago
You know what ? I’m starting a Jellyfin only to stream all the ads !
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Amazon is clearly struggling financially, and needs the revenue. Think of the starving investors!
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Let’s start a donation campaign for them…
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
They can crash on my couch, if they need to.
dan1101@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Also be aware that Amazon donated one million dollars to the Trump inauguration and is a sponsor of the Jun 14 military parade.
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Piracy, pirate and remember if you want to be free then a pirates life is the life for me.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 months ago
AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 months ago
bieren@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Just steal it. If its an amazon original, they will cancel it after 2 seasons anyway.
rodneyck@piefed.social 3 months ago
Right? I can't believe people actually pay for these services. Oh well, I guess someone has to. 🏴☠️
Scrollone@feddit.it 3 months ago
And I double my piracy. Checkmate, corporations.
Thorry84@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Oi Ue, it’s fooking diabolical mate. Omelander topped me wife and now more ads on the tele, diabolical.
Liberal_Ghost@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Get the pirate hats ready, we are sailing the high seas ☠️🏴☠️
Valmond@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Just renewed proton vpn yesterday (didn’t get any mails or anything, it just popped a box out of nowhere), had that sweet 3 year deal running out 🥲. Its some cash (a hundred something for 2 years) but I’m trying to do my honest work.jpg.
NWIBiHigh@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s pretty expensive. PIA is far less and just as effective and I’m sure there are others.
Liberal_Ghost@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I use Proton VPN, and their mail and password service. It has all worked flawlessly so far
jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 3 months ago
It’s like they want me to sail the high seas
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I worry the average person has no idea how to torrent.
tempest@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
The average person doesn’t even have a proper computer anymore. I guess you’re can still torrent on your phone but I’ve not tried it.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
To be fair, when I first got access to the internet as a kid, I also didn’t know.
It look me like a couple years of being tired of shitty ad-ridden streaming sites and digging through the internet before I even heard of The Pirate Bay and Torrents (Thanks to r/piracy btw 😎)
RevolverSly@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s why I cancelled my Prime subscription. After that, Amazon randomly re started my Prime subscription, twice; that’s why I deleted my Amazon account.
TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Fuck them, I’m not paying for ads, let alone paying more for more ads. I already got rid of my prime months ago, I need to stop supporting amazon anyway.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Nice I love it. We didn’t stop ads years ago. Content creators deserve to be paid right guys. Right!!
Auli@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I mean yes they deserve to get paid. Do you do stuff for free? I mean it’s funny how people complain about ads but nobody is willing to pay for anything.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah, people create stuff online without getting paid all the time. We literally built the Internet that way. Go back to the early days forums, blogs, dumb memes, personal websites, fan videos none of that was about money. People made stuff just to share it, to be part of something, or just because they wanted to.
It’s only after financial incentives got introduced ads, sponsorships, “influencer” money that everything started getting worse. Suddenly it’s all algorithm-chasing. Everyone’s copying each other, following trends, tweaking thumbnails, timing posts. The content got way more polished, surebut also way more boring. It’s all the same stuff over and over.
So yeah, people deserve to get paid if that’s what they want. But pretending like people only create if they’re paid is just wrong. Humans naturally create. Always have. We write songs, we draw, we tell jokes. Money didn’t start that, it ruined it. It made it a job. It made it about likes and reach and SEO. It turned the internet into a shopping mall.
Now everything online feels fake. Safe. Recycled. All because the moment you attach money to something, people start optimizing for profit instead of originality. That’s the trade-off.
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 3 months ago
doubles Prime Video piracy per hour
antisocialite@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Gotta pay for all those crappy movies they make starring Dwayne Johnson.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 3 months ago
It’s crazy how much money that cunt makes for the shittiest movies imaginable. Somehow people like that guy too.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
He’s made some genuinely good stuff though, Jumanji was far better than I ever expected.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I’m bored with him. But The Rundown is an awesome and underrated flick.
Auli@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
His movies make money.
rodneyck@piefed.social 3 months ago
Dwayne Johnson playing the same character in all his movies. Acting range = 0.
Mondez@lemdro.id 3 months ago
Pirated content of course has no advertising in it, so it makes sense to pay good money for a service that has adverts in it or how else am I going to learn about all those fabulous products I just have to buy?
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
They’re doing you a service, really, when you think about it. Out of the goodness of their hearts.
Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
You guys get ads on Prime?
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
You guys got Prime?
Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Yeah, and I don’t get why. I don’t pay for it. Got it once and cancelled it but somehow the account is still active.
D_C@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Nope.
Yaar, I’ve not had any streaming services for a good few years now. Shiver me timbers, matey!!macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 3 months ago
No, a good adblocker takes care of that.
Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
I think we just don’t get them in the EU. With our without adblocker
mesitoispro@ttrpg.network 3 months ago
It’s part of the humiliation ritual.
reddig33@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Still less than cable/broadcast which runs fifteen to twenty minutes of ads per hour. Given time, I’m sure streaming will catch up.
Tanoh@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Just a matter of time until you can’t chose what to watch on the lowest tier, you have to follow their playlist of what you should watch.
And we have come full circle back to broadcast TV
bimbimboy@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Exactly, I miss more ads in my lie. Amazon is truly lacking.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Trying to recoup the lost from spending too much on ROp series
WeUnite@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Amazon funded Trump’s inauguration, they’ve doubled their advertisements, they mistreat their warehouse workers, for people who don’t use Amazon often you’re paying more money than you’d spend on just paying for shipping on the occasion you need fast shipping or if you don’t need fast shipping you can still get free shipping if your order is more than the threshold which I think depends on your account might be $25 or $35.
Given all these things I really hope no one is subscribing to Amazon prime. I’d highly recommend anyone who uses Amazon prime to cancel it. Being shown advertisements on something you’re paying for is insane. This should be the final straw for any Amazon Prime customer.
Bongles@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Mine ended on the 5th, i didn’t renew it. It’s the first time since i got it that I didn’t but everything’s chinese rebranded shit there now and the shows are better if i torrent them.
KulunkelBoom@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Farewell Amazon videos. Oh, and I’m trying to do all my shopping NOT on Amazon. Fuck bezos, trump, and all the other orange butthole sucking fat cats.
Sofapunk@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I have been cancelling subscriptions to Trump supporting companies since January. I was on a yearly sub with Amazon.
Thanks for the reminder to cancel…
… cancelled.
Jaberw0cky@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Good thing I cancelled prime along with all my subscriptions and accounts with US companies just after Trump was elected.
mesitoispro@ttrpg.network 3 months ago
You shouldn’t have given them your money in the first place.
Philzlaus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You are right, better late than never.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I cancelled the moment they put ads in the plan I had been paying for. Don’t miss it for a second. Not even prime shipping.
Bwaz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Glad I cancelled Prime some time ago. Haven’t missed it and I usually get free shipping anyway by buying elsewhere. I’ll even pay more to avoid Amazon.
SoGrumpy@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Are you me? (I don’t mean name wise)
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I’ll be quitting after my wife finishes her series. I had noticed it is getting worse. Plus, unless I screwed up somehow, that $2.99 no-adverts charge appeared without any action on our part. We cancelled and went back to the cheaper version. It really bugs me that a company making money hand over fist finds it necessary to fuck their customers over unless they pay even more.
sturmblast@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It should be illegal to do what these companies are doing.
insomniac@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Amazon send you randomly start subscriptions. And then you think you’re crazy and did something stupid but I’m pretty sure they’re just evil. I have been subscribed to Audible multiple times and I have never listened to an audiobook in my life.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Do you know how many ads are on Jellyfin?
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
AA5B@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m was going to say …. I’ve mostly given up on Prime Video but tried to watch it last night and it was intolerable
Netflix too. Even trying to use it according to their rules, they decided my home network is not my home network. I have to keep using the extra authentication, and they are not willing or able to fix it. I’m really just holding out for Wednesday, but maybe I should cancel, and resubscribe in December when I can watch the whole season
I’m not currently frustrated with Disney+, but am also not watching anything there.
I generally try to stay at 2-3 subscriptions but sometimes none of them are worth ot
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 3 months ago
Why for Wednesday? What happens then?
FurtiveFugitive@lemm.ee 3 months ago
While my kids are watching Disney+, if there is a wifi blip the stream gets messed up. The video starts going into a fast forward type mode and the audio disappears. That’s when I hear my kid yell from the other room “there’s no words again!”
Never have those issues streaming from my jellyfin server.
NWIBiHigh@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Wow, how has the support ticket you opened gone?!
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 months ago
I watched just the one episode of Wednesday and came to the conclusion that whoever wrote it had never seen The Addams Family at any point.
It was painful to watch.
AA5B@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The first episode was definitely questionable but once the season got the family out of the way, the fan service out of the way, and discussed on Wednesday, it was much better.
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 3 months ago
Awesome, now piracy can also double!
RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 3 months ago
that’s why I stopped watching prime video movies
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m old, so many may not relate. I remember when the big selling point of this newfangled “cable TV” thing was zero ads. Can you imagine that?
Yeah, I have Prime for the savings on shipping. Got the Kodi addon for watching Prime, never used it except to watch The Expanse a few years ago. Would have been fucking enraged if I had seen ads cut into that. Fuck am I paying for?!
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I think about this all the time. Kids today have no experience of the media without ads. Like we had commercials, but imagine Mr. Rogers stopping his show every 5 mins to sell you athletic greens and test boosters.
This image has a totally different context today then when it was first created
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timetraveller@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I prefer the obvious product placement in old movies, tv shows. How funny it is to see product placement all over the place on the kitchen shelves of Seinfeld, the sugar cookie of Honey I Shrunk the Kids.
The list could go on.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Fucking weird, isn’t it? Another rant would be about where is all the advertising money coming from?! Imagining being a buyer, I’d have to wonder how well my spend would be profiting.
A couple of decades ago I played around with being a salesman. Top advice was to try this ad, try that ad, compare results. Surely these people are finding revenue from spending on these ads? It just seems impossible to me that there’s profit for all of these cockroaches.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 months ago
Actually for my kids at least it’s different. They’re so used to ad blocked YouTube and ad-free Netflix. That when the adblocker fails for whatever reason they get first delighted to see something new and very soon after annoyed at having to see that shit all the time and cry for someone to help them.
We watch regular TV so little. The other day we didn’t have internet for several hours, maybe a few days. That’s when we discovered that the TV is actually too far away to reach the cable of the satellite dish.
Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Or imagine the Flintstones advertising cigarettes to kids in the middle of the show.
Or comedy shows named after the sponsoring toothpaste company with sponsor breaks throughout.
Sure it’s gotten really bad lately, but mass media has always been rife with obnoxious advertising, both in-your-face and subliminal. The early days of Netflix streaming were really the anomaly as far as access to non-pirated ad-free media. The broadcast TV generation had their coping mechanisms with the mute button and eventually DVRs, but “media without ads” has basically never been a thing.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 3 months ago
Some time ago i found a old VHS of karate kid that i recorded. That was on free open tv and the commercials were super short. And i think two for the whole movie. I downloaded some trash tv like 60 day fiancee, and it was accidentally an episode where they left the commercials in. That was the most insane shit i have ever seen. They streched a 45min show into a 1 1/2 hour show. With the same pharma commercials over and over all the goddamn time and then the recap after every commercial. This shit has to rot your brain in some capacity.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I’ve had the same thoughts about people who watch free to air TV. Between the same set of ads every ad break, and the frankly dubious quality of the programming, it has to be contributing to some type of cognitive decline.
AA5B@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The worst are reality show “result” episodes. Seriously, you’re doing a two hour special with extra ads, all about recaps, when the only goal is to announce who won last week?
kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
I have Prime too for shopping mainly. I also can’t use Prime Video because it refuses to go beyond 480p on Firefox for Linux (Atleast last time I tried).
gdbjr@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Cable tv wasn’t invented to have zero ads . The original selling point of cable tv was to provide broadcast tv to those that couldn’t pick up OTA broadcasts.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I feel like you weren’t there, in that time and place. Or maybe you were in some weird pocket where OTA wasn’t available? Can’t remember anyone bitching about lack of antennae service. Yeah, it could be sketchy, but I think most of us could drag in ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS.
Auli@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
What. Cable has only been available in cities and you could get the OTA Chanel’s.