Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads to 6 Minutes Per Hour

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• melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I guess they need the money but it’s a shitty, sneaky way to get it.

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• crewman_princess@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• csh83669@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah. This was what finally got me to bite the bullet and cancel prime.now my impulse shopping is way down too, since I get to think “do I want to wait 4 days for this”? So win win in my book.

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• danhab99@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The companies might change but the bills stay the same…

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• barrbaric@hexbear.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hmm, do I pay for a service that has ads, or do I simply pirate-jammin? It is impossible to make this decision.

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• callouscomic@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cartoons were always 22 minutes. Like Spongebob or Simpsons. There was always 8 minutes of commercials per episode. That’s 16 minutes per hour.

  I dunno what argument I’m trying to make. I just remember this.

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  • Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Cable TV was originally paid for so that channels wouldn’t need to play ads to be profitable. We know how this ended.

    Steaming services were originally paid for so that they wouldn’t have to run ads to nlbe profitable. And we’re almost back to where cable TV is. Soon, all plans will have ads no matter how premium is a plan.

    Fuck that noise

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  • morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s the benchmark I guess. Let’s see how long it takes to get there.

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  • kalpol@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Plus 2 minutes of credits

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• NotAGamer@lemmy.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Boycott Amazon.

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• thefluffiest@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And the enshittification continues

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• brezel@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  streaming is a scam.

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• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve only ever used Prime whenever they offer it free or with a cheaper delivery than it costs.

  Last time it started showing ads, so I just pirated everything I wanted to watch. I won’t even use it for free anymore, lol.

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• critical@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So… have we come full circle on TV again?

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  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At least with TV, you could tape your shows and fast forward through the commercials.

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    • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Our TV company has that option built in. I can ‘tape’ shows and watch them later, shipping ads. This also works when the show is still playing.

      So I’ll wait half an hour, then watch my recorded show. I wouldn’t consider watching tv without that function.

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• themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d rather spend 10 minutes avoiding 4 minutes of advertising on a streaming service I pay for. Luckily, it doesn’t take nearly that long.

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