How do people think paying for a service and still being served ads is acceptable?
Amazon to introduce ads on Prime Video in 2024
Submitted 1 year ago by airdi@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.breakingthenews.net/news/details/60685711
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Carter@feddit.uk 1 year ago
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hulu has a lower price tear that includes ads. It makes it more affordable for some people. If they had started out with ads I would be less upset, but for a big company like Amazon it just seems like they’re trying to make even more money off of the consumer.
Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Hulu DID start out with ads. When they launched it was an entirely ad supported service. Hulu+ didn’t come until years later. After several years of running two tiers of service, free ad supported and paid ad free, they dropped the free tier. Now, years later, we’re back to ads with Hulu, but this time you pay for the privilege.
MinusPi@yiffit.net 1 year ago
People lived with it for years with cable.
Carobu@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Cable started out without ads too. That was why you paid for it.
dangblingus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Right, but the business model is totally different. You’re paying your cable provider for access, you’re not paying to watch the TV shows. The TV shows were financed by broadcaster advertising revenues among other streams of income. With Amazon, you’re paying for access and to fund their programs. Ads are just greedy and anti-consumer for a vertically integrated platform like Amazon Video.
obinice@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Cable wasn’t really a thing here in the UK, we’re not primed for their bullshit.
PlatinumSf@pawb.social 1 year ago
To be fair, Prime Video has always just been a free perk attached to prime (and with all the other ‘perks’ combined you could basically consider it free). For example I get an extra 3% back on all my Amazon orders by being a prime member. At the current cost of prime and just with the home supplies I order w/ subscribe and save, it pays for itself. That’s not to say I’m happy with this, but in actuality they’re fairly well positioned with the product to make this move and have most of the user base be merely disgruntled.
cooopsspace@infosec.pub 1 year ago
It’s literally a race to the bottom on streaming services before we eventually end up with cable in an app. Or rather multiple apps.
Fuck I hate this timeline.
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My ISP already offers a streaming package, you pay monthly for a package of streaming apps. It’s literally cable with extra steps
jballs@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Seriously, everything that was once good is now either fucked or planning to be fucked.
obinice@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Better not be advert breaks in the service I PAY FOR, or else I’m out.
I’m not paying anybody to serve me adverts. Ever.
Their application is already god awful, and their database is built incredibly poorly (what idiot decided that different seasons of one TV show should have entirely separate listings in the database, often making it hard to find?!).
AND, they’re constantly trying to shove extra paid stuff down my throat, like something called Paramount+, in the thing I’m already bloody paying for.
I’m already at the edge of my tether with these people for their crappy service. If they introduce advertisment breaks into a service I’m paying for? That would be a direct insult, and I don’t stand for that sort of thing.
2ncs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
their database is built incredibly poorly (what idiot decided that different seasons of one TV show should have entirely separate listings in the database, often making it hard to find?!).
Likely this is legacy from when you would buy each season as a DVD set
Kahlenar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Paramount Plus is the worst streaming service with the second best content
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I read somewhere that streaming content has to be filed with a weight and dimensions because their database only understands packages.
MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Slap Jeff with a glove
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 1 year ago
Finally, that’s what everyone has been eagerly waiting for …
Ryantific_theory@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, what we were always missing after fleeing cable, was the ads that really made each show worth it.
Why can’t we just have nice things?
Polar@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
People use prime video? I find that half the shit I click on, it tells me it’s not included with prime and I have to buy it…
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I hate this. Let me hide everything that isn’t included.
RecklessSpecs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Same, I’ve only watched one or two shows that have actually been included with Prime…don’t know if I’m just looking for the wrong shows/movies though
GuerillaGorillas@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wow, first they destroy Prime Music to push you to pay extra for Music Unlimited and now this? I have no idea what the value of Prime even is now unless you order online frequently, which is harder and harder to justify with all the shady and low quality sellers polluting the site.
Beryl@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The enshitification will continue until there isn’t any cent left to transfer to the shareholders.
prole@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Rent seeking. It’s called rent seeking. People keep calling it “enshitification” as if this is a new thing.
Nastybutler@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Rent seeking is just a part of enshitification
just_change_it@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Remember folks who are currently subscribed: They do not give prorated refunds for full year subs. When you cancel the service ends immediately. Setup calendar reminders or eat the sunk cost now because Amazon Prime is just a typical subscription entrapment scheme that will only get harder and harder to cancel, like a gym membership.
Texas_Hangover@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Is that new? When I cancelled last year a couple months into my year long subscription I got the money back for the unused months. No problem, easy too.
just_change_it@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s not new, it’s just asshole web design and misleading pages when you go to cancel. I went and cancelled a couple minutes ago.
firadin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s not accurate, they don’t stop your benefits when you hit the cancel button. I just cancelled today and have my benefits until the end of my yearly subscription in November.
just_change_it@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wow, you’re right. I just ended mine.
Their website has an asshole design. They make you click through two pages before telling you the truth.
Tischkante@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
This isn’t even really normal entshitification, they added videos and some music cheap Spotify knockoff to their fast delivery flat rate. Nobody asked them to.
Then they slowly raised the price, essentially locking everyone that just wanted free fast delivery into a video streaming service and kept increasing the price.
They did this to force existing subscribers into their “new” business idea of a video streaming service, when they couldn’t yet compete with the competition back then. Good news for them, their competitors are shit now.
Now they can include advertisements in it too and add more expensive advertisement free tiers. Essentially increasing the price again, but hiding it so people can’t ask for subscription fees back in Europe.
Do they really think most people have forgotten they just wanted a fast delivery flat rate? They will never offer their delivery flat rate without video and all that stuff again, only if a legislature would force them.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And increasingly I’m finding that they’re making me place a minimum order size to get the free shipping. You know - like shipping was without prime.
XTL@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Prime already has ads and they are obnoxious. They are their own ads. Is outside ads the new development or what? New tiers?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Lol that’s a nope from me, dawg. I’ll bail on that once I start seeing ads on a thing I pay for.
yoz@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Trillion dollar company doesn’t care. You’ll get ads and they will take your money. Like it or not.
Got_Bent@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve been planning on cancelling prime at the end of the year. This closes the decision making process for me.
I’ve been sticking to Pluto and Tubi lately. Yes, they have ads, but they are entirely free and have enough content to keep me entertained for the duration of my ever decreasing television watching habits.
(End of year because due to terms and conditions, there is no benefit to cancel early)
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I see prime as a freebie. I get it cause I have prime for my package deliveries
Got_Bent@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My experience with prime delivery in 2023 is that it has gone from two days to four days to two weeks to completely lost fuck you trying to get a refund.
Further, I stopped using eBay in the late 2000s because everything there became “fell off a truck in China” quality. This is what a vast percentage of Amazon product has become.
This is the crux desire to cancel.
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Same, I often forget that prime video exists, I pay for prime so my wife’s packages arrive quicker and I get a free twitch sub monthly
Pirate_lemmy_arrrrR@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I canceled last time they raised the price and started including football. The only thing prime is really good for is if you like making a bunch of little purchases frequently. I honestly don’t miss it at all. When I do buy something, you get free shipping on anything else you buy for the next 24 hours. That ends up covering the little stuff I might have forgotten on the original order and prime shipping was rarely 2 days anymore anyway, so what’s an extra day or two wait.
Nommer@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I just cancelled. Was thinking about doing it during the last price hike but never got around to it. Good thing they announced it now since it was going to renewed on the 15th of October.
Tacos_y_margaritas@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Be careful when you try to order stuff from Amazon without prime. They try to coerce you into getting prime about 4 times during the checkout process. It’s so scummy.
roi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
It already fucking has one!! And I have prime!! what the fuck
aeternum@kbin.social 1 year ago
yar har fiddle dee dee
UnknownQuantity@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Time to ditch Prime.
TBH, it was a long ago, but this is the last straw.
just_change_it@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Amazon Prime hasn’t been good for years. There’s no reason to pay for it.
If amazon was smart they would have not included their streaming service in their free shipping subscription but now it just feels like an expensive bloated product with minimal value.
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I used to think I ought to cancel.
I still do, but I used to, too.
uzay@infosec.pub 1 year ago
“We aim to provide a meaningfully worse experience than the sailors of the seven seas are getting,” Amazon insisted.
yuunikki@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Meanwhile, me, pirating like a chad
arcadefx1@lemmy.world 1 year ago
At the bottom of article…
Users will have the option to buy an ad-free subscription for an additional $2.99 per month, while the current prices will give them the version with ads.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Translation: Amazon is raising the price of Prime by $3/month.
kaitco@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So glad I cancelled Prime a few months ago. Turns out, I’m still getting free shipping even without it and I didn’t find Rings of Power worth pirating.
ViewSonik@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yep. And I hate Walmart too but their Walmart+ is actually WAY better than Amazon.
cmysmiaczxotoy@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I have had prime for a decade and never once watched their content on their platform. WEB-DL baby
echo64@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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ViewSonik@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Alternate Headline: “Amazon ruins Prime and forces their customers to cancel their Prime Memberships by putting advertisements into paid content”
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Oh awesome, great for users. I hope they increase the price of prime again with it!
Lexam@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
So ads, charging for shipping on many products, and costing $140 a year? Hmm.
kandoh@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Prime Video was my favourite =(
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Prime is still worth it to me for the free shipping, but I won’t be watching their video if I have to watch ads and I certainly won’t be paying extra for the privilege of not having to watch them.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I really hate the “free shipping” line. It’s not free, you are literally paying a monthly fee for it, even if you buy nothing. That is in no way “free”.
Are you really buying from Amazon more than twice a month? If yes, stop/wait and combine shipments. If not, cancel prime because even at their now-standard $6 shipping per order, you’d break even or save $6-$12.
I’ve taught my parents this, and they now see the idiocy in buying things the second they think of them, even if they won’t use it for weeks. A $4 item with $6 shipping is so incredibly stupid, but now that they wait until they “need” a few items, suddenly shipping is $0 because they reached the $35 tipping point. Even at the ‘discounted’ federal assistance price level of prime (I’m disabled), it made no sense.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That, and they claim you get “faster” shipping with Prime but in my area at least they always manage to fuck it up, so they wind up delivering every single order days or sometimes a week later than they originally promised. I therefore have no desire to pay them a bribe just to fuck up anyway; they stuff I order without Prime gets here in the same time frame 95% of the time. It’s literally worthless.
hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
For the first time I was contemplating cancelling my prime subscription,but now I believe the contemplation is over.
dangblingus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I keep forgetting that I have Amazon video.
It’s trash.
cybersandwich@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s one of my favorite streaming services. The Grand tour, Clarkson’s farm, the wheel of time, that lotr series, peripheral. They have a decent catalogue. Plus it’s “free” because I get prime for shipping.
Id probably ask my buddy for access to his Plex if they add ads. I already get annoyed that they show me stuff I’d have to pay extra for in the same screen as the prime content.
whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
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yo ho, a pirates life for me’ä
Jaysyn@kbin.social 1 year ago
Would help if they still made content worth pirating.
glimse@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I liked The Boys and Tales From The Loop. Couldn’t tell you anything else they made though
whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
fair point.
The Boys was good, but the Lord of the Rings series was horrible.
residentmarchant@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Kind of glad Marvelous Mrs. Maisel ended when it did, so I don’t need to see ads!