2y ago

Amazon to Run Ads in Prime Video Shows and Movies

www.wsj.com

Oh boy, more enshittification

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This is a disturbing trend. Apparently a lot of these major streaming services are discovering that they can make more from ads than people paying for the service. At least when calculated with the subscriber counts they currently have. It seems they don't anticipate people leaving their services over this.
Personally there is no way I would ever pay for a service that has ads. I'm not going to pay for a service even if its paid service doesn't have ads if it has a free or cheaper service with ads as that would just be rewarding them for implementing ads.
For example with Amazon's plan here. If you pay this $3.00 to remove ads then you are paying Amazon $3.00 because they added ads. This only increases the amount of ads that will be added to things.
- It’s so frustrating. I pay for YT Premium bc that’s probably what I watch the most of…on my main TV in the living room.
  The “sponsored” videos have the content creator do multiple commercial spots in their own videos and it’s so annoying. I don’t mind if they advertise their own stuff, like merch, but it’s everything from cereal to VPN’s to mental health apps. Irritating af.
  
  Newpipe + Sponsorblock.
  
  Thanks! Will it work on AppleTV?
  
  I, too, would like to know this
  (spoiler alert: nothings gonna work:( )
  
  I'm not sure about this (I use NP on an Android phone) but the clever folks on the Divided by Zero instance on Lemmy should be able to get you sorted.
- For example with Amazon’s plan here. If you pay this $3.00 to remove ads then you are paying Amazon $3.00 because they added ads.
  That's just a stealth price increase that they can implement without admitting they're raising prices.
  
  I think it is a little different. They might even want you to not pay for it if you are a prolific user of Prime Videos.
  
  It's exactly this. Netflix makes more money from the average basic+ads user than they do from someone on the standard plan. It's incremental revenue from all users that even occasionally use the service, and invisible to those that pay for Prime but don't care about Prime Video.
  If you pay directly for Prime Video only, it's a little different.
- Personally there is no way I would ever pay for a service that has ads.
  Somehow we got used to it when it comes to sports events, a long time ago.
  But yeah, I get you, and fully agree. Seeing no ads is like the major selling point.
- Apparently a lot of these major streaming services are discovering that they can make more from ads than people paying for the service.
  Nah. They're discovering they can make people pay and shove ads in their face.
  Which is worse.

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