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Amazon To Start Running Ads In Prime Video Series and Movies, Will Launch Ad-Free Tier For Extra Fee

deadline.com Amazon To Start Running Ads In Prime Video Series & Movies, Will Launch Ad-Free Tier For Extra Fee

Ads are coming to Prime Video’s entertainment content. Commercials in movies and series will be introduced in the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Canada in early 2024, followed by France, Italy, Spa…

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deadline.com /2023/09/amazon-ads-prime-video-series-movies-ad-free-tier-1235552984/

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So the thing prime users are already paying for and already have pay walls to certian content is going to get more monetised?
Colour me shocked.
- They are the worst streaming service. They looked at cable TV and said "this is perfect" while being apparently oblivious that most people who pay for streaming services HATE cable TV.
  The only thing that made Prime worth it was shipping, but then Amazon decided they wanted to own the whole shipping process and stopped using reliable shippers and brought it all in house and now its a dice roll if you are going to get your package or if its going to be lost, and half the time its damaged.
  I order anywhere else now and canceled prime.
  
  I have prime for 70% shipping, 25% automatic photo/video uploads, and 5% video streaming.
  I think the only amazon things I’ve watched are The Boys and Swarm. Both good but not worth a subscription. I also have other ways to get these shows if needed.
  
  I'm going to cancel mine too Walmart and target have faster shipping, better products, and physical stores you can return shit at.
  Suddenly Amazon wishing they invested in brick and mortar.
  
  It's disappointing but I think prime has the most entertaining original content of all the streaming apps at the moment.

So first the two day shipping became priority shipping.
Now the limited included movies and tv shows are getting ads.
All while the price of Prime goes up every year.
Tell me again how Prime is worth it?
- at the cost of destroying the global economy, it was never worth it
- I quit prime after the last prime day and have saved so much money. It's really something how much influence that subscription had on me, and how cancelling it changed my buying habits.
  
  It's crazy isn't it? I canceled mine probably around the same time. Now I actually shop around online and either find a better deal or buy straight from the manufacturer for the same price (meaning they end up with more money since Amazon doesn't get a cut). Amazon is now my LAST resort instead of the first place I land.
- The unlimited full resolution photo storage is what keeps me subscribed. Everything else is just extra.
  The Prime shipping I don't really care about; it's easy enough to just wait until the cart hits the free shipping spend. Prime streaming was fine, previously. We like a few of their shows, but it's just as convenient to pirate then now that they're adding ads.
  Is there a better option for cheap off-site unlimited photo storage?

Enshitification

Yet another example of people who pay for the content getting shafted while pirates are better off.
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- Yeah, been thinking about canceling my Prime membership for a while now. Thanks for the tipping point Amazon!
  
  Same.
  First they increase prices for content I don’t watch - Live and Sports. Next, I found out they don’t allow Amazon Whole Foods employees to wear BLM masks if they want, and now increasing prices again to avoid ads.
  Meanwhile, I was able to get a Walmart+ membership (on sale) for $50/year, and their prices are very competitive with Amazon, which comes with Free shipping and Paramount+ subscription, as well as other perks.
  It was a no-brainer.
- Hey hey hey HDDs aren't recently free!
  
  I know you're probably joking but I recently picked up a 4TB WD Red Plus for $70... the drive isn't perfect but that price blew my mind, great for storing simple media.

I will cancel. Obviously not everyone will but I was always on the piracy grind until it was easier not to be. I'll be happy to to back to it. Fuck these cunts who up prices every few months and then don't pay the creatives.
- I just spun up three lxc's on my proxmox server and they all end in arr
  
  Out of curiosity, why have you decided to run each service in a separate lxc rather than just one lxc?
  I am about to completely overhaul my set up and I'm not sure which way is best.

Streaming companies seen to think we've forgotten how to torrent and built a media box...
- We are the minority though. 99% of people will happily drop their pants and bend over just to not lose their streaming services. Look at Netflix and their ad tier and cutting of sharing.
- It's even easier than that, now. For like $20/6 months, you can get a debrid service account that will host everything (that's not obscure) for you. Hook it up to an app like Stremio and you basically have Netflix for all media. It even has panels for show/film discovery, sorted by genre categories.
  The only big difference is that you select the quality of stream you want each time you start playing something.
  I was going to set up my own system, but a debrid service is cheaper than buying the hard drives and a lot easier to set up.
- Got any links to help me learn about building media boxes?
  
  Basic PC running Plex server and an Android TV box at the TV. Simple as.
- The average user is a complacent meat bag ready to take whatever corporations want to shove down their throats. So for anyone capable I highly recommend torrenting absolutely every piece of media you consume, and simply buying a physical disk if you want to support said media. If the media doesn't have a physical way to buy it fuck them, just steal it
  
  I recently realised that my internet uplink is fast enough to stream 1080 to 3 family members, aka meat bags, and opened up my Plex server to them.

Take my money or my time never both

Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of Brass Monkey...

As far as I’m concerned, the presence of commercial “breaks” makes a movie unwatchable. A good writer, director, or editor carefully manages things like pace, timing, and emotional impact. Interrupting that with an ad for car insurance completely destroys the mood, and cheapens the entire experience. I don’t care if commercials are “limited”. They shouldn’t be there at all.
I only tolerate commercials if I’ve already seen a movie a million times, and I’m only half paying attention anyway.
- I remember back in the day, they at least inserted the commercials by hand and usually put them in during a scene transition or something to not fuck up the pace.
  The Internet and streaming services are fucking lazy and just insert ads every X seconds or whatever, which can often lead to an ad being played mid fucking sentence. It's so much worse than watching a movie on public access cable with ads and censorship. At least those ads are carefully edited in, and not thrown about willy-nilly. And the censorship can be just as funny (this is what happens when you find a stranger in the alps, Larry!).
  
  The Internet and streaming services are fucking lazy and just insert ads every X seconds or whatever, which can often lead to an ad being played mid fucking sentence.
  That is not laziness. This is a typical dark pattern, designed that way on purpose to annoy you into paying.
  Youtube (without ad blockers) is the absolute worst at this, as it seems to insert mid roll ads specifically to disrupt the video.

Wow, the studios must really be serious about adding income streams so they can pay residuals to the actors and writers.
- Ha! If you think that any of that money will go to actors and writers, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
  
  Once a deal is struck, it will. It's the only income stream the studios would ever be willing to use to pay residuals.
  Where else are you thinking residual money will come from? On broadcast and cable, it has always come from ad revenue.

Scamazon.

Enshittification intensifies

So I canceled Netflix over Cuties, and prematurely canceling shows. I canceled Hulu for rising prices and ads. I stopped paying Max because of their inability to keep their own shows on their own platform. Now it looks like I'll be canceling Prime. I don't order that many things online these days.
I buy maybe one TV show and three movies a year. Much cheaper than these "services". Also, no ads, and they aren't disappearing. They stay right where I left them and I can watch them any time I want. I like reading, maybe I'll do more of that, or complete my backlog of games I haven't finished.
All that being said, my wife started paying for all of the above services because they each "have something" she likes to watch. She also subscribes to Acorn, Peacock, Paramount+, Disney+....I guess she can part ways with her money on this bs. I am done.
- I might just go back to blu-ray at this point. HBO still has my money because they generally seem to give a shit about quality at least.
  
  Do it, no one can take them away from you at that point. They're usually the highest quality, and you can rip them and stream them yourself. I'm not into... alternatives... anymore, but I do buy blu rays and 4ks whenever I can

I saw these last two price increases coming when they dropped a billion dollars on the Lord of the Rings show and then again when the show got mediocre reviews and low viewing numbers.
When my student discount for Prime is over I'm canceling. This is the last straw.

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