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Amazon Prime Video starts showing ads in January unless you pay $2.99/month xtra (9to5google.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Fucking vultures. Although it is free with prime so I kinda get it. But still, Netflix and Disney. Fuckers.

If there's ads on prime I'll just stop watching prime and pirate those shows.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Ugh, no it's not free. Amazon definitely charges for the cost of Prime Video even when they say it's "free" with Prime shipping. I wish I could opt out of Prime Video, but Amazon insists on artificially pumping up the cost of their services.

What we really need is strong antitrust law enforcement to break up these completely unrelated services that Amazon provides into businesses that can directly compete on cost and quality.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Haha you just reminded me I could just do that

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Too true. Depends how invasive the ads are. Pirating is fine but it takes a bit more preparation.