▲ 1159 ▼ Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free (www.theverge.com) submitted 2 years ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 289 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] kromem@lemmy.world 92 points 2 years ago (1 child) I'm getting really tired of all this enshitification. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago (2 children) Now corporations start with that bulshit of "oh, that model wasn't sustainable actually" even though it worked perfectly fine for the last decade and they still get record profits year after year. They keep ripping everything from under us, this gotta stop. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] TipRing@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 child) It's not enough to make money, they have to make all the money. They have a requirement for perpetual growth. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago Yes, which is impossible in a world with finite resources. Utter madness. Attempting to squeeze more money out of everything is only making the world worse. Everything is disposable, service-bound and overmonetized, and they keep pushing more and more ads and psychological trickery at us to try to sell it. permalink fedilink source parent [+] TipRing@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago (2 children) Now corporations start with that bulshit of "oh, that model wasn't sustainable actually" even though it worked perfectly fine for the last decade and they still get record profits year after year. They keep ripping everything from under us, this gotta stop. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] TipRing@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 child) It's not enough to make money, they have to make all the money. They have a requirement for perpetual growth. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago Yes, which is impossible in a world with finite resources. Utter madness. Attempting to squeeze more money out of everything is only making the world worse. Everything is disposable, service-bound and overmonetized, and they keep pushing more and more ads and psychological trickery at us to try to sell it. permalink fedilink source parent [+] TipRing@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 child) It's not enough to make money, they have to make all the money. They have a requirement for perpetual growth. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago Yes, which is impossible in a world with finite resources. Utter madness. Attempting to squeeze more money out of everything is only making the world worse. Everything is disposable, service-bound and overmonetized, and they keep pushing more and more ads and psychological trickery at us to try to sell it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago Yes, which is impossible in a world with finite resources. Utter madness. Attempting to squeeze more money out of everything is only making the world worse. Everything is disposable, service-bound and overmonetized, and they keep pushing more and more ads and psychological trickery at us to try to sell it. permalink fedilink source parent