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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 to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 54 points 2 years ago (4 children)

streaming has absolutely no future. if they keep pulling shit like this it's going to decline even faster. i suppose it's more about sucking off advertisers than it is pleasing customers, too....if you're going to fail anyway why can't you at least make a positive difference in the world?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Are their profits going down?

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It will be like the Netflix exodus, the reddit exodus, etc. They'll make more money. The best you can do is be true to yourself and not participate if you don't want to.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sadly, this. Average consumer, and I don’t mean it as an insult, will not look for an alternative to streaming. All these giant streaming companies are gauging how far they can go to increase the profit margins.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    I'm a technically savvy average consumer. I've just been accepting the enshitification. It feels like every month a different company is raising prices.

    I'm about ready to put on an eye patch and fly the Jolly Roger at this point.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    My prediction is that it all goes back to Netflix when they decide it’s not worth the time and expense to run their own services. They had a nice passive income thing going on there for many years and can have it again if they just license their IP again.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    streaming has absolutely no future.

    Streaming isn't going anywhere, and if anything will likely continue to grow for as cable dies off. It's just going to consolidate and get shittier (ads) as basically things move back to a model more cable-like. Piracy will probably ramp back to like levels for music in the early 2000's, but it will remain a niche. Amazon specifically will see blowback for this, but it's unlikely to move many off of Prime since it's sort of a tertiary benefit to having a Prime membership, and even if it's all you got for your Prime membership, it's still one of the cheapest streaming services.

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