I’d seen rumours online but got the email this morning.
EDIT: seems like there won’t be ads for everyone straight away.
- Live events, such as sports, and content offered through Amazon Freevee will continue to include advertising. Customers in the Republic of Ireland, Channel Islands, and Isle of Man won’t see ads in their experience at this time.
My Prime subscription renewed in Dec. I didn’t know about the ads arriving. So yesterday I went through support and cancelled my subscription and they agreed to refund what I paid.
If they want to change the membership terms on renewals it’s their right to do so, but changing the terms of an annual subscription after I purchased it is unethical to me.
Unethical to you, but profitable to them.
being unethical is profitable, my good sir.
And I just cancelled. Fuck them. This is 1990’s pay TV repeating itself. I’m not playing that part of history again.
You don’t actually have to pay Amazon anything. I suggest you consider this.
Yeah we cancelled last month
Exactly.
I canceled my sub when I got the email. I’m going to pirate anything I want to see from them from now on.
Consider: Pirate everything. It’s just a race to the bottom. The average you can charge for an ad tiered service will just continue shifting up as each streaming service gently increases their ad-free prices. If it was ~$15/mo avg before this, now Netflix sees the avg price go to $15.57/mo. If you’re going to increase the price by 57¢ you might as well make it a nice round $1…Then Hulu sees the average go to $16.13 so then they need to increase their prices. So on and so forth until we’re back to paying $60/mo like we did for cable TV.
And here’s the kicker. They’re legally obligated to do this because they could be sued by shareholders for not trying to make more money. And that’s without mentioning that they actually prefer people to watch the ads because they generate more revenue from sponsored advertising. Pirating is ethical and cool. Paying subscription fees to trillion dollar corporations is cringe.
pay the creators not the marketeers…
Profit margins are the concern of people who actually respect capitalism, which I do not.
Steal, motherfucking, everything.
This shit sucks so much, first they make a descent service at a fair price then make it worse and more expensive.
It’s hard to be a good company when you are owned by demons
I assume you meant decent. Prime has always been substandard. They are indeed a descent service gliding right down into the enshittification cesspool.
“Enshitification”
Pirate everything.
We must scream it from every rooftop!
And every mast!
I canceled my prime membership. Been switching where I purchase most things anyway so this was the last straw.
Already cancelled my prime account when this was announced months and months and months ago.
You’re already getting recurring subscription fees from me, so you’re getting paid even if I don’t use your services for any period of time. Stop fucking around and playing games, adding ads is double dipping. I’ll just stop the recurring transactions and find services elsewhere.
Not a shill or anything, but isn’t Prime Video thrown in for free? Here in Australia, we pay for Prime to get free next day shipping, and Prime Video is a free inclusion.Although I guess, now, it’s kinda all advertised as a group of services for the subscription fees, so I’m probably answering my own question here.
I’ll go have another coffee and wake up properly…
Edit: just checked - Prime Video is definitely listed as a membership benefit along with the shipping, so they’re absolutely moving the goal posts mid-game, especially for annual subscribers. Dick move, Amazon.
Have not seen that in the Netherlands but I’m still dropping it. Haven’t seen anything we enjoyed watching for months (and Prime delivery still takes a week in most cases).
Saw it today in Germany. Cancelled my sub. Ads is a line in the sand that won’t be crossed no matter what.
Agreed. No idea why you got downvoted; if I wanted ads I’d subscribe to cable and not a streamer who’s also using the ads to track me further.
“Line no go up, we get more money from you and advertisers, now line go up again”
We need to show you ads for your sake. It’s so that we can make more and better content for you, so that you and even more, stay subscribed, even though we also just raised subscription fees. It’s not because we want the money. It’s for your sake we’re doing this!
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Maybe they should ad a donate button or patron so that we can show our gratitude
Maybe they should ad a donate button
I see what you did there
I unsubscribed. I find myself using Amazon less and less for shipping anyways, so now I definitely don’t feel the need to stay subscribed for streaming either.
Yes, this was in the news everywhere. Prime video just gets 2.99 more expensive. And they add this new tier with ads at the old monthly price.
Jokes on them, we unsubscribed last month lol
Well guess what, I’ll retain my “access” to such content on Amazon, but if I’m arsed to watch one of their stupid shows I’ll do that elsewhere anyway.
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