Oh boy, more enshittification
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This is a disturbing trend. Apparently a lot of these major streaming services are discovering that they can make more from ads than people paying for the service. At least when calculated with the subscriber counts they currently have. It seems they don’t anticipate people leaving their services over this.
Personally there is no way I would ever pay for a service that has ads. I’m not going to pay for a service even if its paid service doesn’t have ads if it has a free or cheaper service with ads as that would just be rewarding them for implementing ads.
For example with Amazon’s plan here. If you pay this $3.00 to remove ads then you are paying Amazon $3.00 because they added ads. This only increases the amount of ads that will be added to things.
For example with Amazon’s plan here. If you pay this $3.00 to remove ads then you are paying Amazon $3.00 because they added ads.
That’s just a stealth price increase that they can implement without admitting they’re raising prices.
I think it is a little different. They might even want you to not pay for it if you are a prolific user of Prime Videos.
It’s exactly this. Netflix makes more money from the average basic+ads user than they do from someone on the standard plan. It’s incremental revenue from all users that even occasionally use the service, and invisible to those that pay for Prime but don’t care about Prime Video.
If you pay directly for Prime Video only, it’s a little different.
Personally there is no way I would ever pay for a service that has ads.
Somehow we got used to it when it comes to sports events, a long time ago.
But yeah, I get you, and fully agree. Seeing no ads is like the major selling point.
Apparently a lot of these major streaming services are discovering that they can make more from ads than people paying for the service.
Nah. They’re discovering they can make people pay and shove ads in their face.
Which is worse.
“Must… make… exponential… profit… Line must go up!”
Ads EVERYWHERE! It’s time for us to make ad-less web rebellion.
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I would pay for Amazon Prime if they offered purely a free 2-day shipping only version, but I refuse to pay for Prime if it supports the media companies, so I don’t pay for Prime. I have zero interest in DRM-filled “you will own nothing and be happy” streaming bullshit, and I have negative interest in the same thing with ads. Enshittification at its finest.
Time to cancel Prime. Removing perks. Increasing prices. Saturating us with ads.
Too much money is never enough! We need to monetize monetization! Assholes.
Imagine if any of these rich assholes were actually good guys?
Amazon Prime shows begin to be pirated by Amazon Prime Subscribers, until the end of the billing ear when they are no longer Prime Subscribers.
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Nope, fuck this. Been thinking about canceling Prime for a while now, they just keep raising the price while at the same time all their services get worse year after year.
Streaming was nice while it lasted but these companies have survived looking enough too become the villains they sought to replace. Sad but fuck them and hoist the sails I say.
Enshittification has just gotten started.
I’ve been on the fence with prime for a while, this will be the end
I get my prime half off.
The added cost is less than the difference so I’d still be paying less than a regular prime membership.
And even still, I’m canceling the second I get an ad.
Fuck your monetization.
Guys. This is literally just a price increase for prime video. It sucks, but it is not the same as “prime getting ads”. Not saying it’s worth keeping, but you are yelling like your only option is to watch ads or cancel
