[HN Gopher] Amazon Prime Video starts showing ads in January unl...
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       Amazon Prime Video starts showing ads in January unless you pay
       $2.99/month xtra
        
       Author : qainsights
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2023-12-26 22:04 UTC (57 minutes ago)
        
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       | qainsights wrote:
       | Starting from January 29, 2024, Amazon Prime Video will begin
       | showing ads alongside content unless customers pay an additional
       | fee of $2.99 per month. This change is aimed at allowing Amazon
       | to continue investing in compelling content and increasing its
       | investment over a long period of time. Customers can avoid ads by
       | paying the additional fee on top of their monthly or yearly
       | Amazon Prime subscription.
        
       | figassis wrote:
       | I feel piracy today is pretty morally excused.
        
       | andy99 wrote:
       | Amazon prime became worthless to me around 2018. I'm surprised
       | anyone still gets value out of it. For those that do, maybe this
       | isn't a big deal. I care much more about how bad and confusing
       | their selection is, dodgy marketplace sellers, and almost
       | everything cheap being not eligible for prime than I do about
       | this.
       | 
       | Amazon of the "prime" example of a new-er tech company that
       | bought their way into a monopoly and they used it to gouge people
       | while providing bad service. Uber being the other obvious one.
        
         | dudul wrote:
         | My XP has been very different. I rarely find an item I want to
         | buy that is not covered by prime.
         | 
         | As for video specifically, I mostly watch older shows from the
         | 80s and 90s. Do they have everything I'd like to watch? No, but
         | there is enough to watch an episode a few times a week.
         | 
         | However, I won't pay this additional fee and I'll cancel after
         | they show me the 1st ad.
        
       | NickC25 wrote:
       | Dumb. You pay for Prime. You pay extra for Prime Video. You now
       | pay even more extra for Prime Video to not show you ads.
       | 
       | This is a company worth $1.5 trillion dollars (with a founder
       | worth $175 billion dollars)....yet they can't help themselves but
       | triple-dip? Yeah, no.
       | 
       | Arr, matey, I hear the high seas calling.
        
       | keikobadthebad wrote:
       | I got Dark Patterned into prime a few years ago. I was a low
       | volume purchaser anyway and only used prime video for a handful
       | of shows, I never used the music service since access to it was
       | just another flagrant lock-in. I left Prime in Aug.
       | 
       | I was surprised with the things I bought since then, despite the
       | quoted delivery being wose, they all actually arrived next day
       | anyway. And I did not miss prime video at all.
       | 
       | Since I'm not paying to make my eyeballs available you're not
       | even going to make the ad money off me. The ads are just
       | punishing the people still giving them money for prime.
        
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