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As if the Prime Video app couldn't get any worse.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Prime video could absolutely get worse, don't kid yourself.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Glad I dropped prime 1.5 years ago. I'll never pay monthly for something with ads. If I pay monthly for software, it better treat me like royalty.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Not surprised at all lol I am tempted to just start using Jellyfin and shop from sites that don't do this to their "premium" users.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I’ll stay subbed but I wont be seeing the ads, matey.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I unsubbed years ago.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The song has been sung...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Wait... I already now get annoying ads in the middle of watching a show. Now they want to add more ads to Prime Video? That's absolutely ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have prime. I torrent their content anyway as they don’t play nice with vpn.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (15 children)

Then why do you pay for it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Simp subs for twitch thots.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Adverts are inevitable, these companies cannot help themselves. The temptation to double dip... A subscription from stupid saps and money from advertising. Soon the ads will creep into the other subscription tiers.

Piracy and ad blocking is the only escape.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Spending all that time and money setting up my homeserver is looking better and better every day...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yep. Just ordered 4 12tb hdds for a zfs setup

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

I plan to recoup the cost in cancelled subscriptions.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm proud to say I pirated the fallout show

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

I have Prime and still pirated it, because the website and app are such a mess

[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Our research shows that we can fill up to 80% of the visual field with ads before we induce seizures!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Pioneering a technique to insert ads into the middle of your seizures so we don't have to worry about going over 80%

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

With the Amazon Alexa equipped with the GM-AL Vision System, we can time the ads between vision lapses and achieve nearly 95% ad prevalence in 91% of Prime subs.

With the Extended View VR headset equipped with new eye-opening visuals we are seeing 98% percent ad observation with only a 23% hospitalization rate for blindness and numbness of the zygomatic nerve.

Both the Amazon Alexa with GM-AL and Extended View headset will be available for $99.99 and $249.99, or $49.99 and $149.99 with a prime subscription, this next fiscal quarter.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

Just imagine. If you install Amazon video on an external streaming device and hook it up to a new Roku TV, you could get the pleasure of looking at multiple layers of Pause screen ads.

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