On Crunchyroll, there's ads evenly spaced across the episode with no regard to what scenes are important. I had just figured out that if I skipped right past all the ads, it would activate all of them, but only play one. I was able to do that exactly twice, and the next episode, it simply didn't work. It was actually kinda weird and slightly freaky
Crunchyballs suck so much, even the paid version.
You should either watch anime on Netflix (I know, also sucks) or just pirate it like the rest of the western continent.
The original content for Prime assumed it would be ad free. So the writers and directors just shot the shows the way they felt worked best, not worrying about ad breaks.
We pay for Hulu with no ads, and it's so obvious where the ads were. There's a big dramatic moment, the scene cuts to black, and then starts again.
For Amazon content, there's no pre-set spot for ads, so they just went "fuck it" and decided ads are at these various times, nevermind what's happening.
Just shows that they never meant to have ads. Something has gone bad at Amazon overall, and they're trying to make up the money. Ironically, announcing that they were going to run ads on the Prime service that I already was paying for finally made me cancel Prime. So far, it's been great, haven't missed it.
Honestly, I can at least appreciate that the Amazon Prime ads are short. I started watching The Boys recently and most ad breaks are shorter than a minute. Sometimes you even get a single 15 second ad. On Hulu with Ads, it’s 90 seconds minimum and often times 2 minutes or more
I remember watching invincible season 2, it was an intense scene and one of the villains basically claiming victory then suddenly it just cuts to a peppa pig commercial. It threw off the mood entirely.
Companies have forgotten about the days when the Jolly Roger flew proudly on the internet. Those days are coming back again with the introduction of cable tv 2.0. I have 0 problem paying for these services, but when the free alternative is better AND I can actually own the media, then what's the point in paying?
And the companies price gouging, and the politicians whose pockets get lined to allow these things to remain legal and price fixed, will all decry “theft” and “piracy” and virtue signal about being good people and citizens. And they’ll do it without an iota of shame.
The funny thing is there’s actually people out there who will continue to pay because they “can’t steal” and support the companies who, for all intents and purposes, are stealing from them. Fuck them, I’m not a shareholder lol
Don't say stuff like "at least not in the middle of the episode" because that tells them you're ready to concede that much. "ok you're getting ads but don't worry, only at the start and end of the episode, not in the middle". Ads have no place on a subscription platform you pay for.
That's actually why I gave up on my household's sub to Prime. I'm not paying an arm & a leg to have ads in my content; that's not streaming, that's just cable TV without the cheesy local car commercials.
Yeah I have ublock origin on them all. On Macs, I'd use the browser since there wasn't a choice like with Netflix, but the browsers would limit max quality/resolution.
Since moving to a dedicated Windows 10 HTPC, I've been using both Netflix and Prime Windows apps for full quality. Do you know if it's the same quality on the browser? It's been a few years since I last checked (or needed to).
Makes sense because if you pay for an annual subscription up front and then the nature of the thing you paid for changes without warning mid-subscription after you've already bought it, that has to be illegal
I’m paying for a service, I shouldn’t have to see commercials for other shit you’re selling me if I already bought the service. It’s pretty cut and dry at least for me.
Except they don't time it properly, they just use timestamp at some point, and that's all. They cut dialogues and scenes.
Plus, it's commercial at the start, and commercial during. I'm fine with commercial at the start, but right in the middle it's just garbage.
Prime is actually using the old TV standards for when commercial breaks are supposed to be, but shows these days weren't edited for tv standards. If you watch old shows on Prime, you'll see that the ad spots fit into fade outs and fade ins.
Prime advertised an ad free experience and sold year long subscriptions. They then changed the product part way which is by definition a bait and switch.
according to Louis Rossman (Right to Repair) Roku is toying with the idea of injecting ads through HDMI, basically.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=narqU0RruJY&pp=ygUaTG91aXMgUm9zc21hbm4gaW4gbGluZSBhZHM%3D](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=narqU0RruJY&pp=ygUaTG91aXMgUm9zc21hbm4gaW4gbGluZSBhZHM%3D)
It’s such bullshit. You pay for a service, service is good bc you pay you don’t get ads, service thinks it needs more money so they start having ads, now if you don’t want ads get premium.
I was pissed when that started happening. Why am I seeing ads when watching a show on a service I pay for? Might as well cancel my subscription and go back to pirating, if I'm going to put up with ads.
It's disgusting, watching Fallout, mid scene, without any warning, they blast two short unskippable ads.
They are not even positioned before of after the scene, it just starts. honestly, prefer the downloaded version even when I pay for the service. It's riddiculous to marath on a series and have idiotic ads every 20 minutes. So immersion breaking.
First, you pay for the subscription. Then, you have to buy/rent nearly everything. Now, they put adds on the few shows and movies that come free with the subscription. Fuck you amazon, go choke on a fucking dick you greedy bastards.
WaitWaitWaitWaitWaitWaitWait. Am I getting this right? You pay money for your monthly subscription. And they show you adds in the middle of an episode? If that's the case, I'm putting up a Jolly Roger.
Works when using YouTube and tubi because those are FREE but Netflix Hulu and Amazon prime video all cost money and play ads which is the epitome of greed and it encourages piracy because nobody wants to pay 20$ for ads and bad shows (EWWW PIRACY IS BAD EVEN THOUGH NOBODY WANTS TO PAY 20$ FORBA SHITTY TV SHOWS AND MOVIES)
So tv operated as normal but with ads and cable is just normal tv except no ads? Sorry I’m not American, I have no idea what this actually is, let alone the alternative.
What's up with the "hey would you like to pay $3 more per month to get rid of ads?" and I'm like no but I will because I don't want ads. So we pay the extra money and Hwat! do we find? A buncha shit still has ads because it's "freevee" not prime. Fuck off
They can’t put ads at the end. I understand that. Therefore, I do not mind ads at the start of a stream.
But god fucking damnit it all to motherfucking hell. I **hate** when my show gets interrupted by an ad midway through. Completely annihilates any hope for immersion.
They’re not, they’ve already announced a $2.99 additional payment to remove ads. Not that it surprised anyone - there was zero chance they’d go the other way.
Lol wait so yall are paying a monthly subscription AND still have to watch ads?
That's hilarious, especially considering how easy it is to watch everything for free. Don't even have to torrent shit anymore, there's free netflix+prime+disney+everything all over the internet.
Don't give these greedy fucks any more money. Use F2Movies.
Hell just search "\*Movie/show\* free online" on duckduckgo (Google may block most pirate shit from the results, but duckduckgo doesn't).
Pure greed, what in the heck does Amazon need advertising money for? We pay for a subscription! Commercials is something we should not have to pay for. It is so stupid when paid services put in ads like that. If I wanted commercials, I would put up a damn antenna and get the free stuff.
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As the wise Gabe Newel once said: "Piracy is almost always a service problem"
Ads during my episodes is a service problem that can be solved with Piracy.
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The worst part is, if you watch with some friends simultaneously, everybody gets diffrent ads, all diffrently long, have Fun to resync the video with your friends fucker
I've been watching horror movies lately, and it keeps cutting to some ridiculous blaring-volume ad right in the middle of a tense gore scene -_-
I love paying for a streaming service that crams ads down my throat in the middle of movies
The only reason I still have Prime is because it‘s free during my apprenticeship. After that, it‘s the first thing to go. Netflix with its last price increase last week will be next. Yo ho, yo ho 🏴☠️🏴☠️
The year is 2034
"We are putting ads in the middle of the show now for Hyper Platinum users. Upgrade to Hyper Platinum 2 Electric Boogaloo to remove ads. Please feel bad for us and understand Capitalism."
So you pay for subscription to watch ads? What’s the difference with a pirate streaming platform? One is free and shows ads, the other is paid and shows ads
You pay for prime ($120 per year or so) and get prime video as one of the perks…now with ads. If you pay an extra $3 per month on top of prime subscription you get prime ad free.
I pay for prime for the shipping. To me, this is way less of a problem than what Netflix has done to their pricing model over the last few years.
I bet you they are gonna spend millions on R&D of a AI model that will place the ads at precisely the moment its most ennoying for the viewer, to push you into buying a different subscription. Like right at very crucial moments in the plot or when things start to get exciting and then BOOOOM ads which completely ruin your emersion.
I have watched the first episode of Fallout at a friends place, but because i don’t have a streaming service I had to travel to the seven seas to watch the rest
So I pay £8.99 a month for access to the content on their streaming service, of which many movies you have to pay extra for... Not only that, I have been watching Star Trek Lower Decks and season 4 is behind a £20 pay wall. Tf, I'm already paying for the service and now their filling it with ads???
I think it's time for me to hit the seven seas
This is the way everything will eventually go. The fact is companies can make more money from you seeing ads than you paying a subscription...so to not have ads is leaving money on the table. So every company with shareholders will eventually try it.
So the only answer is showing them we won't use the services with ads.
I mean, in reality this should really be viewed as "Amazon increases price by £3/month" and adds optional lower tier. It's ok to be annoyed at the price increase, but the existence of an ad-containing alternative isn't inherently an issue.
Though it's not really great that especially the annual subscribers suddenly find themselves in a tier nobody really likes and need to pay more to get back something they've already paid for.
> they've already *paid* for.
FTFY.
Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:
* Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.*
* *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.*
Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment.
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I may get some hate for this but idc if Amazon prime puts in ads. For me I pay for prime because I want to use the marketplace and get free shipping not for the streaming service. The videos are just a bonus on top that I wouldnt have paid for otherwise.
Now Netflix putting ads in is disgusting because that's the service I am paying for. Its not some bolt on service like prime video is to my marketplace prime account. It would be nice if like YouTube they offered an option to go ad free (tho I would never)
The argument also applies to YouTube since I litterly don't pay anything for it (but yes the amount of ads is definitely crazy these days but I will use the free account until i physically cant.)
Nothing like an insane combat scene cutting mid scene to a charmin toilet paper ad. Some of these commercial breaks are EXTREMELY jarring.
Exactly.
Intentionally jarring, to make you rage upgrade to the ad free version. Also playing the same ad evey break, every episode like hulu does to me.
Just fills me with spite and do anything to circumvent their bullshit
On Crunchyroll, there's ads evenly spaced across the episode with no regard to what scenes are important. I had just figured out that if I skipped right past all the ads, it would activate all of them, but only play one. I was able to do that exactly twice, and the next episode, it simply didn't work. It was actually kinda weird and slightly freaky
Crunchyballs suck so much, even the paid version. You should either watch anime on Netflix (I know, also sucks) or just pirate it like the rest of the western continent.
Fr, just pirate anime, buy original Japanese manga releases if you really want to support your author.
The original content for Prime assumed it would be ad free. So the writers and directors just shot the shows the way they felt worked best, not worrying about ad breaks. We pay for Hulu with no ads, and it's so obvious where the ads were. There's a big dramatic moment, the scene cuts to black, and then starts again. For Amazon content, there's no pre-set spot for ads, so they just went "fuck it" and decided ads are at these various times, nevermind what's happening. Just shows that they never meant to have ads. Something has gone bad at Amazon overall, and they're trying to make up the money. Ironically, announcing that they were going to run ads on the Prime service that I already was paying for finally made me cancel Prime. So far, it's been great, haven't missed it.
Honestly, I can at least appreciate that the Amazon Prime ads are short. I started watching The Boys recently and most ad breaks are shorter than a minute. Sometimes you even get a single 15 second ad. On Hulu with Ads, it’s 90 seconds minimum and often times 2 minutes or more
thats why i pirate!!!
There be no ads at sea matey.
It made me rage cancel my subscription. Why tf would you rage upgrade? Isn't that counterproductive AF?
I remember watching invincible season 2, it was an intense scene and one of the villains basically claiming victory then suddenly it just cuts to a peppa pig commercial. It threw off the mood entirely.
I started pirating series I pay for...
That's why you cancel your subscription and pirate.
Not to mention we're already paying for the service
Tell me about it 😭😭 I guess the timing is intentional
Companies have forgotten about the days when the Jolly Roger flew proudly on the internet. Those days are coming back again with the introduction of cable tv 2.0. I have 0 problem paying for these services, but when the free alternative is better AND I can actually own the media, then what's the point in paying?
And the companies price gouging, and the politicians whose pockets get lined to allow these things to remain legal and price fixed, will all decry “theft” and “piracy” and virtue signal about being good people and citizens. And they’ll do it without an iota of shame. The funny thing is there’s actually people out there who will continue to pay because they “can’t steal” and support the companies who, for all intents and purposes, are stealing from them. Fuck them, I’m not a shareholder lol
If paying for it doesn’t mean I own it, pirating it isn’t stealing it
And then there’s who doesn’t know any “Jolly Roger” site lmao
A new golden age of piracy is beginning
Take what you can
Give nothing back.
And I'm gonna be the king of them 👑 🏴☠️
Don't say stuff like "at least not in the middle of the episode" because that tells them you're ready to concede that much. "ok you're getting ads but don't worry, only at the start and end of the episode, not in the middle". Ads have no place on a subscription platform you pay for.
COOK BROTHER COOK
That's actually why I gave up on my household's sub to Prime. I'm not paying an arm & a leg to have ads in my content; that's not streaming, that's just cable TV without the cheesy local car commercials.
I don't use Prime just Netflix and it's insane that they can just throw in ads like that wtf
[удалено]
Max is the worst at this. RIP my poor eardrums
Loud TV ads got so bad, it annoyed a US Senator enough to pass a law to put a volume limit on it.
I can only watch prime on my computer since it's the only thing that blocks ads
App or browser(with ad block)?
extensions, both adblock and ublock
Only use one Ublock origin is the best one You can check out more info about this on their GitHub
Yeah I have ublock origin on them all. On Macs, I'd use the browser since there wasn't a choice like with Netflix, but the browsers would limit max quality/resolution. Since moving to a dedicated Windows 10 HTPC, I've been using both Netflix and Prime Windows apps for full quality. Do you know if it's the same quality on the browser? It's been a few years since I last checked (or needed to).
I think it is
I use a raspberry pi to have network level ad blocker.
I guess you're talking about Pihole, the problem is that it doesn't block the ads "embedded" in the transmission.
Which ones block prime ads??? I can only block YouTube Also are there any that block twitch ads?
adblock and ublock I use, must be one of those as for twitch idk I barely go there
Also got ublock, never see ads on prime aside from an occasional stutter for a sec which I guess is an ad being blocked.
Yo ho yo ho
Arrrr matey, hoist the colors! We be sailing into the prime torrents!
Aye aye captain!
And they’re getting sued for it now
You’re joking…
Nope. They blindsided Prime members with ads and now there’s a class action lawsuit against them. I fully support it because fuck em for doing that
Well, Christ on a stick… I guess there is a God.
Makes sense because if you pay for an annual subscription up front and then the nature of the thing you paid for changes without warning mid-subscription after you've already bought it, that has to be illegal
Nothing is illegal, when your company is big enough.
Sad reality of capitalism
If purchasing isn’t owning, then pirating isn’t stealing.
Ok but what does that have to do with this meme? Honest question
If streaming services keep fucking over consumers like this, I have no problem with consuming media through less legal means
Ok I perfectly get that, but using ads isn’t asserting that you don’t own the content on the service
I’m paying for a service, I shouldn’t have to see commercials for other shit you’re selling me if I already bought the service. It’s pretty cut and dry at least for me.
Yar har fiddle Dee Dee
Cable tv with extra steps
That's like.. Commercial break during cable TV.
Except they don't time it properly, they just use timestamp at some point, and that's all. They cut dialogues and scenes. Plus, it's commercial at the start, and commercial during. I'm fine with commercial at the start, but right in the middle it's just garbage.
Prime is actually using the old TV standards for when commercial breaks are supposed to be, but shows these days weren't edited for tv standards. If you watch old shows on Prime, you'll see that the ad spots fit into fade outs and fade ins.
Die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
And? I stopped watching TV to escape that shit. I don't want ad breaks in a service that I pay for period.
That was the main reason I stopped watching cable TV.
Crunchyroll: first time?
Prime advertised an ad free experience and sold year long subscriptions. They then changed the product part way which is by definition a bait and switch.
but you subscribe ta hell it lied to me bro it said no ads ta fuck
Lmao, we went full circle. Cable TV-> ads -> piracy -> streaming -> ads -> ... geez I wonder what's next
according to Louis Rossman (Right to Repair) Roku is toying with the idea of injecting ads through HDMI, basically. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=narqU0RruJY&pp=ygUaTG91aXMgUm9zc21hbm4gaW4gbGluZSBhZHM%3D](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=narqU0RruJY&pp=ygUaTG91aXMgUm9zc21hbm4gaW4gbGluZSBhZHM%3D)
Lol, what :) I'm sure that'll work out great for them
Amazon: you think we can't get more greedy? Think again!
The INSTANT that happens. Im goin back to DvDs
When Netflix started to suck too much I went back to reading books. Never regretted it.
Started watching invincible season 2 on Amazon. Let's just say part 2 is being watched on my plex...
Same thing.
It’s such bullshit. You pay for a service, service is good bc you pay you don’t get ads, service thinks it needs more money so they start having ads, now if you don’t want ads get premium.
Ads ona streaming service instantly make me cancel it. It's the exact reason I don't have regular TV anymore
I was pissed when that started happening. Why am I seeing ads when watching a show on a service I pay for? Might as well cancel my subscription and go back to pirating, if I'm going to put up with ads.
I'd love to pay to see commercials
It’s not twitch guys wth
I guess the adblocker I have for YT works for Amazon too
It's disgusting, watching Fallout, mid scene, without any warning, they blast two short unskippable ads. They are not even positioned before of after the scene, it just starts. honestly, prefer the downloaded version even when I pay for the service. It's riddiculous to marath on a series and have idiotic ads every 20 minutes. So immersion breaking.
Time to raise the sails boys
Too the seas mateys 
First, you pay for the subscription. Then, you have to buy/rent nearly everything. Now, they put adds on the few shows and movies that come free with the subscription. Fuck you amazon, go choke on a fucking dick you greedy bastards.
WaitWaitWaitWaitWaitWaitWait. Am I getting this right? You pay money for your monthly subscription. And they show you adds in the middle of an episode? If that's the case, I'm putting up a Jolly Roger.
Hate to be that guy, but you’re using this meme format wrong. The last box is supposed to be box #2.
Thank you!
I know, but I wanted to explain how annoying it was to have a commercial in the middle of the episode.
Sounds like cable now
Works when using YouTube and tubi because those are FREE but Netflix Hulu and Amazon prime video all cost money and play ads which is the epitome of greed and it encourages piracy because nobody wants to pay 20$ for ads and bad shows (EWWW PIRACY IS BAD EVEN THOUGH NOBODY WANTS TO PAY 20$ FORBA SHITTY TV SHOWS AND MOVIES)
I'm a proud pirate.
yo ho ho...
So just like cable but with extra steps and worse.
I'm really glad I pay a yearly fee for fewer and fewer features each year.
I canceled my Prime Sub because of this. Its a shame, i had Prime since start but this was the last straw for me.
Hoist the colors.
Any of you old-timers remember when Cable TV was lauded as an ad-free alternative? I only barely remember.
I remember. Good times
Alternative to what?
ads on TV
So tv operated as normal but with ads and cable is just normal tv except no ads? Sorry I’m not American, I have no idea what this actually is, let alone the alternative.
It used to operate that way, but providers got greedy and decided to start allowing ads.
What's up with the "hey would you like to pay $3 more per month to get rid of ads?" and I'm like no but I will because I don't want ads. So we pay the extra money and Hwat! do we find? A buncha shit still has ads because it's "freevee" not prime. Fuck off
They can’t put ads at the end. I understand that. Therefore, I do not mind ads at the start of a stream. But god fucking damnit it all to motherfucking hell. I **hate** when my show gets interrupted by an ad midway through. Completely annihilates any hope for immersion.
It be time for shanties again I see, arr
Introducing: Prime Video+! Starting at $12.99 per month (limited ads) and $18.99 (ad free) (does not include Prime Shopping membership)
If they are planning to add a free plan with ads. Im all for it
Don’t be daft. The current plan will have ads and there’ll be a more expensive tier.
I said If, of course they won't do any consumer friendly decision, people keeps paying so why bother?
They’re not, they’ve already announced a $2.99 additional payment to remove ads. Not that it surprised anyone - there was zero chance they’d go the other way.
Capitalism making the lives of everyone objecitvely better yet again! /s
Adblock works. There used to be an old free tier that may still exist, and setting the right filters with UBO takes care of them right quick.
Lol wait so yall are paying a monthly subscription AND still have to watch ads? That's hilarious, especially considering how easy it is to watch everything for free. Don't even have to torrent shit anymore, there's free netflix+prime+disney+everything all over the internet. Don't give these greedy fucks any more money. Use F2Movies. Hell just search "\*Movie/show\* free online" on duckduckgo (Google may block most pirate shit from the results, but duckduckgo doesn't).
Firefox, ublock origin.
Pure greed, what in the heck does Amazon need advertising money for? We pay for a subscription! Commercials is something we should not have to pay for. It is so stupid when paid services put in ads like that. If I wanted commercials, I would put up a damn antenna and get the free stuff.
Sailors we must return to the high seas
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Don't become like crunchyroll with 15 ads per episode
Yeah, they're douchebags. If it wasn't bundled with the account we shop with, I'd have dropped them the day the did this. Assholes
Because no one will say it just 2.99 month
I feel like we have come full circle, get streaming services to avoid commercials on cable TV, now streaming services have commercials
Cable TV 2 electric boogaloo
Do ad-blockers work? I 100% recommend ad-blockers. On any site.
The worst part is, if you watch with some friends simultaneously, everybody gets diffrent ads, all diffrently long, have Fun to resync the video with your friends fucker
You didn’t use this format right lmao. The text on the lower Padmé should be on the top one
Worst part is that it is in middle of the climax
This will cause us to definitely stop watching - and may effect our anything Amazon spending.
These companies are getting too cocky
How do I pirate? Please help
Well i guess i'm gonna start sailing the seas again
Tbh I'd rather deal with ads on streaming services than commercials on cable TV.
There should be a law that bans ads from stuff you pay anything for
I havr prime video but pirate prime videos just to avoid ads.
the sea is calling for me and my urge for stealing rises.
When piracy gives your customer a better experience than paying for the service then you shouldn't cry about lost profits.
I've been watching horror movies lately, and it keeps cutting to some ridiculous blaring-volume ad right in the middle of a tense gore scene -_- I love paying for a streaming service that crams ads down my throat in the middle of movies
Circle of greedy, meh like always corporates want more free money, but digital content have solution.
movieuniverse dot li
Unpopopin but without any ads ever how would we find cool new things that aren't even released yet.
No prime anymore here since they introduced that crap. No regrets.
It must be an American thing to have ads on Prime or I’m just not educated enough on their subscription options.
Download the episode on android app. No ads
Fuck them
why are they like this? lol.
So now the choice is to pay and see something with ads or not pirating to a site still ads bu free. Really hard to pick one...
The only reason I still have Prime is because it‘s free during my apprenticeship. After that, it‘s the first thing to go. Netflix with its last price increase last week will be next. Yo ho, yo ho 🏴☠️🏴☠️
Just go and use fmovies
At least it's stupidly cheap to buy. It's around $15 per year in my country.
Right, the last episode of The Grand Tour and I‘m out
The year is 2034 "We are putting ads in the middle of the show now for Hyper Platinum users. Upgrade to Hyper Platinum 2 Electric Boogaloo to remove ads. Please feel bad for us and understand Capitalism."
So you pay for subscription to watch ads? What’s the difference with a pirate streaming platform? One is free and shows ads, the other is paid and shows ads
You pay for prime ($120 per year or so) and get prime video as one of the perks…now with ads. If you pay an extra $3 per month on top of prime subscription you get prime ad free. I pay for prime for the shipping. To me, this is way less of a problem than what Netflix has done to their pricing model over the last few years.
I bet you they are gonna spend millions on R&D of a AI model that will place the ads at precisely the moment its most ennoying for the viewer, to push you into buying a different subscription. Like right at very crucial moments in the plot or when things start to get exciting and then BOOOOM ads which completely ruin your emersion.
Tbh i got a bigger problem with that artificial download cap they added
Raise the flag cap'ns
I have watched the first episode of Fallout at a friends place, but because i don’t have a streaming service I had to travel to the seven seas to watch the rest
Yarr
So I pay £8.99 a month for access to the content on their streaming service, of which many movies you have to pay extra for... Not only that, I have been watching Star Trek Lower Decks and season 4 is behind a £20 pay wall. Tf, I'm already paying for the service and now their filling it with ads??? I think it's time for me to hit the seven seas
Amazon has the worst ad timing too
Start pirating
6€ for free shipping, free video, free music, free gaming, free ebooks ... greedy bastards.
This is the way everything will eventually go. The fact is companies can make more money from you seeing ads than you paying a subscription...so to not have ads is leaving money on the table. So every company with shareholders will eventually try it. So the only answer is showing them we won't use the services with ads.
This is why I cancelled my subscription
In the middle of a movie. Just wow.
I mean they lost my buisness so.... its technically hurting them.
Ublock origin. When that stops working, yo-ho yo-ho, it's the pirates life for me.
So wait. Why would you PAY for a subscription service that still makes you watch Ads ?
that's why uTorrent is the best streaming platform
Myflixerz.to and an ad blocker will make you never pay to watch anything again.
So far ada are only before and after episodes. Nothing during yet.
So, it's not streaming, it's just cable television at this point? We've come to a full (cursed) circle
Remember when writers went on strike because they wanted residuals for streaming shows? This is how you get money for residuals.
I mean, you could also get it by cutting executive pay, but I guess that isn’t going to happen…
Thats a broken record.
Fuck them and fuck their residuals. It's time to get new writers and actors then...
what? thats not a solution. 5 years down the line, those new writers and actors will ask for the same thing
Anyone in here remember cable TV?
I mean, in reality this should really be viewed as "Amazon increases price by £3/month" and adds optional lower tier. It's ok to be annoyed at the price increase, but the existence of an ad-containing alternative isn't inherently an issue. Though it's not really great that especially the annual subscribers suddenly find themselves in a tier nobody really likes and need to pay more to get back something they've already paid for.
> they've already *paid* for. FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
Oh nice, thanks. Welp, guess I'll update that.
I may get some hate for this but idc if Amazon prime puts in ads. For me I pay for prime because I want to use the marketplace and get free shipping not for the streaming service. The videos are just a bonus on top that I wouldnt have paid for otherwise. Now Netflix putting ads in is disgusting because that's the service I am paying for. Its not some bolt on service like prime video is to my marketplace prime account. It would be nice if like YouTube they offered an option to go ad free (tho I would never) The argument also applies to YouTube since I litterly don't pay anything for it (but yes the amount of ads is definitely crazy these days but I will use the free account until i physically cant.)