| ▲ | m463 8 hours ago |
| this just reminds me of... - watching "normal" cable tv - listening to "normal" fm radio - shopping on amazon (sponsored... everything) |
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| ▲ | MBCook 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| This is why I pay to get rid of ads in things I like. Podcasts and TV are the big ones. I just started watching season 2 of Jury Duty on Amazon. I had deleted the app when they announced that as a paying subscriber I would be getting ads. Oh my God the ads are so horrible. So much worse than I remember. Also, extra kudos to Amazon for nearly doubling the price of removing the ads the week before the show came out. How nice of them. |
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| ▲ | al_borland 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > I had deleted the app when they announced that as a paying subscriber I would be getting ads. I completely cancelled Prime when they sent that email. To hit me with a monthly charge when I’m already paying a yearly fee just felt so cheap. I was already pretty unhappy with the direction Amazon had been heading; that email was the straw that broke the camel’s back. My Amazon purchase volume dropped by 60% the following year, and another 10% the year after that. My goal is to get it down to 0, or at least in the single-digits of yearly orders. | |
| ▲ | shellwizard 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Arr matey | | |
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| ▲ | add-sub-mul-div 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| A difference between cable and streaming is that cable has DVRs that let you skip commercials if you want, while streaming tech introduced unskippable ads. |
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| ▲ | vel0city 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | > cable has DVRs that let you skip commercials if you want The last time I had DirecTV several channels had managed to have unskippable ads in recordings. Paramount was egregious with this and was the first channel I saw with this "feature" enabled. | | |
| ▲ | add-sub-mul-div 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I've never seen that. That's terrible. The people who put up with streaming enshittification are ruining it for the rest of us by normalizing it. | | |
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