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[–] Mondez@lemdro.id 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pirated content of course has no advertising in it, so it makes sense to pay good money for a service that has adverts in it or how else am I going to learn about all those fabulous products I just have to buy?

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doubles Prime Video piracy per hour

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 28 points 1 day ago

Oi Ue, it's fooking diabolical mate. Omelander topped me wife and now more ads on the tele, diabolical.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'll be quitting after my wife finishes her series. I had noticed it is getting worse. Plus, unless I screwed up somehow, that $2.99 no-adverts charge appeared without any action on our part. We cancelled and went back to the cheaper version. It really bugs me that a company making money hand over fist finds it necessary to fuck their customers over unless they pay even more.

[–] insomniac@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Amazon seems to randomly start subscriptions. And then you think you’re crazy and did something stupid but I’m pretty sure they’re just evil. I have been subscribed to Audible multiple times and I have never listened to an audiobook in my life.

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[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

+100% ads --> -100% amazon purchases

[–] lukaro@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

I noticed paramount+ was included in a subscription service my wife has. I setup an account, loaded the app found a show to watch. Made it threw 3 episodes decided to pirate the show instead because the commercials were to annoying.

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago
[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

that's why I stopped watching prime video movies

[–] antisocialite@lemmy.today 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Gotta pay for all those crappy movies they make starring Dwayne Johnson.

[–] rodneyck@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

Dwayne Johnson playing the same character in all his movies. Acting range = 0.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's crazy how much money that cunt makes for the shittiest movies imaginable. Somehow people like that guy too.

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

He's made some genuinely good stuff though, Jumanji was far better than I ever expected.

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[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Nice I love it. We didn't stop ads years ago. Content creators deserve to be paid right guys. Right!!

Maybe the next Internet we can be more proactive. Whenever that is

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Still less than cable/broadcast which runs fifteen to twenty minutes of ads per hour. Given time, I’m sure streaming will catch up.

[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Just a matter of time until you can't chose what to watch on the lowest tier, you have to follow their playlist of what you should watch.

And we have come full circle back to broadcast TV

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Hoist the main sales, me maties!

[–] uberdroog@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I just today canceled Prime and their 27% credit card. I cant wait to hate on spaceballs 2.

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