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[–] [email protected] 104 points 2 months ago (6 children)

[When launched] Prime Video with ads was given a "very light ad load," providing subscribers “gentle entry into advertising that has exceeded customers expectations in terms of what the ad experience would be like." The executive pointed out that Prime Video with ads doesn't show commercials in the middle of content. That could change next year.

Planned enshittification a la boiling frogs.

[–] NineMileTower 31 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'll just pirate their shit. I'll pirate it so hard and I'll do it with both middle fingers in the air. But not literally, I would definitely need both hands to pirate their content.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

We still need one person with a membership to download and post it all. Maybe we should start a fund to support their ever increasing membership costs…

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

Pretty sure you can be a decent pirate with a hook for a hand buddy. Don’t let your dreams be dreams!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

If you train enough you can probably do it with your feet

[–] NOT_RICK 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So are executives born with an asshole where their mouth belongs or do they surgically put it on when you get the gig?

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 22 points 2 months ago

Humans, being deuterostomes, have an embryological stage where we are just anuses.

Some humans never develop past that.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Light my arse, from the start they've interrupted with adverts for their own crap making it barely tolerable. Even on the adfree tier.

Canceled and no intention of ever going back. Measuring your ad load by American standards doesn't work when your competition is netflix and iPlayer.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The executive pointed out that Prime Video with ads doesn't show commercials in the middle of content. That could change next year.

So regular TV is designed around the ads.

Cliff hangers before ads are done not only for the story, but to keep you there through the ad to get the outcome to the cliffhanger.

That partially went away with the no ad streaming.

Now that shitty behavior is going to come back.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now that shitty behavior is going to come back.

Of course not. Streaming sites are far too lazy for that. They'll just cram the commercial into the middle of the show with no regard for the story. It's the only way they'll be able to put ads in the middle of shows not made to have ads.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName 3 points 2 months ago

Ugh, you're right. Enshittify to the max!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's not even true, they interrupted episode 2 of Rings of Power for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

What did they interrupt the episode for? Because a number of companies have adopted the policy that, if the interruption is promoting something else offered by the platform - say, a different program, or another tier of service - that those interruptions aren't really ads, because the company isn't actually getting paid to air it. It absolutely looks and acts like an ad to the viewers, but the companies are trying to redefine the word.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The executive pointed out that Prime Video with ads doesn't show commercials in the middle of Content

That's a blatant lie, it definitely does.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Copying my reply to someone else:

What did they interrupt the episode for? Because a number of companies have adopted the policy that, if the interruption is promoting something else offered by the platform - say, a different program, or another tier of service - that those interruptions aren't really ads, because the company isn't actually getting paid to air it. It absolutely looks and acts like an ad to the viewers, but the companies are trying to redefine the word.

[–] CeeBee_Eh 1 points 2 months ago

I'm getting non-stop Samsung, insurance, food, and other kinds of ads in the middle of shows.

It makes me not want to use Prime. And in fact, I don't anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Pretty sure it was some random Aldi commercial or sth.