I appreciate those footnotes that say "1 of 3 ads remaining" because it
gives me the opportunity to decide if I can run to the kitchen or bathroom,
like it was the 1980's and most commercial breaks were 4x30 seconds (2
minutes).
On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 1:10 PM Marti Lawrence
wrote:
> We have
We have been streaming some older programs on Prime, and sadly, they have
the ads roughly halfway through. Sometimes it was only 30 seconds, but
then it got to where it said, "Ad 1 of 2" and there was a countdown clock
showing how many seconds were left of the minute or so of commercials.
We
That’s good to know. If I start running into in-episode ads I will go
ad-free.
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On Sat, 3 Feb 2024 at 5:45 PM Jim Ellwanger wrote:
> “Hazbin Hotel” actually had no preroll ads, but did have one 15-second ad
> in the middle of each episode (at a natural-ish break point).
“Hazbin Hotel” actually had no preroll ads, but did have one 15-second ad in
the middle of each episode (at a natural-ish break point). I wonder if Amazon
is doing some A/B testing on ad placement.
> On Feb 3, 2024, at 3:33 PM, PGage wrote:
>
> As promised, ads started this week on Amazon. I
As promised, ads started this week on Amazon. I started and finished “Mr
and Mrs Smith over last few days (2 thumbs up, so much better than the
movie) and found the ads to be just this side of tolerable. They do not
interrupt the program, and there is only 1 or 2 of them at the start of
each
We're going to give it a chance with the ads, as they claim they will only
be at the beginning of a show, which will air uninterrupted after that.
~Marti
On Thursday, December 28, 2023 at 5:06:14 PM UTC-6 Adam Bowie wrote:
> It's starting in the UK from 5 February and it'll cost us £2.99 a
It's starting in the UK from 5 February and it'll cost us £2.99 a month to
avoid. From the BBC report on it:
"Customers in the US and Canada will see ads earlier from 29 January, and
Amazon plans to expand them to France, Italy, Spain, Mexico and Australia
later in 2024."
So I'm not sure
I should add... that after I saw that announcement I looked into it from a
Canadian perspective. Doesn't look like it applies to us yet. I pay
$9.99 CAD per month for Amazon Prime (the shipping and some discounts) and
also get Prime Video (movies, some TV shows) included.
of course, our
I got their email this week, but they said it was $2.99/month (not $3.99)
to avoid the ads. They said they will have “meaningfully” fewer ads than
linear tv and other streamers.
As noted here on other threads, The default is to accept the ads, unlike
other services, where the default was to
I am to the point where, when we find a series we like on any of the
streaming platforms, I go to iTunes and buy it, because inevitably we will
go back to watch an episode and it will have been removed.
Kevin M. (RPCV)
On Thu, Dec 28, 2023 at 11:10 AM Doug Eastick wrote:
> I saw that
I saw that announcement.
There's a decent thread on Mastodon about the continued enshittification of
Amazon.
https://mastodon.social/@angusm/111657952280392738
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
/Doug
east...@mcd.on.ca
On Thu, Dec 28, 2023, 13:18 Mark Jeffries wrote:
> They
They said they were going to do it and they are, but there was much weeping
and gnashing of teeth on social media when they started sending out Emails
to subscribers this week--if you don't want commercials, plunk down $3.99
more a month, just like you plunk down more for everyone else:
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