Those Darn Ads in Prime Shows

Jules

Jules

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It seemed like Amazon Prime shows just had a couple of ads in the beginning. Now there’re several, I’m finding them really irritating, especially as I watch the timer countdown. Not only that, they’ve been really stupid commercials.

It’s really is frustrating to be paying for streaming and having to put up with these. It makes me feel like I should cancel the subscription.
 

I expect ads to take over. Too many people are "sharing" a paid subscription, so their costs go up but they don't get more subscription income.

Before long they'll all have ads, even those who offer a higher-priced tier with no ads today. Cable TV did the same thing.

The other cost driver, just as happened with cable, is "sports" syndicates moving into streaming services. Organized crime wants a really big cut. On cable this was called "the ESPN Tax" levied on all subscribers.
 
Jules said:
It seemed like Amazon Prime shows just had a couple of ads in the beginning. Now there’re several, I’m finding them really irritating, especially as I watch the timer countdown. Not only that, they’ve been really stupid commercials.

It’s really is frustrating to be paying for streaming and having to put up with these. It makes me feel like I should cancel the subscription.
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... and it won't belong before they start interrupting movies by inserting commercials in the middle of them. There needs to be an excess profits tax to stop the abuse and bring prices back down.
 

Interrupting people who are watching a show or a movie or a documentary, or a chess game, in order to interest them in purchasing something or in voting for someone is just plain dumb. It only serves to elicit an angered reaction.
 
It’s like gas pumps playing commercials while you’re tethered to them, fueling. I already pay for Amazon Prime; forced commercial viewing is like a second charge. How many times do we have to pay for the same thing or service?! - - a pox on them, I say, or at least a good case of prickly heat! 😼
 
You can pay even more to Amazon to have the ads stopped. Don't have a link because I haven't looked into it. Most I'm getting is 2min 30sec before a movie. But the amount of ads varies. Sometimes none, sometimes 2, sometimes 2:30. I put up with it as I settle in and get ready to watch a movie which will otherwise be uninterrupted.

Outside of college football, I only watch TV when going to bed and ads put me to sleep just as easily as movies ;)
 
I pay the $2.99 to Amazon to stop the commercials. But it does not stop the ones that are shown at the beginning of the movie. I don't watch any of the other services that show commercials anymore. Just got tired of those. Lately I have not been watching any Prime Videos. I am paying for YT premium and don't get any of those ads either. Great. But the channel content creators put their own ads right in their videos. I just unsubscribed to a bunch of them. Now I have started watching my collection of DVDs and even some of them have ads in them! Can't get away from them.
 
Next time I’ll add up the length of the commercials.

Saw one where a little girl is practicing her piano lessons while the BM painter is working in the dining room of this large, rich person’s house. At the end he leaves and they smile. I have no clue what any of that meant. It’s been on every night for 10 episodes and that’s all I’ve glanced at. Clean glasses, get a drink of water, etc. Definitely not paying extra.
 
I know what you mean Jules. If I was paying for Prime, I'd drop it because Prime is my least favorite streaming service (ads or not). But it's a perk with my MetroPCS cell phone plan. When they first announced that they would be instituting ads, it was supposed to be brief ads. The countdown timer and how many ads are coming is useful because it lets me know how much time I have to do something else.
 
Things are getting tight. We just lost two of the oldest ad-supported streaming services: Crackle and PopcornFlix.

So whinge away, none of us like ads. But cheating and scamming (i.e. Account sharing - Wikipedia and use of VPNs to bypass region locking) hurts us all.
 

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