Amazon Prime Video starts showing ads in January unless you pay $2.99/month xtra

3 years ago by haxor to c/hackernews

Amazon will begin rolling out ads on Prime Video for all customers starting in January 2024, the retailer has just confirmed.

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

Mojojojo1993 22 points 3 years ago

Fucking vultures. Although it is free with prime so I kinda get it. But still, Netflix and Disney. Fuckers.

If there's ads on prime I'll just stop watching prime and pirate those shows.

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runswithjedi 16 points 3 years ago

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Batbro 2 points 3 years ago

Haha you just reminded me I could just do that

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Mojojojo1993 5 points 3 years ago

Too true. Depends how invasive the ads are. Pirating is fine but it takes a bit more preparation.

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Riccosuave 16 points 3 years ago

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weasel5053 9 points 3 years ago

Amazon sucks ass

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bdonvr 2 points 3 years ago

Man I just started watching a show there. Masterchef México

I looked it up on some uh, less reputable sources, but could only find like scattered single episode uploads.

I want to build my NAS and start just using Jellyfin but man is it an absolute pain in the ASS to find non-English content which is a lot of what I'm watching lately. I also couldn't find a Latino Spanish dub of ATLA in decent quality, or rather I did but only the first two seasons. Fortunately the full Blu-ray set was only like $10 but still.

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