Amazon Plans Commercial Breaks for Prime Video::Amazon plans to add commercial breaks to its Prime Video service, the latest streamer to embrace advertising after previously shunning it

  • Jackthelad@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Showing ads should only be acceptable for free services. If I’m paying for your service, you should not be force feeding me ads.

  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I wanna say that corpos making decisions like this indicate a lack of oversight/sensibility but honestly it seems to be fucking working. I want to say that decisions like this would push the majority to piracy but the profits of these companies only seem to be going up as the monetary gain from these policies outweigh the money lost from the minority of people who do switch to piracy.

    The convenience fee is only for convenience if you have the knowhow and willingness to put in the extra work required for the alternative