In the race to make piracy as enticing an option as possible Amazon will be adding adverts to Prime Video next year unless you pay an *additonal* charge to avoid them.
Streaming services really seem very eager to promote the resurgence of illegal downloading 🤔
@wiredfire the Freevie section of Amazon Video already has ads. And yeah, all of a sudden privacy is more tempting.
@gpowerf the freevie thing already kinda irked me but at least it was upfront about it.
With this, Netflix getting arsey account account sharing, Disney & Paramount deleting great shows and movies on a whim I’m really not keen to support this nonsense.
Piracy is easier, more convenient, and of course cheaper.
They’ve forgotten than piracy massively reduced when streaming was reasonably priced & great to use.
@gpowerf though A FRIEND OF MINE 👀 has found downloading shows tricky as apparently a single 45 minute episode in HD is 4-5GB these days..!!! What happened to rippers optimising their video??
@wiredfire I'm actually OK with ads as long as:
* They are not too long.
* I can pay extra on a per-movie basis to remove them. I frankly don't care about ads on TV series.
* I am in control of what ads to ban from ever appearing again.
@gpowerf I don’t mind ads.
I don’t mind paying.
I *do* mind paying then also getting ads.