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Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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[–] steelrat@lemmy.world 35 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm amazed that they have any customers paying to listen to ads. I wont stand for it and I find it surprising others would.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In one year Amazon made it impossible to listen to albums on Prime Music, and shoved ads into everything on Prime Video.

Easy cancel for me. I can go without your next day shipping.

Better still I can buy from someone else.

[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The alternative is either:

  1. Don't watch the show / movie you wanted to - unacceptable sacrifice for a lot of people.
  2. Break the law / pirate - some people really dislike this, or else are scared, or are not technically savvy enough to know how to or that it's even an option.
  3. Sometimes it's too much trouble, like if you pirate a show you need to get subtitles in your own language and hope the times line up.

I agree it's unacceptable for me, but I also get why so many people just put up with it.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do these services not offer a more expensive ad-free plan?

[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I'm sure they do, but I issue is they already were / should have been making a profit on the existing, bottom tier ad free plan. Now it's just price gouging by adding ads to existing tier instead of adding new cheaper tier with ads.