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Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free (www.theverge.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 137 points 10 months ago (6 children)
  1. it's basically fine and unoffensive ui to 99.9% of people
  2. people see it as functionally free because they bought prime for free delivery
  3. People don't know how to pirate
[–] [email protected] 53 points 10 months ago

I'm deep into the seven seas but I still use prime because a family member pays for it. Its a decent enough ui and has some live stuff I can throw on to keep kids entertained. However, I've already added the shows I watch on prime to my jellyfin server just because this change is going to make me not want to use it anymore.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

Yep. I don’t consider it as a valuable streaming platform. If they removed it from the general prime I would not buy it separately.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Still a better UI than Disney+ too

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I didn't realize just how good the Netflix UI was until using Paramount+

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Netflix’s demand to auto-play a trailer/song on every tile make any tv freeze or crash nearly every time I use the Netflix app on it. It’s gotten to the point I’m about to just cancel netflix because I can’t watch it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh that’s great thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Welcome!

Happy new year!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thanks! Helpful for me, I'm really not into trailers blasting from my speakers when I browse (on my 360 lol).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

No problem; glad to be of assistance. :-)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I can understand 1 and 2, although, for 3, even though, most of my (nontechie) friends don't know how to pirate, they know how to look up grey streaming sites like 123movies, sflix, fmovies, etc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I’m a shameless sailor but my wife has it for the free shipping.

Their menus are ass but I really like the actual player ui. Love pausing and seeing who is in the scene.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I can't agree with #1. The interface is that of Amazon's regular storefront and it often mixes paid media in with the free stuff or has stupid stuff like seasons 2, 4, & 6 being free while 1, 3, & 5 are paid. Maybe it's different in the TV apps, but the browser version is atrocious.