DQ
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I just got this minutes ago.
"We are writing to you today about an upcoming change to your Prime Video experience. Starting January 29, Prime Video movies and TV shows will include limited advertisements. This will allow us to continue investing in compelling content and keep increasing that investment over a long period of time. We aim to have meaningfully fewer ads than linear TV and other streaming TV providers. No action is required from you, and there is no change to the current price of your Prime membership. We will also offer a new ad-free option for an additional $2.99 per month* that you can sign up for here."
This is more shrinkflation. You pay X, you now get less with X and if you want what you had before you have to pay more.
I can see the other platforms doing this as they are hurting, but I doubt Amazon is hurting.
I am not even sure how much benefit there is with Prime at this point. The main selling feature was 2 day shipping but that's been gone for a few years and now this. Might be time to cancel.
"We are writing to you today about an upcoming change to your Prime Video experience. Starting January 29, Prime Video movies and TV shows will include limited advertisements. This will allow us to continue investing in compelling content and keep increasing that investment over a long period of time. We aim to have meaningfully fewer ads than linear TV and other streaming TV providers. No action is required from you, and there is no change to the current price of your Prime membership. We will also offer a new ad-free option for an additional $2.99 per month* that you can sign up for here."
This is more shrinkflation. You pay X, you now get less with X and if you want what you had before you have to pay more.
I can see the other platforms doing this as they are hurting, but I doubt Amazon is hurting.
I am not even sure how much benefit there is with Prime at this point. The main selling feature was 2 day shipping but that's been gone for a few years and now this. Might be time to cancel.