upgrade to piracy. its free and ad-free.
I’m on their ad-free plan myself. but the free one, that you don’t pay anything for.
same! I like that buffering is never an issue. and I don’t even have to deal with their shitty UI!
and they don’t even mind you sharing your password with family either
I’m sorry but if i pay for a service that’s ad free and they put ads in the media i’m watching then i will instantly cancel that service. Anyone who doesn’t is just enabling that behavior.
I left when they started charging more so they wouldn’t ruin your service with ads… which they did anyway
The parasite understands only one language…
Deny it profit and engagement.
If you are using these normie services, you are the problem.
They treat you like cattle, do something
ReVanced, SmartTubeNext, a Fen Lite build of Kodi, and Real-Debrid. You’ll never sit through any adverts ever again.
then you start your ad-free viewing by selecting a show… and they show you an ad for a different show. this aggravated me more than the ads on the page shown there.
This is the same as all the games that advertise themselves as having no ads but they do have ads for in app purchases.
For some reason they don’t consider those as being ads.
Amazon: "Oh, we didn’t mean those ads. That’s clearly stated on page 112 of the user agreement under “Enshittification.”
In the advertising world, it’s not advertising, it’s a promotion
For example, if you go to the grocery store, there is a difference between hearing/seeing something that says, “bananas are on special today” vs “go buy [specific brand] of cereal today!”
still sucks though
Promotions are a form of advertising. Just because they have the excuse that it’s advertising on their own service doesn’t make it not advertising.
Gotta call BS. I didn’t go anywhere and happen across a promotion, Amazon pushed this ad into my home, despite charging me a monthly fee not to do so. Why not go all the way and call it a public service announcement?
This is just like cold calls from local contracting companies claiming that they aren’t violating the “Do Not Call” list because they aren’t actually selling new windows, just informing the public of their new promotion.
You can call “bs” all you want, but you’re yelling at the messenger. If I understand the situation correctly, you’re using an Amazon service, so Amazon promoting Amazon stuff on that service might count as self-promotion (or whatever the term is) rather than advertisement. The difference being that they’re not being paid by somebody to promote their thing, and just calling out their own services/events.
Note that I’m also not supporting this, I don’t like it, but I’m also not surprised if that’s how that works, and that Amazon would be using it this way.
They may have a specific corpo-speak word for it that they have codified into law with liberal applications of money… but in effect it is still advertising.
Arguing the etymology is like a child abuser arguing the difference between pedophilia and ephebophilia. At the end of the day, they’re still a child abuser, no matter how they define it.
Then cancel your amazon…
I’m just telling you how the world works and why what you’re seeing still counts as “ad-free”
i agree it sucks. So cancel your sucky service and don’t try to compare me to a child abuse apologist
Nah, they’re promoting their retail business on their streaming platform. Not the same thing. This is a scummy move from Amazon
So you upgraded to an ad-free plan and they still show this?
Yup.
Wow. Makes me want to cancel them twice.
Paramount does this shit too.
If you have Ad Free Paramount+ you get 30s intro ads where you have to hit the >> or OK button to make it go away.
The “previews” are standard fare across most streaming apps and it drives me absolutely crazy.
You better sail the high seas and watch your shows Amazon-free.
Hm seems to be missing the “Fuck off” button
That can be found right here:
Options are “close” and “close and give us even more data”
Interesting
Steal from them.
Already am.
Sounds like you’re ready to stop buying anything from Amazon. One of us. One of us…
