the ads on prime, and what they're pushing at me

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I've been (or still am actually) sick, and have been doing nothing but laying around watching TV between naps. I didn't want to have to think or choose, so I've done some marathon runs of shows on prime:

- season 3 of Miami Vice
- 5+ episodes of MST3k
- 5+ episodes of RiffTrax
- half of season 7 of Hunter

So nothing but quality. The ads though, man they do not make good use of the screen time.

At first it was kinda cool, they had ads for stuff related to what I bought at Amazon so I was getting ads for the new Calloway drivers. Then, it was reduced to basically the following:

- acne wash (in english and spanish)
- some med for that disease when your skin isn't evenly pigmented
- coco beach florida
- soup (on point for a sick person, but the freakin' chick and dancing around were offensive)

Over and over and over again. FOR DAYS.

Amazon knows what I spend my money on, and I'm sure they're buying info about me from the other tech giants so why can't they target ads for crap? Or is their profile of me a bilingual golfer with several skin issues that likes soup and wants to go to florida?
 
Is Amazon not making enough money? Jeff Bezos running low on slush funds to take his new plastic side piece around the world?

Why on earth would they start putting ads in for a paid service? This will drive more traffic to the other competing streaming services without ads.
 
I would not pay for a service and then watch ads. I would turn it off and do something else first.

They should know that people, largely hate tv ads. They know people went to services like prime to avoid them. Why would they think putting them back in is a good idea.
 
noway2 said:
I would not pay for a service and then watch ads. I would turn it off and do something else first.

They should know that people, largely hate tv ads. They know people went to services like prime to avoid them. Why would they think putting them back in is a good idea.
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Because they're greedy and most of us are too lazy to do anything more than shrug and accept it?
 
NCLivingBrit said:
Because they're greedy and most of us are too lazy to do anything more than shrug and accept it?
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pretty much that.

the worst scam is when you pay for 'limited' ads. that means nothing, so you're paying more and getting absolutely nothing for it.
 
For about a week I was getting Nikki Haley ads on every single YouTube break. Now it keeps trying to play some 10 minute long ad, and I still can't tell you what it's actually an ad for.
 
YouTube does this crap too. I’m not sure which I hate most, the interruption of the clip I am watching or the fact the ad has absolutely NOTHING to do with what I am watching. If you are going to break in, at least let it be related. Ex: I watch a lot of fishing vids. Why would you inject a makeup ad or kids toy ad in a fishing vid?? At least be smart about it and show a Diawa or sunscreen commercial. Jeeze. The other one that gets me, you are watching a 60sec clip and it forces you to watch an equal length or greater length commercial. Junk!
 
.EC. said:
Why on earth would they start putting ads in for a paid service? This will drive more traffic to the other competing streaming services without ads.
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Good chance he is watching in the section that says free with ads. Most of the stuff that is included with prime does not have ads. But they do have a section that if you watch it they have commercials every 15 or 20 minutes. But it does warn you before hand.
 
Supermatch said:
For about a week I was getting Nikki Haley ads on every single YouTube break. Now it keeps trying to play some 10 minute long ad, and I still can't tell you what it's actually an ad for.
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Brave browser is really good at stopping Youtube ads, if you haven't given it a try yet. :)
 
Crankbait said:
Good chance he is watching in the section that says free with ads. Most of the stuff that is included with prime does not have ads. But they do have a section that if you watch it they have commercials every 15 or 20 minutes. But it does warn you before hand.
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They changed to everything having ads now unless you pay another $3/month or something on top of prime, and it's still not clear if that really gets you 'no ads' or just 'less'. Dunno, because I'm not paying. I won't be sick forever.
 
Crankbait said:
Good chance he is watching in the section that says free with ads. Most of the stuff that is included with prime does not have ads. But they do have a section that if you watch it they have commercials every 15 or 20 minutes. But it does warn you before hand.
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That’s the FreeVee content and yes there are ads every 10 minutes. Now they’ve put a new warning that says you’ll be watching ads for everything unless you want to “opt out” for $2.99/month.
 
Gnash.Hyena said:
Brave browser is really good at stopping Youtube ads, if you haven't given it a try yet. :)
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A while back, I watched the entire Battlestar Galactica remake on Tubi (I think it was). It too tries to play ads, but I found that Brave running on Linux was pretty good at skipping those too.
 
I remember the good old days when I paid for cable TV. They never had ads, and when I did pay for premium like HBO, they never ran previews.

/sarcasm

I get it, ads suck. But we can’t pretend that ads for a paid service is something new
 
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.EC. said:
Is Amazon not making enough money? Jeff Bezos running low on slush funds to take his new plastic side piece around the world?

Why on earth would they start putting ads in for a paid service? This will drive more traffic to the other competing streaming services without ads.
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My guess is that the paid services don’t make back nearly as much of their budget as the corps would have you believe.
 
There used to be an option on Amazon to only show video content included with Amazon Prime, that’s long gone and 75% of what they try to show me requires a fee or additional subscription. I’m getting times of their business model.
 
GymB said:
There used to be an option on Amazon to only show video content included with Amazon Prime, that’s long gone and 75% of what they try to show me requires a fee or additional subscription. I’m getting times of their business model.
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Their politics drove me off long ago.
 
I deregistered my device (TV) from Amazon on Jan 28th.

I get plenty of screen time here. You clowns are entertaining enough.

And I generally like the ads!
 
GymB said:
There used to be an option on Amazon to only show video content included with Amazon Prime, that’s long gone and 75% of what they try to show me requires a fee or additional subscription. I’m getting times of their business model.
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As mentioned above, Amazon Prime content now has ads also unless you want to pay an additional $2.99/month. According to the article below, the only time you won't see ads is when you rent or purchase a video. For now...

www.techhive.com

Amazon Prime Video has ads now; here's how to stop them

There's a way to nix the ads that just started popping up on Prime Video, but it'll cost you.
www.techhive.com www.techhive.com
 
Jayne said:
They changed to everything having ads now unless you pay another $3/month or something on top of prime, and it's still not clear if that really gets you 'no ads' or just 'less'. Dunno, because I'm not paying. I won't be sick forever.
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.EC. said:
That’s the FreeVee content and yes there are ads every 10 minutes. Now they’ve put a new warning that says you’ll be watching ads for everything unless you want to “opt out” for $2.99/month.
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Uh must be really new. I’ve watched several movies this week and yet to see ads. I didn’t op to pay anything extra. Certain movies say Freevee with ads but the movies that say included with prime do not have ads.


We had cable tv growing up. Commercials were every 15 mins. We paid for the service then and still had ads. What’s the difference now?


We would make a game out of it and see how fast we could use the bathroom, get a drink or snack and make it back in time and not miss anything.
 
When we have to kennel up the dog for a couple hours, we put on some nature scenes or aerial travel videos for sound so it's not totally devoid of interest for him
one day i started it, left the room, and came back to a TWO HOUR documentary on drag queens as a "commercial".
i suppose to amazon it makes sense though, he had some of his boy parts removed... might as well have him transition even further.
Now i just turn on Christian radio and leave the tv off.

NCLivingBrit said:
Cable wasn't sold specifically as an ad free experience. Streaming was.
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the future is now, old man
 
DrScaryGuy said:
the future is now, old man
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And in this future they get not one thin dime from me. Netflix, Amazon, Disney, I used to subscribe to all of them. Now, not a one.

If they want to pander to leftist nonsense, flood us with foreign crap nobody wants and jam their racist garbage into adaptations of classics they can count me out. Saves me a pretty penny and I don't miss it.
 
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i'll probably never give up prime on account of the shipping. having next day prime delivery take 2 weeks is still better than shopping in town
streaming tv is just a bonus. same with the included twitch, musicc, whatever else they do
 
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I think this (the OP’s original post) all the time. I mute commercials and ignore them all the time. It is indeed wasted air time. Put some effort into showing me something of interest. They surely have a database of my likings. They should know I don’t need Pampers diapers, or a Spanish worded commercial, or whatever other trash ad they throw at me.
 
It’s just better to learn how to raise the black flag. I get all the shows I like commercial free, with no money going to pedowood.
 
.EC. said:
Why on earth would they start putting ads in for a paid service? This will drive more traffic to the other competing streaming services without ads.
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Eggzatly. My Prime membership expires in 2 days and I'm not paying the $130 to renew. I expect this financial blow may put Bezos on his heels...
 
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Y'all should consider yourselves lucky, I get nothing but ads for penis reduction surgery.
It's nearly nonstop and it's really starting to make me think I have some sort of a problem.
 
I did opt out of ads on Discovery Plus, 10-15 minutes to watch the program.
 
I laugh at the cocoa beach ads and the “retro” description. We honeymooned there and the place was a time capsule. Big disappointment.
 
Gnash.Hyena said:
Brave browser is really good at stopping Youtube ads, if you haven't given it a try yet. :)
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Be careful. Youtube basically has their own malware that if it detects an ad blocker it will reveal up your CPU into overdrive and take up extra memory. The Quartering did a video on it.
 
ChickenHawk said:
Be careful. Youtube basically has their own malware that if it detects an ad blocker it will reveal up your CPU into overdrive and take up extra memory. The Quartering did a video on it.
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i have never noticed that
my laptops never see commercials on youtube
 
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