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
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.
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.
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.
Hm seems to be missing the “Fuck off” button
That can be found right here:
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.
Sounds like you’re ready to stop buying anything from Amazon. One of us. One of us…
Steal from them.
Already am.
I remember a time when Hulu was free and without ads. Then it was not free with ads. First was never gonna last, but the route they took to get where they are NOW was absolutely stupid as fuck.
isn’t Hulu shutting down
God damn it. I knew Disney getting into the streaming biz was going to suck balls. I was already pissed off when they pulled their content to form their own service.
Well, guess I’ll be watching more anime. Only got Crunchyroll left. And I’m not sure how long that’s gonna last either. They are making stupid choices as well.
Oh so it is. I hadnt heard this news until just now looking up what you’re talking about.
points at Hulu Ha ha!
I am so angry about this. I generally like Hulu, I hate Disney+.
I’d have liked Hulu a lot more if it weren’t geo-restricted to the US.
It isn’t shutting down, it is just being folded into Disney+. You can still get a standalone Hulu subscription but as of sometimenext year will only be accessible through the the Disney+ app.
I’m pretty sure it was never free and without ads. There were much fewer and even sometimes would have really quick “thanks for watching now get back to the show” ads but ad free has always been paid
It was only ad free for like a year, if that. I originally thought it was a piracy site when I first found it.
Pretty confident you’re wearing rose tinted glasses. They had very few ads in the beginning. you could get through multiple episodes without getting them but they definitely existed. Maybe you had an ad blocker? I literally can’t find any evidence it was ever both and I was using it within the first few months of it’s public release
Bezos has enough money
the only thing that I think that you can do about it is cancel and not use the service.
Options are “close” and “close and give us even more data”
Interesting
You better sail the high seas and watch your shows Amazon-free.
Cough cough fmhy cough cough
