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Amazon Plans Commercial Breaks for Prime Video::Amazon plans to add commercial breaks to its Prime Video service, the latest streamer to embrace advertising after previously shunning it

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Showing ads should only be acceptable for free services. If I'm paying for your service, you should not be force feeding me ads.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

That's how it used to be last year, but the goal posts move every year to less value for consumers and more money to the billionaries.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Tell that to the cable networks. We all knew it was just a matter of time before streaming services got greedy, and now they're all trying it.