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Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free (www.theverge.com)

submitted 11 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Alpha71@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

eh, I don't really care. It's a gimme with prime. TBH I rarely watch anything on it. The only thing I'm watching right now is the current season of Reacher.

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I only watched grand tour anyway, but I can't cancel it since my mother loves the frees shipping.

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[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Amazon replacements:

Audiobooks: Libro.fm (no DRM)
eBooks: eBooks.com (specifically, their DRM-free section)
Shopping: basically any major online retailer's website
Electronics: System76 (for gaming machines), ThinkPenguin (for FOSS machines)
Groceries: your local grocer, lol.

As for video streaming, it's going to take a breakup of the Big Tech monopolies via revival of anti-trust laws to fix that. Hear the first chapter of The Internet Con (skip to 2m5s) by Cory Doctorow for more on that.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 11 months ago

Fortunately a VPN is like 30 quid a year. Jellyfin and Radarr are my jam now.

I've kept Netflix and Disney+ for now. I was looking to cancel one for a while, and Amazon made that an easy choice. There's fucking nothing on it at the best of times.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

The only reason I still have Prime Video is because of a super weird bug where it tries to charge an already expired card. Somehow, it doesn't register as expired and I can just "renew" it every month

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