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[–] 41 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Ha ha! You pay to watch ads.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago*

    I didn't have prime for the streaming and hardly used it. Until Christmas when I just wanted Christmas bullshit on in the background and prime decided to cut in mid sentence to run an obnoxiously loud ad. So that's how we finally cancelled prime.

    Also, paying to watch ads was how cable worked.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

    Amazon gives out free prime all the time.

    I think I've had 2 one month free primes, and 1 free week of prime, so far this year. Of course I take it, and burden their servers by leaving shit streaming as often as I can, with absolutely no return on investment for them.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    with absolutely no return on investment for them.

    They show ads unless you pay for the super plus version of Prime. So by streaming they get ad revenue from the companies advertising even if you don't watch the ads. The companies pay for the ads by increasing the price of what they sell- and they don't sell only on Amazon but everywhere.

    So when you buy a bag of chips at the local store, some of that money is going to Amazon because you had their streaming on.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Isn't that doing more harm to the environment than you then? I appreciate the sentiment tho

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