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Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free (www.theverge.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You make it sound like a savvy business decision to double dip with subscriptions and ads. They choose to give it away with prime to get market share from Netflix. All that's changed is they've decided you're ready to be bent over a barrel now.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

True. I don't use it. But, it does cost money.