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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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[-] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 124 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

“We aim to have meaningfully fewer ads than linear TV and other streaming TV providers. No action is required from you, and there is no change to the current price of your Prime membership,”

The double-speak is relatively subtle, but it's always interesting to see how much work they put into gaslighting their customers:

"No action is required from you..." - yes, Amazon hopes we do nothing, but Amazon unilaterally changed the assumptions underlying agreement, so "no action" is an acquiescence to a materially worse reality for us and a better one for Amazon.
"...there is no change to the current price of your Prime membership" - yes, no additional dollars are required because Amazon is now selling our time and attention, but that is still a new "fee" we are paying.

Pretty gross, Amazon.

[-] trafficnab@lemmy.ca 60 points 11 months ago

The enshittification will continue until profit margins improve

[-] geekworking@lemmy.world 34 points 11 months ago

Enshitification won't stop until the frogs realize that they are being boiled to death and jump out of the pot.

[-] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

Or until we get back to 0% interest rates that these companies could get for the past 10 years. The free money dried up!

[-] Plopp@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

The enshittification will continue until the demand for profit is removed*

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

...demand for constant growth is removed.*

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 points 11 months ago

until profit margins improve

Lol

What is this mythical profit margin/amount that companies would be willing to accept? There is no limit to corporate greed...

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