Wednesday, 14 September 2016

Amazon is now putting unskippable ads before their Prime videos.

This happened to me last night. It was a ~30–60 s ad for another show and there was no skip button I could find or a timeline to advance.

I e-mailed customer service in case it was some error with my Prime account. According to the response, it was deliberate and the rep tried to sell it to me as just providing helpful information. They also contradicted themselves by saying they don't want us to experience it, but apparently they do because this wasn't an error?

There are 2 reasons people pay for streaming services:

  1. Streaming is convenient
  2. No ads

Amazon is throwing away half of what makes their service good.



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