spaghettiwesternPop-up Amazon TV ads despite charging people monthly fees for their ad-free plan.
Amazon: "Oh, we didn’t mean those ads. That’s clearly stated on page 112 of the user agreement under “Enshittification.”
In the advertising world, it’s not advertising, it’s a promotion
For example, if you go to the grocery store, there is a difference between hearing/seeing something that says, “bananas are on special today” vs “go buy [specific brand] of cereal today!”
still sucks though
Gotta call BS. I didn’t go anywhere and happen across a promotion, Amazon pushed this ad into my home, despite charging me a monthly fee not to do so. Why not go all the way and call it a public service announcement?
This is just like cold calls from local contracting companies claiming that they aren’t violating the “Do Not Call” list because they aren’t actually selling new windows, just informing the public of their new promotion.
You can call “bs” all you want, but you’re yelling at the messenger. If I understand the situation correctly, you’re using an Amazon service, so Amazon promoting Amazon stuff on that service might count as self-promotion (or whatever the term is) rather than advertisement. The difference being that they’re not being paid by somebody to promote their thing, and just calling out their own services/events.
Note that I’m also not supporting this, I don’t like it, but I’m also not surprised if that’s how that works, and that Amazon would be using it this way.
They may have a specific corpo-speak word for it that they have codified into law with liberal applications of money… but in effect it is still advertising.
Arguing the etymology is like a child abuser arguing the difference between pedophilia and ephebophilia. At the end of the day, they’re still a child abuser, no matter how they define it.
Then cancel your amazon…
I’m just telling you how the world works and why what you’re seeing still counts as “ad-free”
i agree it sucks. So cancel your sucky service and don’t try to paint me as a child abuse apologist
According to you an ad is not an ad when you or Amazon use the word “promotion”.
I’m curious, in your opinion when does something like this become an ad? Is it an ad if they they pop it up mid-show every hour? No? How about every 10 minutes, is it an ad then?
Marketing departments attempt to bend reality and public opinion to benefit their company. Their efforts have obviously been effective with at least one commenter on Lemmy.
If you’re getting paid to promote someone else’s shit, it’s an ad…
If you’re promoting something related to your own businss on your own propery and not getting paid by an external party, it’s probably not an ad…
When you use an app from big tech, you’re on their property. They can display whatever they want on their app. They can promise “ad-free” and break that promise if they want… or in this case, most people will agree it’s not an ad
Again, my explanation of our enshittified reality is not an endorsement… hence i choose to avoid big tech where i can and opt for free software.
I welcome you to do the same instead of demanding that amazon follow your view of the world
Well folks, the brainwashing’s complete on this one.
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Darkassassin07That can be found right here:
Wow. Makes me want to cancel them twice.
comador Paramount does this shit too.
If you have Ad Free Paramount+ you get 30s intro ads where you have to hit the >> or OK button to make it go away.
Nate CoxThe “previews” are standard fare across most streaming apps and it drives me absolutely crazy.
MinnesotaGoddamat least you can skip them
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 I remember a time when Hulu was free and without ads. Then it was not free with ads. First was never gonna last, but the route they took to get where they are NOW was absolutely stupid as fuck.
Oh so it is. I hadnt heard this news until just now looking up what you’re talking about.
points at Hulu Ha ha!
darkdemizeI’d have liked Hulu a lot more if it weren’t geo-restricted to the US.
God damn it. I knew Disney getting into the streaming biz was going to suck balls. I was already pissed off when they pulled their content to form their own service.
Well, guess I’ll be watching more anime. Only got Crunchyroll left. And I’m not sure how long that’s gonna last either. They are making stupid choices as well.
Jayayess1190It isn’t shutting down, it is just being folded into Disney+. You can still get a standalone Hulu subscription but as of sometimenext year will only be accessible through the the Disney+ app.
I’m pretty sure it was never free and without ads. There were much fewer and even sometimes would have really quick “thanks for watching now get back to the show” ads but ad free has always been paid
It was only ad free for like a year, if that. I originally thought it was a piracy site when I first found it.
Pretty confident you’re wearing rose tinted glasses. They had very few ads in the beginning. you could get through multiple episodes without getting them but they definitely existed. Maybe you had an ad blocker? I literally can’t find any evidence it was ever both and I was using it within the first few months of it’s public release
Sounds like you’re ready to stop buying anything from Amazon. One of us. One of us…
TheReturnOfPEBthe only thing that I think that you can do about it is cancel and not use the service.
Bezos has enough money
Steal from them.
Already am.
then you start your ad-free viewing by selecting a show… and they show you an ad for a different show. this aggravated me more than the ads on the page shown there.
This is the same as all the games that advertise themselves as having no ads but they do have ads for in app purchases.
For some reason they don’t consider those as being ads.
don’t forget “close and give misleading data”
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teftI’m sorry but if i pay for a service that’s ad free and they put ads in the media i’m watching then i will instantly cancel that service. Anyone who doesn’t is just enabling that behavior.
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Possibly linuxWhile I don’t personally engage in piracy, I can definitely see why people go that route. Streaming services suck so much. All these companies had to do was make it more convenient to not pirate.
there’s a reason why video game and music piracy has had a dramatic reduction, and why tv/movies still have a significant number of pirates.
There’s definitely something in their terms of service that says the ad-free doesn’t apply to their products.
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MissJinxAd-blockers are a must
The only time I see ads are when I’m streaming something live. And that’s because they have actual commercial breaks