Prime Video Now Has Ads or Pay MORE! 😡
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
- Amazon Prime video now has ads and it is going to cost you to get rid of them. Like Disney+ and Netflix, the basic Prime Video is ad supported. To go ad free it is $2.99 a month. But I am not going to pay for it and here is why.
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Adding ads that were not there before while not lowering price…screw this.
I will NEVER EVER pay to remove the ads they are forcing us to watch. Joke's on them.. I don't watch Prime. And now? they can shove it.
fairly stupid comment.
Too bad it’s not just Amazon adding ads to already paid services
I quit Prime altogether. Ads on video was the last straw. I spent thousands of dollars at Amazon, but that will change. I'll start spreading my dollars at Walmart and other online shopping stores that deliver. Yeah, it may take longer to get things, but oh-well. It's Amazon's loss. I exclusively shopped there using Prime, but no more.
Ads suck. I cancelled Prime yesterday.
Another example of the prevalent "greed-flation"...
I rarely watch Prime Video these days, the only reason I maintain my Prime subscription really is because I shop with them so regularly
Amazon is honestly getting worse. Ive had numerous problems with shipping. Now im dealing with ads. Every streaming platform is doing this. Its ridiculous.
Absolutely agree this is why I cancelled ,
I primarily watched Prime Videos BECAUSE they were ad free. I canceled my Prime account as soon as Amazon sent out an email regarding the addition of ads. If I shop now at Amazon, which is less, I wait until I need enough stuff for free shipping. I think that all these increases fo more for greater revenue than to add content.
No, I wont pay more to remove ads, I shall just simply unsubscribe. Ads are evil
I haven't seen an ad yet, primarily because I can't find anything worth watching on Prime these days.
They’ve basically given up since LOTR failed. Now it’s mostly identity driven new content. (LGBtQ, Female, Black or any two of those put together)
Then you aren't trying. Prime consistently has way better movies than Netflix. Even when it comes to recent releases.
@@treytison1444 ?????
Cancelled my prime subscription. Part of the good thing about the prime video subscription service was that it was competitively priced, binge watching, and no adverts. Prime you still had to pay for some things but they did some good own content. Their minimum spend for free postage also went up a few months ago too. Ads are a step too far 😩
No more free rides? Amazon Prime is already a paid subscription and they have raised the prices over the past couple of years. I think it's time for me to re-evaluate my Prime membership in its entirety.
I am just being sarcastic. They are punishing us because we have not paid enough. Prime keeps going up and Prime video along with their other services aren’t worth the continued paying.
@@CraigsTechTalk I heard Disney+ has ads now too.
@kristalemon4309 they have both ad supported and ad free. When they started it was ad free only. Then the added the ad tier. Same as Netflix.
@@CraigsTechTalk If I have to watch ads then I don't want to pay. There's ways around it. :)
When do the increases ever stop? They don’t once it’s implemented.
Greed my friend.. corporate greed...
I cancelled my prime subscription. I can see the way it's going.
sure
Its all garbage from alibaba anyways...
My attitude is, I know what I want and don't need an ad to entice me to buy something. In fact, I use ads to inform me of what to never buy. You want to interrupt my time then I will purposely never buy your product for wasting my time. Without ads, I could get through more episodes or watch an extra movie or two before I go to bed. My time is valuable to me and since I am not drawn to marketers trying to sell useless crap to me, I will purposely cancel any service trying to extort me for more money when I have already been loyal subscriber for a long time. Don't bite the hand that feeds you or you will starve.
I got rid of Amazon Prime Music and no longer watch anything on Prime Video due to this.
They are pushing subscribers away with trying to monetize what was included for free.
it only started 3 days ago and for me anyway, nothing has had ads yet.
I find myself buying DVD's dirt cheap from ebay now, and can watch what I want, when I want.
It’s the only way to have control of your content. Everything else is just a rental with these digital services.
The whole point of paying a subscription is to avoid ads. I won't be renewing when the current period runs out.
Also, I noticed that the ads were short and infrequent at first but are now intrusive.
I agree. I pay for UA-cam Premium to not have ads. That is a bummer to hear the ads have become that bad.
NOT Paying for add free😡 Amazon makes plenty off me👎
Shit like this is why piracy is still the best available option.
As long as i get a better experience pirating content rather than paying for it, i will not pay for 20 different shitty services.
UA-cam premium the only service I pay for, which I won't ever go back on. The others is a big no no
Just got my prime video ad charges notification here in the UK.
Not paying them another penny.
Also just had a notification from Ring .
Starting 11 March 2024, the price of Ring
Protect Basic will change from £34.99/year to £49.99/year per device.
Last year's rise was £10. so a 100% increase in 2 years.
Nope ring is cancelled now, these companies have no idea how ordinary working people are drowning in increased charging for everything.
But I think they have pushed too hard this time, people will refuse to pay it.
Time to go back to dvd
The ads are literally for the shows on prime, it makes no sense. I get spoiled every time I watch an ad. I watched a 1 hour and 30 min movie, there was over 20 ads never will I use this service again. Back to the FireStick lol
That is ridiculous. Way too many. Peacock tends to do 2 or 3 an hour. Each 60 seconds. I can deal with that. Thanks for watching.
Everything in this world is going to $$hhit and i ain’t taking it no more
i've watched a few things since the $2.99 a month/commercials warning message came on the screen and so far no commercials for me.
Thanks Craig.
Canceled Prime!
F*** that!
I approve of this message. 👍
I will try to use Promotional Credits if I can; usually when I get those I let them expire because they are only useful for media like buying movies or music. Hopefully that is now a possibility.
Just cancelled. I’m not paying more for a degraded service.
Greedy barstewards.
I’d rather deprive them of £100 a year. Every year.
I just keep looking for options that don’t have ads and never pay for any of their services.
not really much left for no ads.
I'm already super upset all my alexa devices force me to keep looking at ads . It's always trying to get me to sign up for apps.
fairly easy to ignore
@@foodini666 how so?
I changed the language from US English to Canada English. No more ads (for now).
@@scotttravis8654
I keep forgetting they've done this, put something on, get presented with an ad, and immediately find something to watch on a different service
April 7th 2024, amazon prime tv shows have 3 ad's every 15 minutes. Bye Bye Bye prime. Thank god for kodi.
That is ridiculous. Thank you for sharing this. I have not watched anything on Prime for a while
I cancelled prime video a couple hours and I forgot I had it I got that email
How about UA-cam Prime? Many movies on Amazon Prime have a comparable price on UA-cam Premium. Both services work fine for me, so I am wondering whether I should "punish" Amazon by just renting my movies on UA-cam.
You have the yearly or annual plan a on stop shop
Isn’t Jeff making enough without charging more for a poor selection of movies. Not happy just going to cancel 😡😡
THEY HAVE THE NERVE TO CHARGE ON US WHEN WE ALREADY PAYING $139 ANNUAL
By chopping it up and making it its own thing, somehow it’s ok. so annoying.
Got a free 6 month Amazon Prime Student. The reason I hopped onto Prime Video and considered pausing Netflix.
3 bucks a month additional (to 0/month in my case) are not that much - but paying for sth that was included before? No way! Got a used Blue ray player for 10 bucks and the library, 2nd hand market, open book shelves have so much to offer.
Going back 20y in time 😂
I grew up watching cable tv in the 90s, so these ads are just normal commercials to me.
I wont pay to remove ads until it works with echo show. so tired of sponsored ads
My freaking Amazon prime sharing just got cut off this morning March 25th 2024
What about the movies i own that i fully bought on amazon?
Those should be fine. I think they would have an uproar if the took away peoples purchased movies. But you never know.
You had me the first part but ads are always bad and I hate them. It’s just big corpo looking for every buck they can take from you
to be honest im absolutely sick of it ! ads are every where today and I mean everywhere games, films, apps, TV streaming services web sites mobile phones and not only this ' video ads that cannot be shut down they are not even subtle anymore they take up literally the whole page its ridiculous!!!!
I go to a web page and no word of a lie it takes me like 5 minutes to start shutting down all the ads before I even start to do anything productive "don't show this ad again" that's a joke 8 times I shut one ad down only today! it came back regardless dam 12 times! I just closed the web page and left..
they say ads help developers I wouldn't mind but today they take the ???? from full screen videos to pop ups that have no option to shut down its just greed where ads rule more and more land they get onger and longer each day !
The ads before a movie does not bother me (hate ads between movies like peacock). What pisses me off is they removed my Dolby Vision and Atmos. I called clueless customer service to find out why i no longer haventhe Doolby and they could not give me an answer. While on phone i asked Alexa how do i get dolby vision vision and atmos on Amazon Prime Video, and the response was to subscribe for the Ad free and pay $2.99. Does anyone know this that its 2.99 for ad free and to get back dolby? This should be a lawsuit for lying to us.
I was already paying Amazon 139 bucks a year for Prime. I refuse to pay an additional $2.99 per month NOT to be bombarded with advertisements, so I canceled Prime and every product subscription I had.
I’m doing the same. Absolutely ridiculous to shove these down our throats after paying $50 then $140 for years. I got so mad when an unskippable ad popped up and I had no idea they were doing this. Of course the ad was left wing sissy crap too.
Hi! Thanks for sharing. I recently reduced my Netflix subscription from $21 per month to $5 and what I thought was ad supported, because, like you I don’t have a big problem with ads. After all a lot of us grew up on ad supported tv. I realized that certain content was just not available at that subscription level. It is getting so expensive to stream, that I am thing about throwing in the towel and give up on all streaming and go with what ever free live tv I could find. They will all lose me as a customer!
We have been with amazon prime for 10 years but this move has really tip the wagon. Today we cancelled our amazon prime, movies and music unlimited, we spent last year £8000 on shopping too which we will spend elsewhere. I chatted to customer service but they would not remove the £2.99 charge. Bye bye amazon and the three alexas we have in our home.
They want an extra 2.98 just to remove ads , I pay for ad free content I will not pay there greedy hike in price,
33% extra a month and depending on who you are and how you pay the increase goes up to 76% extra absolute robbery . Stopped buying off prime as the quality of items is bad ,so this made me evaluate Amazon as a whole.
Cancelled for the 2 shows I did watch it’s not worth it I pay for ad free if I want ads I’ll watch Tv .
They already make a fortune they already have ad streaming services that they earn billions from , rant over .. bye 👋🏻 Amazon
The other day, my dad was like "remember when you paid for streaming BECAUSE it was ad free?" We pay for this sh*t to not have paying advertisements on our screens. We are now paying to watch things that are paying to be there. What the hey. I'm honestly down to unsubscribe to Amazon not only for this but because it's trash. The products sold there are sketchy and often sold from some Chinese kid's basement, and I can't tell you how many times I've received counterfeit products or used products. AND Amazon hikes up prices because it's a monopoly.
Your dad is a smart man. I can remember leaving regular tv to stream. Amazon is pushing it more and more. Other businesses are being more competitive because of Amazon. There are more options now.
If you look at the Amazon accounting books, I bet they are making more money charging companies to provide ads than they are collecting from people turning off the ads but either way it's just a win win for Amazon.
Caught with your hand in the cookie jar.
This was the end of the line for me. Paying 17 bucks a month and they haven’t put any effort into content since LOTR failed miserably l, they want you to pay to sit through and watch ads? Yeah….Have fun with that.
I am with you. Prime has been kind of weak for shows over the past few years. Compared to how they were when they started.
Well, canceled sub. The only reason I paid was for no adds, then they pull this to try and force money out of me. God damn beezos jelly musk has more $ then him. What a nerd.
So you think you are not giving more to the streaming services by refusing to pay for ad free? Actually what you are doing is reinforcing the acceptance of ads and these streaming services are making bank! They will keep increasing monthly subscription fees while continuing to add more and more advertising…and then we have come full circle to why streaming services started to begin with. I personally am disgusted by all of this and I refuse to promote their bottom line through ads. I am leaving streaming services that require ads. It’s a slippery slope people.
Not only did they introduce ads but they removed Dolby Vision + Dolby Atmos. Can only get it with ad free tier now. Might as well just torrent all Amazon's stuff now.
Most of these companies are adding ads in because they give a free trial and that way they can make revenue off the free trial most people will opt for the average service for a few extra dollars. But my question is do they raise the price where it's unaffordable to have the ads removed and people often out not to have their service at all.
I think it depends on the service. HBO is $5 more for ad free. But they also step on the quality of the video for their lowest two plans.
Prime video is the least valuable service you get with a prime account. If I want to watch a movie or tv series, I fire up the old dvd player. There isn't much out I want to watch that is exclusively on a streaming service. Craig, are you old enough to remember when cable first came out? It was billed as a pay service for specialized channels that you wouldn't have to watch advertisements since you paid for the service. That didn't last long.
Netflix currently is 11.99 no ads not 13.99😊👍🏻
I give them enough money. They won’t get anymore from me and Alexa is mostly dead to me. I’m moving away before they make us pay for the plus or ultimate or max. Whatever they want to call it. This means I won’t watch their videos anymore. I can’t stand commercials.
Stopped using Alexa due to privacy concerns, as far as Amazon goes cancelled
Totally BS 🤬
I dobt mind ads until they interup the show... As these companies get greedy ive walked away.... Disney has gone and if this gets worse amazon is next... I also thinking of getting my alexa due to its intrusive.
You are so much better than Linus tech talk idk if it's b/c he became Mr neck beard or if it's bc ur not Canadian but I find your content easier to follow
I called them up and said either they remove the ads for me or I reduce my spending on shopping with them. They refused so now they are getting a 10x reduction in revenue and I've stopped watching prime video too so they're not even making it back with ad revenue. I recommend everyone does the same, call them, tell them what you're gonna do and then cut spending. If enough people actually call and do it they'll drop ads.
I like that you did that. That is a good idea. There are more options to get good deals. They don’t have the market cornered like they once did.
i now only get on prime to get to hbo max which i have subscription on ad free. i will not pay more to not watch ads on prime. i only keep prime to get the free shipping which I've had long before i started watching prime shows.
I am with you on only keeping it for shipping. I am discourage to watch Amazon prime for the ads and the fact they stepped down 4k resolution. Thanks for watching.
I hate ads
I think I might wipe any and all streaming services out of my life and start buying physical media again. There's literally only a single one time paywall with those. I have 4-5 of the big ones and your right, collectively it's ok but separate it's kind of a scam.
All streaming that put ads on their platform.
I have canceled every single one.
Especially prime. The only one that did not create a cheaper ad supported tier. Just put ads to my prime account and tell me I must pay more for what I already had.
Back to ff through cable and my dvd collection will begin to grow once again.
Be well.....
I'm on the same boat screw amazon and thei extra fee, I don't watch prime3 video as I do Max and Disney +
Seem like you work from these companies, you never talked about the fact you already paid and signed up for prime with Ad free service now in the middle of your membership. They should have had it at renewals only not in the middle of a service that you paid a whole year for.
We have canceled Amazon. I’m not paying more for ad free and I’m not paying the same as I have been for ads.
Also the content isn’t expensive. Maybe if they didn’t throw millions of dollars at directors or writers before they even made anything, they would have more money. I’m not paying for Amazon financial mistakes.
The office rocks!
You rock AJ. It’s the best show. Just watched Michael’s last episode yesterday. 👍
I'm not seeing ads here in the UK.
I got an email to say it is coming,
Starts tomorrow for us in the UK 😢 5th Feb
Bet u are now
@@Neddy540yeah sadly lol
I wonder how much more they make from advertisers. companies will just about sell their soul to collect our dollars so they must be paying quite a bit. Just a thought.
for someone who says that you dont mind ads, but complains a lot about ads on the echo screens
i see it completely different. One is a service and one is a change that affects the use of the device. I bought echos before ads ever existed on Echo shows. They added them to my device and there is no way to turn it off.
Streaming services are services I opted into. If I am not satisfied, I push a button and no longer use the service. I would be pissed at Apple If they started putting the same kind of ads on my Apple TV. I spent the extra money for Apple TV for an ad free experience that Fire TV sticks don’t have. That would be changing the hardware and ecosystem I bought into. Services I am flexible with. Thanks for watching.
@@CraigsTechTalk i agree 1000%! just goes to show who the greedy company is... while I do like the "cheaper" option of some Amazon devices over Apple Home, I'd rather pay a little bit more to not be forced to see ads
👍 I think we are all over the ads in one form or another. It is crazy how you have to buy ad free versions of kindles and Fire HD tablets. I pay to have the ads removed from my kindle.
@@viigraphixi just want you to stop. Just stop. Dont attack our host on this channel you need jesus
Didn't Amazon Prime claim to be always ad free years ago?
Yes they did. Thanks for watching.
Easy one, if you don't want to to give Jeff more money then just boycott whom ever has there adverts on amazon prime video.
Why waiting for the advert to be over go coller a bite to eat and a drink or something.
what about adblockers
maybe if you are able to side load an app. But you won't find one in the fire App Store. Thanks for watching.
Ok thought I’d see what ads were like , only had it on 2 hours and the ads are annoying, this is why I pay for ad free streaming but It’s not worth the extra extortion hike of 2.99 per month . Turned off auto renew 10 days left and I won’t be watching anything while there ads on it . Amazon must be loosing a lot of customers
Says Reacher is now charging, what happened to free TV? F them, I'll still buy online store, their TV sucks
Fk tht I got a refund and ended subcription today
$36 a year to your membership I think that’s totally screwed up. The only thing I watch on Amazon prime is the Lord of the ring series and now that is in doubt because I’m not paying extra for it and I’m not planning on watching commercials. It would totally ruin the cadence of the show.currently I get HBO Max with no ads and I’m not paying for a service that has ads
Nope. Not paying extra and I'm not renewing my prime subscription either.
Thanks for sharing. With brick and mortar stores becoming more competitive, because of Amazon, there are more choices for us.
So we now have to pay them for a subscription ON TOP of a subscription? How about I just cancel the whole bloody thing? Money grabbing leeches.
You nailed it, the beautiful subscription within a subscription. More and more people are starting to cancel it all. Local stores and big retailers have become more competitive
Time to get rid of prime
I’m going to cancel my prime membership, first it started with I don’t get stuff delivered in two days sometimes even though it’s in stock at the warehouse from Amazon. Now they want me to pay extra for no ads I think not the way they’re raising us you might as well just go back to cable.
It’s all about money money money, more more more! Makes me so mad that nobody cares about the customer. No wonder people are so unhappy in 2024 😢
There is too much chasing the bottom line to make the stock look good. Customers are secondary
@@CraigsTechTalk it’s a shame isn’t it ☹️. I miss the old days, at least the ads were good in the 90’s 😆
The ads were much better in the 90s.
@@CraigsTechTalk yes, 100%
I rarely watch prime video, but they got Marry My Husband so I’m watching after a long time. I think what upsets me about this ad thing isn’t that part of the reason for streaming? No commercials? So when I see them for something I’m paying for it kind of makes me mad, especially when the streaming with ads used to be the free version.
play a mobile game or bring dishes to kitchen during the big 30 seconds of ads.
Amazon now trying to gouge a few extra bucks from its Prime members. What’s free with these memberships anymore. Even music you’re paying to listen to your favourite songs. There’s nothing special in terms of shipping when you have a Amazon Prime membership. I’m getting tired of being screwed by these big corps. The ads is the cherry on the top for me. I’m cancelling my Prime Membership.
Even Prime Days people are getting screwed. They increase prices prior to the sale and decrease them to what they are throughout the year making you think your getting a deal when in actuality your paying regular price 🤦♂️.
Bezos doesn't have enough money? I'm with you 100% on this! WAYYY too many streaming services with spread-out content. With Hulu plus Live, Netflix, Prime, Paramount+, Disney, Max, etc etc... Plus don't forget the music services like Amazon music, UA-cam Premium (ad-free music video service) and Spotify! I now know why I'm so BROKE! And yeah... I'm giving Bezos enough of my money. I'll watch the ads.
I’m not paying for ad free either.
I don’t mind the ads if they add them at the right time.
Extreme Rant!
F*cking UA-cam!!!
OMG!
They use to have ads at the beginning and at the end of a video but NOW they add them almost every 5 minutes and NOW they add them during live streams!!!
UA-cam is trying to force their viewers to pay for their ad free service and that pisses me off!
If they just kept the ads in the beginning and end I wouldn’t have any issues with it but even if you fast forward a video it’ll show ads after you click play!
I can sneeze and they’ll start playing ads!!! (I’m being ridiculous now)
I do pay for ad free with Disney + Hulu (I have the bundle)
I literally loved amazon because it always was great but now because of ads it won’t even load the ad so I can’t even watch my show so I’m angry before i even can relax and chill. There is too many distractions and things that make me angry in this life. I have adhd too so this infuriates me extremely
I was there with you loving Amazon. But they gave away too much, lost a bunch of money and are now trying to make it up. Too many businesses trying to capture your attention.
@@CraigsTechTalk i just hate ads, they drive me insane plus they are usually twice as loud as the film you were watching 🤦♀️
Remember a time when youtube was free too and no ads? ☹️
Oh I remember.
@@CraigsTechTalk better days gone by, hopefully the best days are somehow ahead of us
Or... Torrents😊 Cause who cares if Bezos goes broke.
FreeVee sucks with how they put adds in . Right in the middle of a good scene
I just got into FreeVee. I actually found, maybe it's just the station I watch, the ads are shorter and fewer than network. I've been watching A Team on that Universe? Action channel. And I watched some of the World Poker channel and liked it. Paramount plus is a pay service and they had three minutes of ads to even get into the show I didn't stick around to see how bad it was during the show.
Prime movies are mostly garbage as it is, and Bezos thinks I want to pay $36 extra a year on top the Prime membership price just to not watch ads every few minutes during a crappy movie, or worse, one that I’m actually focused on watching when the momentum suddenly slams to a stop?
Screw you, Bezos. No more Prime for me after over 20 years. 😠
Probably not going to pay to remove the ads
I was never really impressed with prime and lately ut seems they are bowing to the China Overlords well I guess they saw how well it worked for UA-cam... So my guess is if it dosen't sell (ad free) they will pump more ads in.
If u give me a choose then I'll pay more for a no ad trier service but to make me pay for something I had 6 months years just because fu@&#$@!