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Is anyone still planning on watching Prime video once Amazon starts inserting advertising in early 2024? I very rarely watch anything on there now, and I certainly won't watch anything once advertising starts. There is nothing that has enough value to me to pay another $2.99 a month for no advertising.
I pay the $13.99 a month for Youtube to be ad free, but considering dumping that after the price increase as I watch way too much Youtube when there are no ads.
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I don't like the idea of paying even more to avoid ads, but sheesh, I save so much money in shipping being a Prime member, it's still worthwhile for me.
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We don't watch it now. Every few months I spend some time looking for something I want to watch, give up and go back to the free junk we get with an antenna on the TV. Not about to pay extra.
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Regardless of the pay or not to pay for advertising, I find Prime to be one of the best deals around - free shipping, Prime TV and Prime music. The ads I've encountered in things like YouTube are trivial compared to OTA or equivalent TV ad time/hour. I notice the TV programs have their ad times well synced now so channel hopping during a commercial doesn't help as much as it did.Originally Posted by Pat Germain
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I'm not thrilled with the idea, but I have noted that the ads on FreeVee (which seems to be Amazon's beta test for the "feature") are relatively unobtrusive compared to those on broadcast or cable channels. If there was a free option for Britbox that included that level of ads, I'd consider switching to it.
(At present there's no option to remove them...we'll see how I feel once I'm caught up on 'Bosch: Legacy'.)
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For decades we accepted free TV with commercials. Then we got pay TV with no commercials. For some reason now a lot of people expect free TV with no commercials; not gonna happen. But I do agree it's annoying when I'm already paying for a streaming service and they want me to pay more to avoid commercials.
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Obviously, somebody has to pay the bills but have you noticed how much time/hour is spent on commercials now compared to the shows years ago? It's more!
Then you buy a big screen TV and for some period of time part of the screen is covered with more frequent and larger pop-up ads.
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The market is now much more fragmented than in decades past when there were only three networks. Now everyone is scratching and clawing for small groups of viewers.
I never had a problem with pop-up ads on my TV. Perhaps I don't watch channels that do this.
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I don't watch much on Amazon but I do subscribe to Brit box. I use Amazon a lot and think their current fees are a bargain.
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I only use Prime when they offer me a month for FREE, or $1.99. Happens every couple months. Always cancel three days before renewal, and just in case, print out confirmation of cancelation. Other times, if I need something quick, get kids to order it for me. The one Item I needed overnight, got lost for a week, so I was glad I didn't pay for Prime. According to tracking, rode around in four different delivery trucks, any one of which could have stopped at house, based upon their delivery routes.
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I do this also... wait until they offer Prime to me free or dirt cheap. I sign up, then cancel right before renewal.
Happens about every 5-6 weeks.
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I spend the money that I don't spend on stuff like cigarettes, soda, alcohol, and overeating enough to be overweight on things like this and don't even think about it.
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Ha-ha! That's my philosophy as well. I also don't gamble. I'm amused by people who tell me how much they won gambling because I know they lost ten times that or more before winning. Oh, and then they lose what they won because they were, "Gambling on the casino's money". Dude, if you won the money gambling, it's your money and you lost more of your money.
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However, you don't get the sense of accomplishment that I get when I fly over Las Vegas knowing I helped build a city in the desert.
On a more serious note, spend your money on what makes you happy - just stay within your budget. I consider vacations to be somewhat of a waste of money, when they are over you generally have nothing but a picture and a souvenir T-shirt and all the problems you were escaping are still there.
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Not watching TV in any form is a real win-win solution to all of these problems. I really can't believe our lives are poorer without it. -- I guess I don't know for sure, as I quit years ago, but nothing I've heard about is very tempting.
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