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Amazon pulls the plug on Freevee, its free ad-supported streaming service
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this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2024
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I didn't even know it existed
For good reason. It’s basically a speed run of enshittification from day-one.
Amazon has been trying to make sure it can be on all streaming devices as it provides the back end to a lot of other pay streaming channels. FreeVee was probably their Trojan horse to get people Amazon accounts and a service that low end streaming devices would need to serve.