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Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by flop_leash_973@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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As if the Prime Video app couldn't get any worse.

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[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 133 points 6 months ago (18 children)

I actually get Prime TV series from the high seas even though I'm subscribed to Prime. It's simply better UX this way.

[–] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Same here. I have Prime but only for their Amazon Prime delivery services, not for their video or audio thing(Amazon refuses to unbundle their stuff in my country). To make it worse, Amazon Prime Video, Atleast last I tried didn't go to full HD(or even 720p) on Firefox on Linux, so there is no point to it.

And there is hardly an ethical concern to it. I am paying for a service but getting my hands on the material; just via a different supply chain because Amazon sucks.

[–] ares35@kbin.social 8 points 6 months ago

didn’t go to full HD(or even 720p) on Firefox on Linux

you will run into similar restrictions on other services that use drm.

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