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Amazon pulls the plug on Freevee, its free ad-supported streaming service (www.androidpolice.com)
submitted 10 months ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 73 points 10 months ago

Why watch ads for free when you can pay for Prime and also watch ads?

[–] JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I didn't even know it existed

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For good reason. It’s basically a speed run of enshittification from day-one.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That shit was even bad if you had it ad-free through Prime. Watched a show there and it would have a half second black screen at the place where an ad would be. Sometimes in the middle of dialogue.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 10 points 10 months ago

I got annoyed because it would crash and then when you would be placed at the start and have to fastforward but then when you got to certain points in the fast forward it would flip to commercials. to damn annoying.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ah, the European method of placing ads in American shows anywhere, instead of using the spaces designed in the American shows.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 points 10 months ago

Yeah, the trouble was that this show was explicitly produced for Amazon. Maybe the writing was already on the wall and that is why they didn't put in any effort.

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

So they renamed IMDB TV to FreeVee, then when they added commercials to Prime video they moved various content to FreeVee. Now they are getting rid of FreeVee and including it with Prime, but for free? I guess that's better, but confusing.