They already fucking do.
They just pretend pre-roll trailers aren’t ads.
(Not trying to defend/excuse fking Amazon lol) They’re easy to skip, though. I imagine these will not be skippable.
Also, people have paid to have Plex play them trailers for years, as it gives a cinematic experience.
It’s not for me, an ad’s an ad.
As far as I’m concerned skippable ads are the same thing as any other ad. I use auto play for a reason and it’s because I don’t want to fuck with the remote every episode.
If anything they are worse because they make you become aware enough of the ad to make the connection to physically push a button skip it. When HBO Minimum Quality added them I dropped it. When Paramount (We can’t build a functional app) + and Disney Pus (Not a typo) added them I finally built a media server and rejoined the high seas after 20 years. I’ll never go back.
When I had Plex play trailers, it was only ever before movies, with trailers for movies. Seeing it every time you watch an episode of a show is too much.
Wish the overly aggressive product placement were skippable, e.g. in Reacher:
I am down for hyper on-brand, clearly denoted, clever/humorous sponsored segments. StyroPyro was able to advertise a desk this way. So well integrated, honest, and relevant, I didn’t skip even though I don’t need a chemical-resistant adjustable standing desk.
If I remember right styropyro was just doing product placement with flexi-spot. After Herman Miller bought Fully and tripled their prices, I had to switch desk vendors at work and I had already started using these guys. They’re good cheap AF, Chinese standing desks. LTT was shilling for them about 6 months ago. I honestly don’t care who makes the desk I’m just sick and effing tired of having to spend $800-$1200 a desk for generic Alibaba parts.
I don’t understand why would I watch a trailer of the movie I’m about to watch. It doesn’t make any sense to me
The Plex feature is trailers for other movies, like when you go to the cinema.
Goddddddddd this and HBO. I’m already on your fuckin platform, show me the show. If you REALLY need to push whatever new BS cash grab you’ve got, put it in a new releases section.
if I have to hear about American football against my will, it’s a fucking ad
Gotta love corporate greed.
If you are displaying ads to the user, the ads should pay for their access. If a user is paying for access to a service, they shouldn’t see ads.
Unless you pay extra… or unsubscribe.
Things to do today:
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Pay mortgage - done
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Pay electric bill - done
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Cancel Amazon - and done
Get a VPN after canceling Amazon and download whatever you want. Mullvad is much cheaper than prime video.
You don’t even need a VPN if you live in a country that doesn’t care
Sonarr + Radarr + Transmission-OpenVPN + Ombi + Plex.
For the past ~5 years or so, I’ve had the choice of a polished web UI to pirate any movie or TV show on demand. Up until the past few months, I have still paid for:
- Netflix
- Amazon Prime
- Apple TV+ (as part of Apple One)
- Disney+
- YouTube Premium
… because their products and recommendation engines were more user-friendly for my family and I. Since the pattern of price gouging in the last 6-12 months, I now subscribe to:
- Netflix (cancelling this imminently)
- Apple Music (Apple One cancelled)
I hope the shameless cash grabs result in a mass exodus of users and really hurt these platforms.
I’ve recently reached the point where I could barely afford some of them… if they were as good as they were a year ago. Seems I’m sticking to the Seven Seas and my downloaded music library.
How do I do that on my TV? Is that a thing? I’ve got whatever the cheapest “smart” TV was in Walmart maybe three or four years ago with a Roku attached.
Not terribly savvy in these matters.
Thanks
Edit: Looks like I can do it via my router. I’m away for the weekend, so I’ll look into this next week. Thanks again for the idea
Yes Mullvad does have router configuration files. It’s only like $5.33/mo. Also your streaming catalog changes based on locations. Like for Netflix, Hulu and etc.
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Ya know, I barely shop on Amazon anymore, I should go ahead and cancel that…
(or unless you stop paying at all)
Yarrrrrrrrr I do like this option, lad, lass, or other.
This will cause me to torrent the Amazon shows I want to watch even though I’ll likely still have access to an Amazon account to watch them on.
Welp… this isn’t very strategically sound. Within the same service, they want to motivate me to consolidate shipping to Amazon delivery day or no rush. Guess who’s not using those methods anymore? Fuck you amazon, gonna cost you multiples of that $3 in shipping you greedy fucks.
I do exactly the same. I always opt for the earliest free prime delivery available, even for just one item in my order.
Fuck their Amazon delivery day and No rush shipping. “Delivery in fewer trips to your home” ? I have exactly zero fucks to give - I need my stuff as early as possible as my prime membership will let me, even if at 4 AM in the morning, because I am freaking paying for it.
And “green for the environment” my ass - I know they don’t care about environment, and I don’t care about the gas tank of their delivery vans.
They effed up back in the day by not giving me a client for my phone or my roku. Wanted me to buy their hardware. I already have prime, couldn’t even tell you two movies/shows that debuted on it.
Portable HDD with pirated movies and shows FTW
NAS and Jellyfin when at home brother
Is there even anything worth watching on Prime? I haven’t even looked at it in years.
Not with ads there isn’t.
Undone is probably the only show worth watching on prime, and you can stream it for free here: https://fmoviesz.to/
I quite like Reacher, most people like The Boys, I’ve heard good things about Good Omens.
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It already does this. I frequently get ads for other shows when starting a show on Prime video. I can barely accept the existing ads.
I have been meaning to cancel my Prime membership. Prices are high, shipping hardly gets anything to me on time. Who can find anything on Prime Video with their horrible interface? Not worth the price. Time to put on my pirate’s hat and save a buck.
I plan on cancelling Prime this year.
The only reason I haven’t is that my siblings need to use my account sometimes.
i only use it because it comes with Prime, which I do use, quite a bit.
