Legitimately pisses me off that when I paid for ad-free on Prime, they just replaced product placement with adverts for Prime videos and Prime TV series. Stopped paying immediately. Over advertising is what led to me no longer watching YouTube, what's the actual point of watching a 5 minute video if there are 2 minutes of ads?
I might not mind if they said it's happening whether you like it or not - BUT - you can choose what ads you see. Then you could be informed/amused/coerced as you prefer.
Speaking of ads, I saw an interesting one. It used the phrase "free after subscription." Well I hope so. Then I realized, 3/4th of the content is paid after subscribing to prime.
So now you pay after you pay and see ads.
Though this isn't really a modern trend. Newspapers and magazines did it first. And television in general.
Time is money so if we listen to an ad we're wasting our time. We'll do it if there's nothing else to do and the next song on the radio will probably be great, that's how it used to be. Everything starts cool then gets enshittified.
I've got lots of boxes of old stuff, records, cassettes, CDs, vhs, dvds. I use internet and pirating a lot for convenience but I'm not throwing physical media out. Also, I have a lot of sports magazines I got when I was a teen. Those I might throw out.
Don't throw any Playboy magazines out, they are worth some money to collectors. My father had them, but someone stole them from our basement before he could sell them.
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Legitimately pisses me off that when I paid for ad-free on Prime, they just replaced product placement with adverts for Prime videos and Prime TV series. Stopped paying immediately. Over advertising is what led to me no longer watching YouTube, what's the actual point of watching a 5 minute video if there are 2 minutes of ads?
I might not mind if they said it's happening whether you like it or not - BUT - you can choose what ads you see. Then you could be informed/amused/coerced as you prefer.
Speaking of ads, I saw an interesting one. It used the phrase "free after subscription." Well I hope so. Then I realized, 3/4th of the content is paid after subscribing to prime.
So now you pay after you pay and see ads.
Though this isn't really a modern trend. Newspapers and magazines did it first. And television in general.
The Radio did it before Television.
But did you have to pay for radio? I guess I should have said cabel. That is ads on things you've paid for.
Back in the 80s and 90s, we had premium channels on cable that were ad-free like HBO and Showtime.
Time is money so if we listen to an ad we're wasting our time. We'll do it if there's nothing else to do and the next song on the radio will probably be great, that's how it used to be. Everything starts cool then gets enshittified.
I want my Walkman back, I got my cassette tapes in a box in the basement. No ads, no bullshit just AA batteries replaced every once in a while.
I've got lots of boxes of old stuff, records, cassettes, CDs, vhs, dvds. I use internet and pirating a lot for convenience but I'm not throwing physical media out. Also, I have a lot of sports magazines I got when I was a teen. Those I might throw out.
Don't throw any Playboy magazines out, they are worth some money to collectors. My father had them, but someone stole them from our basement before he could sell them.
I've still got a couple lying around, one with Erika Eleniak from Baywatch. Classic.
Oh yeah I do have a lot of those. And hustler. My sports magazines are sports illustrated and ESPN, not worth much. Just sentimentally.
Great - subscription rates should be 100x what we they are now. Read books instead.