Technology
This is the official technology community of Lemmy.ml for all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it.
Ask in DM before posting product reviews or ads. All such posts otherwise are subject to removal.
Rules:
1: All Lemmy rules apply
2: Do not post low effort posts
3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff
4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.
5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)
6: no advertisement posts unless verified as legitimate and non-exploitative/non-consumerist
7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed
view the rest of the comments
I basically never use Prime Video but if i recall correctly there already is ads before after and inbetween shows.
Right now there's a section in prime video that's titled free with ads(only if you have prime). After the change, all prime videos will be in that section.
'free with ads' is literally free to watch, with ads, no prime membership requirement. a prime membership won't shed the ads there now.. or next year. it's a different selection of programs or a separate service (like freevee, aka imdb tv).
I wonder if they'll add ads for the branded channels too or they'll remain as they are.
the 'channels' you pay extra for now? that'll probably be up to the individual provider of that programming and their future deals with amazon to be on the platform.... but the infrastructure for them to add ads is there.
Some of those like Paramount+ already have their own ads