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[-] MinusPi@yiffit.net 22 points 1 year ago

People lived with it for years with cable.

[-] Carobu@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Cable started out without ads too. That was why you paid for it.

[-] obinice@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Cable wasn't really a thing here in the UK, we're not primed for their bullshit.

[-] aeternum@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

i see what you did there.

[-] BlytheSason@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Sky has a shit ton of ads.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Right, but the business model is totally different. You're paying your cable provider for access, you're not paying to watch the TV shows. The TV shows were financed by broadcaster advertising revenues among other streams of income. With Amazon, you're paying for access and to fund their programs. Ads are just greedy and anti-consumer for a vertically integrated platform like Amazon Video.

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