Mark Of The Bezos

What gone bad a-morning,
Can't come good a-evening, whoi!

What gone bad a-morning,
Can't come good a-evening, whoi!

Every day carry bucket to the well,
One day the bucket bottom must drop out.

Every day carry bucket to the well,
One day the bucket bottom must drop out.

The Continuing Enshittification Of Everything

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads starting January 29, with an option for customers to pay an additional $2.99 per month to avoid the ads  —  Earlier this year, Amazon announced plans to start incorporating ads into movies and TV shows streamed from its Prime Video service …

Johanna Romero / PhoneArena:   Amazon tells its Prime Video subscribers that ads are coming on January 29th, unless they pay extra

Emily Price / PCMag:   Amazon Rolling Out Ads to Prime Video on Jan. 29

John Callaham / Neowin:   Amazon Prime Video will show ads during its movies and TV shows Jan. 29 unless you pay extra

Madeline Berg / Business Insider:   Commercials are coming to Amazon Prime Video next month

Zachary Cimaglio / CBR:   Prime Video Adding Ads to Streaming Content, Announces Ad-Free Option for Added Fee

Joe Wituschek / BGR:   Amazon Prime Video will start running ads on January 29th unless you pay more

Derek Strickland / TweakTown:   Ads coming to Amazon Prime Video in January, ad-free will cost extra

Paris Marx / @parismarx@mastodon.online:   The end of low interest rates is showing us what the tech companies really built over the past 15 years and it's nothing like what their PR hacks once promised.  —  Everything is more expensive, more invasive, and far less innovative or improved than they led us to believe.  —  https://www.theverge.com/...

Luke Bouma / Cord Cutters News:   Amazon's Prime Video Will Add Ads For All Subscribers In January - Here is Everything You Need to Know

Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire:   Ads coming to Amazon Prime Video movies and TV shows starting Jan. 29

Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo:   Amazon Will Inject Ads Into Prime Video Starting Jan. 29th

Brian Dear / @brianstorms@mastodon.social:   @Mediagazer  —  At this point, not worth fighting the steaming services over their ads.  They were always going to do ads.  —  Let 'em run ads.  The MORE ads the better, I say.  Because it may just wind up being just what the market needed to spike demand for Blu-ray discs of everything once again. …

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:   Amazon Prime Video starts showing ads in January unless you pay $2.99/month extra

Tom Warren / @tomwarren:   and so it begins. Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th. Movies and TV shows on Amazon's streaming service will start getting broken up with ads in January — unless you're willing to pony up an extra fee each month https://www.theverge.com/...

Peter Sterne / @petersterne:   Amazon Prime Video is adding ads starting Jan. 29. Ad-free version will be extra $3/mo on top of cost of Amazon Prime. 

@driskal:   @tomwarren So we've basically come full circle. Streaming is exactly like cable now. Probably just as, if not more expensive

@tvgrimreaper:   ICYMI Everyone that gets Prime Video now will get ads, unless you affirmatively choose to pay more to escape them. Prime Video will go from 0% of subs with ads to (wild-ish guess) >80%. @janerationx@mas.to:   LOL, what a load of horseshit.  🏴‍☠️ for the win.  —  https://www.theverge.com/...

Happy New Yr., sucker-ass chumps!

Those of you who pay attention may remember that this reporter's philosophy is that everything's made of shit & we're all dying. If you paid no attention above, these are the most pertinent statements:

The end of low interest rates is showing us what the tech companies really built over the past 15 years and it's nothing like what their PR hacks once promised.  —  Everything is more expensive, more invasive, and far less innovative or improved than they led us to believe.

So we've basically come full circle. Streaming is exactly like cable now. Probably just as, if not more expensive

At this point, not worth fighting the steaming services over their ads.  They were always going to do ads.  —  Let 'em run ads.  The MORE ads the better, I say.  Because it may just wind up being just what the market needed to spike demand for Blu-ray discs of everything once again.

Fuck you in the mouth w/ my fist, Bezos. I would advise every patriotic, anti-monopolistic American to carry an ice-pick & be ready to let the air out of the tires of any Amazon delivery vehicle that's impeding traffic or parking.