Amazon Prime sucks massive donkey balls

[Rroff]

I popped a film on Prime yesterday as my normal service was down. Immediately greeted with 3 minutes of ads and a warning that my film would contain occaisional disruption from ads. Do they play them in the middle of films now as well? Even after the first 3 minutes I was ready to turn it off. Apparently I pay for this service

Depends - I just clicked on the first 2 movies on the movies screen - Borderlands had a 10 second ad at the start and that is it no ad breaks, clicking on one of the Stargate movies it had a 7 second ad and a voice over of "this movie is brought to you with limited interruptions" but has a 2-3 minute ad break around half-way through.

 

[Adrianr]

Depends - I just clicked on the first 2 movies on the movies screen - Borderlands had a 10 second ad at the start and that is it no ad breaks, clicking on one of the Stargate movies it had a 7 second ad and a voice over of "this movie is brought to you with limited interruptions" but has a 2-3 minute ad break around half-way through.

Fair enough. Hard no from me! I still rinse the shipping part of it though so I guess it'll stay there as a backup for as long as I find that useful.

 

[Rroff]

Fair enough. Hard no from me! I still rinse the shipping part of it though so I guess it'll stay there as a backup for as long as I find that useful.

I spend enough at Amazon it is kind of like scrounging down the back of the sofa on their part wanting another £2.99 to remove ads - my problem with it being they did it purely about their bottom line, no sweeteners for their customers, etc.

 

[Infidelus]

I just don't watch anything on Prime anymore as I hate adverts. I use Comskip to flag the ad breaks and then use VideoReDo to remove them them from programmes I have recorded on the PVR before watching. That's not to say I don't get to see any Amazon programming, but we'll just leave that there.

 

[chrcoluk]

Dont get discovery plus on prime, it has some shows as not available, but are available if you sign up for discovery plus directly (which is same price as on prime).