Has anyone watched Amazon Prime without paying the fee to go ad free?

[LearnedHand]

I haven’t yet and wondered how intrusive the ads are.

[Ocelot II]

1. They aren't too bad, not as bad as network tv.

Still, it's irritating that these little fees keep piling up.

[LearnedHand]

2. Thanks, and do the ads interrupt the shows or occur in between?

[3Hotdogs]

17. Give 'em a couple'a months.

The number will escalate.

[Voltaire2]

3. I stopped watching. Really it wasn't a big loss.

There was almost nothing on prime I wanted to watch to begin with as they apparently spent their entire production and acquisition budget on the massively awful LOR prequel. Hulu has much better content, soi I will put up with ads there, but it is also my last choice for watching. I hate ads. I hate ads so much that I will start a basketball game on Youtube TV and then go watch something else, and then come back and watch the game while fast-forwarding through the bullshit. I assume Prime, like Hulu, does not allow you to skip through the ads.

[LearnedHand]

5. All my streaming services are the ad-free tier except Amazon

I didn’t jump on that subscription because fuck them: I already pay to shop with them. I also watch very little on Prime but there are a few things I want to watch. I was wondering if it was worth the extra money to go ad-free. AppleTV and Hulu are vastly superior services IMO.

Also, I haven’t watched broadcast/cable/satellite TV in decades, so I have ZERO tolerance for ANY commercials.

[Scrivener7]

10. Nice trick I have discovered for Hulu. Cancel in November because it seems like the past few Decembers they

offer a special deal where you get a year for 99 cents a month.

Last year I forgot. When the price went back up, I told them I was cancelling. They said, "Would you stay for $2.99 a month?" Which I did.

[LearnedHand]

11. I bundled Hulu ad-free and Disney ad-free to get a significantly lower monthly cost

Not sure that was better than paying yearly or negotiating like you do. I tend to subscribe and stay with streaming services, so I never think of playing the old cable TV trick of threatening to cancel to get a better deal. Sigh.

[Scrivener7]

12. I tend to get one streaming service, watch what I want on it, then cancel and move to another, cycling through

them. It keeps the costs way down.

But Hulu is so cheap now I keep it all the time.

[CousinIT]

4. I have. So far, they're not bad. Network & Cable is 50% ads. AP so far is maybe 10% n/t

[LearnedHand]

8. Do the ads interrupt shows/movies or occur in between?

[Scrivener7]

6. Wow. In addition to the $14.99 a month, they're now charging a fee for no ads?

What a ripoff. And the way they're doing it is like the frog in the boiling water. Right now the ads aren't "too intrusive." I guarantee they'll get progressively more intrusive and more frequent.

People know you can still get free shipping from Amazon without paying the Prime fee right? You just have to order more than $35 and it takes a day or two longer to get to you. So, four or five days instead of two or three.

[Fiendish Thingy]

7. The ads are very minimal

And just at the beginning of the movie, not during. Mainly ads/trailers for other shows/films. 1-2 minutes max.

[LearnedHand]

9. Thanks!

[Easterncedar]

14. I gave up watching Northern Exposure

The ads interrupted. Not all shows have ads.

[LearnedHand]

16. Ugh thx for the detail

I’ll see how my tolerance is for this. I’m predicting very low.

[bif]

13. I basically only watch Netflix, Kanopy, and Hoopla

So it's a non issue with me.

[LearnedHand]

15. Same for me, sort of

I’m watching Dark Winds now on Hoopla, and I get ad-free Netflix for almost nothing through T-Mobile. My local library provides Hoopla and I have a non-resident library card from another state, and they provide Kanopy. I do subscribe to other streaming services, but I’m still not paying what I did for satellite tv when I dropped it back in 2008 or so.

[bif]

18. There''s so much great content on Hoopla and especially Kanopy!

I currently have 260 movies in my Kanopy queue!

[LearnedHand]

19. So, a week's worth then?

JK. Does your library limit the number of titles you can check out each month? I don't know if Kanopy has a limit but Hoopla allows only 10 checkouts of anything per month.