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Amazon pulls the plug on Freevee, its free ad-supported streaming service (www.androidpolice.com)
submitted 8 months ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I didn't even know it existed

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 17 points 8 months ago

For good reason. It’s basically a speed run of enshittification from day-one.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That shit was even bad if you had it ad-free through Prime. Watched a show there and it would have a half second black screen at the place where an ad would be. Sometimes in the middle of dialogue.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 10 points 8 months ago

I got annoyed because it would crash and then when you would be placed at the start and have to fastforward but then when you got to certain points in the fast forward it would flip to commercials. to damn annoying.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ah, the European method of placing ads in American shows anywhere, instead of using the spaces designed in the American shows.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 6 points 8 months ago

Yeah, the trouble was that this show was explicitly produced for Amazon. Maybe the writing was already on the wall and that is why they didn't put in any effort.

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

So they renamed IMDB TV to FreeVee, then when they added commercials to Prime video they moved various content to FreeVee. Now they are getting rid of FreeVee and including it with Prime, but for free? I guess that's better, but confusing.