Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV

Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.world – 825 points –
Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV
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I will absolutely employ a 0 tolerance policy on forced ads.

If I have paid for a service to be ad free and you throw me an ad, I won't pay for your service.

Hell, I'll back-charge through my creditor and say I paid for a service that was not delivered.

Careful of backcharging large companies. They'll remove your account from all their services. Looking at you Google.

That product tying is reason #3821 we need to start enforcing anti-trust law again.

They don't delete anything, though. They just deny YOU access to it.

Not your computer, not your data. The cloud is just a buzzword for someone else's computer. Always run local backups.

You get banned retrospectively too. I got banned from Adsense in 2003 and magically got demonetised from YouTube in 2006.

I’d look through the fine print if it says that they won’t serve ads. Cause I doubt that.

'we reserve the right to change..... (this, that, and everything else)'

The fine print didn't say I won't do a chargeback either. Two can play this game.

I'd try to get a refund first unless you never plan to shop on Amazon again.

I meant it as a counterpoint, not something I'd actually do. Especially considering I don't shop in such places in the first place. But yes, you're obviously correct.

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