Amazon's Prime Video will start serving ads on January 29 unless you pay extra

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(Not trying to defend/excuse fking Amazon lol) They're easy to skip, though. I imagine these will not be skippable.

Also, people have paid to have Plex play them trailers for years, as it gives a cinematic experience.

It's not for me, an ad's an ad.

As far as I'm concerned skippable ads are the same thing as any other ad. I use auto play for a reason and it's because I don't want to fuck with the remote every episode.

If anything they are worse because they make you become aware enough of the ad to make the connection to physically push a button skip it. When HBO Minimum Quality added them I dropped it. When Paramount (We can't build a functional app) + and Disney Pus (Not a typo) added them I finally built a media server and rejoined the high seas after 20 years. I'll never go back.

When I had Plex play trailers, it was only ever before movies, with trailers for movies. Seeing it every time you watch an episode of a show is too much.

Wish the overly aggressive product placement were skippable, e.g. in Reacher:

I am down for hyper on-brand, clearly denoted, clever/humorous sponsored segments. StyroPyro was able to advertise a desk this way. So well integrated, honest, and relevant, I didn’t skip even though I don’t need a chemical-resistant adjustable standing desk.

If I remember right styropyro was just doing product placement with flexi-spot. After Herman Miller bought Fully and tripled their prices, I had to switch desk vendors at work and I had already started using these guys. They're good cheap AF, Chinese standing desks. LTT was shilling for them about 6 months ago. I honestly don't care who makes the desk I'm just sick and effing tired of having to spend $800-$1200 a desk for generic Alibaba parts.

I don't understand why would I watch a trailer of the movie I'm about to watch. It doesn't make any sense to me

The Plex feature is trailers for other movies, like when you go to the cinema.