“We aim to have meaningfully fewer ads than linear TV and other streaming TV providers. No action is required from you, and there is no change to the current price of your Prime membership,”
The double-speak is relatively subtle, but it’s always interesting to see how much work they put into gaslighting their customers:
“No action is required from you…”- yes, Amazon hopes we do nothing, but Amazon unilaterally changed the assumptions underlying agreement, so “no action” is an acquiescence to a materially worse reality for us and a better one for Amazon.
“…there is no change to the current price of your Prime membership”- yes, no additional dollars are required because Amazon is now selling our time and attention, but that is still a new “fee” we are paying.
The double-speak is relatively subtle, but it’s always interesting to see how much work they put into gaslighting their customers:
Pretty gross, Amazon.
The enshittification will continue until profit margins improve
Enshitification won’t stop until the frogs realize that they are being boiled to death and jump out of the pot.
Or until we get back to 0% interest rates that these companies could get for the past 10 years. The free money dried up!
Hey, I want free money, too.
The enshittification will continue until the demand for profit is removed*
…demand for constant growth is removed.*
Lol
What is this mythical profit margin/amount that companies would be willing to accept? There is no limit to corporate greed…