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Rory Mellon

Amazon Prime Video’s new ad rollout is such a disaster I might cancel

Amazon Prime Video logo on a phone being held by someone.

Last weekend Amazon Prime Video managed to do something that I thought was impossible; the streaming service made watching “The Notebook” even more tedious. 

During a recent movie night, I was forced to rewatch the 2004 romantic drama starring a young Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. If having to sit through the whole vapid two hours of this ponderous and melodramatic movie wasn’t painful enough, thanks to a new ads rollout that puts advertisements on all Prime content (unless you pay an extra $2.99 a month), I was also forced to also endure periodic sales pitches for products that are conveniently all sold on Amazon...

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