Anyone who subscribes to Amazon Prime can watch many films for free thanks to Prime Video. But that will change on February 5th: Amazon will supplement the offer with advertising. You have to pay for advertising freedom. But some, such as the consumer advice center, want to take legal action against it.
Thanks to Amazon Prime, you can watch a variety of videos for free thanks to Prime Video. But that is changing now. Because Amazon makes adjustments and supplements the offer with advertising and offers a paid upgrade without advertising.
When will the change come and how much will it cost? On February 5, 2024, starting next week, Amazon will integrate advertising into Prime Video. To avoid having to see advertising, you can change your subscription. Amazon charges 2.99 euros per month for this in Germany.
Consumer advice center sees violation of consumer law
The Federal Association of Consumer Organizations (VZBV) wants to file a lawsuit against the online mail order company Amazon. The VZBV reports this in a statement. The VZBV had already warned Amazon and now wanted to file a lawsuit:
How does Amazon react? Amazon does not understand the criticism of the new model. ZDF reports that Amazon declared that it had fulfilled all legal obligations. Customers were informed that there would be advertising and that there was alternatively an ad-free version with an additional charge. And every customer can cancel their subscription at any time.
More about Amazon: A gamer buys a new graphics card on Amazon and instead gets the wrong GPU several times. But the second time he is very lucky and keeps the “wrong” model:
Player orders AMD graphics card on Amazon, receives the wrong model twice – but the second time he can hardly believe his luck