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Amazon pulls the plug on Freevee, its free ad-supported streaming service (www.androidpolice.com)

submitted 3 days ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz 31 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I didn't even know it existed

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

For good reason. It’s basically a speed run of enshittification from day-one.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 3 days ago

Amazon has been trying to make sure it can be on all streaming devices as it provides the back end to a lot of other pay streaming channels. FreeVee was probably their Trojan horse to get people Amazon accounts and a service that low end streaming devices would need to serve.