Ad-free entertainment used to be one of the big selling points of streaming services, but as more services including Amazon’s Prime Video add commercials, experts say the glory days of advertisement-free video content are gone.
That is, unless you open up your wallet to higher prices and additional monthly charges to avoid the advertisements that used to be banished to the realm of traditional, linear television.
Prime Video is the latest to make this change in Canada, adding commercials on Monday unless customers pay an extra $2.99 per month.
While the base price isn’t changing if customers accept the ads, the previous advertisement-free version
