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  "path": "/2026/03/23/amazon-enshittifies-prime-streaming-with-higher-costs-to-avoid-ads/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-23T12:28:02.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.techdirt.com",
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  "textContent": "Back in early 2024, Amazon announced that Prime Video customers (who already pay $140 per year) would be charged $3 extra every month just to avoid ads that didn’t previously exist. It was just the latest example of “enshittification” in a streaming sector all out of original ideas, desperate to provide Wall Street with impossible skyward quarterly […]",
  "title": "Amazon Enshittifies Prime Streaming With Higher Costs To Avoid Ads"
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