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If you're paying for Twitch Prime, but still getting ads, then what are you paying for exactly? Less ads?

Sadly I think it's what happens when companies are pushed to generate more and more profit each year. So you you start just a few ads to the paying users, because: "They won't mind one short ad" and then suddenly it's all ads all the time.

It does make you wonder exactly how ads are so profitable and which products are paying the whole thing. It almost can't be electronics, because ads apparently help finance TVs and phones as well.



>If you're paying for Twitch Prime, but still getting ads, then what are you paying for exactly

One free monthly sub + all the free games and DLCs. Cost me 4€ a month and I also have access to the Amazon Prime Video catalog. It's a very very good deal.

There is Twitch Turbo which removes ads but it's an entirely different product https://www.twitch.tv/turbo


Isn't Twitch Prime just the extras you get alongside a regular Prime subscription? I'm pretty sure Twitch Turbo is the no ads thing.


You're correct, though until about 2019 or so, Twitch Prime included no-ad viewing


Ooooh, I forgot that Amazon owns Twitch. That makes more sense then.




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