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Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Amazon replacements:

  • Audiobooks: Libro.fm (no DRM)
  • eBooks: eBooks.com (specifically, their DRM-free section)
  • Shopping: basically any major online retailer's website
  • Electronics: System76 (for gaming machines), ThinkPenguin (for FOSS machines)
  • Groceries: your local grocer, lol.

As for video streaming, it's going to take a breakup of the Big Tech monopolies via revival of anti-trust laws to fix that. Hear the first chapter of The Internet Con (skip to 2m5s) by Cory Doctorow for more on that.