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The worst for me is that FX/FXX shows have ads in the beginning of episodes you pay for. Obnoxious.

HBO has done this for a long time on their streaming service as well, which is maybe why Amazon thinks they can get away with it. Super annoying.

I agree. I think they can get away with it because Prime is more than just Amazon Videos.

Ugh. like how some DVDs would try and make you watch ads for the studios other shows.

I've never encountered one of these that wasn't immediately skippable.

Do you not wander around your apartment, performing other tasks, while watching shows? It's difficult to skip an ad when your hands are full of pancake batter - or when you're standing across the room, to have a smoke out the window.

If you have kids they often don't understand that, or they don't quite have the motor skills to click the tiny little "skip" area.

At least you can skip these ads.

Why do I need to intervene to avoid the crap you're throwing at me?

More precisely, if you threw a water balloon at someone's computer in the office, does the fact that they could have moved their computer make it so that the water balloon throwing never happened?