You may have known of Freevee but not realized it was owned by Amazon. It was like Prime but had shows you could watch for free with ads--like Pluto/Tubi/etc. The thing is, Amazon Prime tacked on advertisements a short time ago unless you pay extra (which, yeah, I won't pay any more than I already do). Hence, what purpose Freevee was serving the company was unclear and it's been decided that Freevee is gonna be shut down with Jeff Bezos himself (assumably) laughing manically as he pulls the plug on the service.
This is unfortunate as I like, "Freemium," content, and Freevee had cool stuff (like, "Jury Duty,") but I also understand why Freevee is of little to no use for Amazon. this isn't like Quibi where people outright rejected a service and it croaked, this is just a case of the water getting too muddy between Prime with ads and Freevee. Pour one out for another streaming service biting the dust in an era where I'd wager more will disappear as there are still too many between paid/free/ads/etc.
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