On June 2, 2026, Amazon notified Prime members by email that, effective July 2, 2026, the music benefit bundled with a Prime subscription will begin carrying advertisements...
Amazon Prime Music already had a major enshittification in its past. It used to be that it was essentially a catalog of music that you could listen to and make playlists and such. Then they changed it so that you couldn’t exactly listen to the songs you wanted to, and instead you had to listen to the Amazon playlists or stations and your only real controls were the shuffle button, as I doubt the “like” button really did anything.
Amazon Prime Music already had a major enshittification in its past. It used to be that it was essentially a catalog of music that you could listen to and make playlists and such. Then they changed it so that you couldn’t exactly listen to the songs you wanted to, and instead you had to listen to the Amazon playlists or stations and your only real controls were the shuffle button, as I doubt the “like” button really did anything.