{"id":1018440,"date":"2026-07-02T08:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018440"},"modified":"2026-07-02T09:52:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:22:06","slug":"amazon-sued-in-australia-over-prime-video-ads-extra-fee-for-ad-free-streaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/02\/amazon-sued-in-australia-over-prime-video-ads-extra-fee-for-ad-free-streaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon sued in Australia over Prime Video ads, extra fee for ad-free streaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s consumer watchdog has taken Amazon to court, alleging the company unfairly introduced advertisements to Prime Video and forced annual Prime subscribers to pay extra to continue watching ad-free, despite having already paid upfront for the service. <\/p>\n<p>The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has filed proceedings in the Federal Court against Amazon Australia, alleging the company&#8217;s Prime subscription contracts contained unfair terms that allowed it to make significant changes to the service without compensating customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s consumer watchdog has taken Amazon to court, alleging the company unfairly introduced advertisements to Prime Video and forced annual Prime subscribers to pay extra to continue watching ad-free, despite having already paid upfront for the service. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has filed proceedings in the Federal Court against Amazon Australia, alleging the company&#8217;s Prime subscription contracts contained unfair terms that allowed it to make significant changes to the service without compensating customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018465,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018440\/revisions\/1018465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}