(Reuters) -A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a proposed class action over Amazon.com's decision to begin showing commercials on its Prime Video service unless subscribers paid a $2.99 monthly opt-out fee.

A federal judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit filed against Amazon by disgruntled customers who alleged the company had deceived and cheated them by introducing ads into Prime Video unless they paid extra.

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Amazon subscribers have been arguing for more than a year that the addition of ads to Prime constituted a stealth price hike; a Washington judge has shut the case down.

A federal judge in Washington state has dismissed a class-action lawsuit against Amazon for putting ads on Prime Video. In a ruling issued Wednesday (read it HERE), U.S. District Judge Barbara J. Rothstein rejected the claim that Amazon’s decision to start running ads in 2024 effectively represented a price increase for Prime members.