• @roofuskit@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Yo ho yo ho.

    I don’t understand how people paying for prime can stand that crappy prime video UI anyway.

    • @echo64@lemmy.world
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      16211 months ago
      1. it’s basically fine and unoffensive ui to 99.9% of people
      2. people see it as functionally free because they bought prime for free delivery
      3. People don’t know how to pirate
      • @rizoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        6111 months ago

        I’m deep into the seven seas but I still use prime because a family member pays for it. Its a decent enough ui and has some live stuff I can throw on to keep kids entertained. However, I’ve already added the shows I watch on prime to my jellyfin server just because this change is going to make me not want to use it anymore.

        • Overzeetop
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          111 months ago

          I weighed anchor despite paying for Prime for years. For one, you never know when they’ll drop a show, and two I prefer all my media in my polled interface.

          I ended up dropping Prime two years ago because Amazon simply can’t hold up their end of their 2 day bargain. I live in a college town and when the school year starts their delivery time stretches to nearly 2 weeks. The rest of the year it fluctuates between 3 and 7 days. That’s not Prime in any way. Of course, without prime, note they wait 3-6 days before even shipping my packages so everything is a week to ten days. OTOH, Walmart - though having a smaller selection- is being me next day service on about 60% of my orders and two day on the rest …for less than half the annual fee.

          My only lament is the weird Chinese electronics/components Amazon sellers stock FBA. It doesn’t take me too long to get to $35, but I do miss the $5 impulse buy of small packs of arduino actuators or pneumatic push connectors when inspiration strikes.

      • LazaroFilm
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        2911 months ago

        Yep. I don’t consider it as a valuable streaming platform. If they removed it from the general prime I would not buy it separately.

      • /home/pineapplelover
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        211 months ago

        I can understand 1 and 2, although, for 3, even though, most of my (nontechie) friends don’t know how to pirate, they know how to look up grey streaming sites like 123movies, sflix, fmovies, etc

      • @CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee
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        111 months ago

        I can’t agree with #1. The interface is that of Amazon’s regular storefront and it often mixes paid media in with the free stuff or has stupid stuff like seasons 2, 4, & 6 being free while 1, 3, & 5 are paid. Maybe it’s different in the TV apps, but the browser version is atrocious.

      • @tacosanonymous@lemm.ee
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        111 months ago

        I’m a shameless sailor but my wife has it for the free shipping.

        Their menus are ass but I really like the actual player ui. Love pausing and seeing who is in the scene.

    • @ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7711 months ago

      The player interface is excellent. Being able to see who the actors are in each scene is one of my favorite UI features.

      I agree that finding a thing you want to watch is meh at best. Especially because they mix in rentals, purchasable content, and prime content all in the home interface window.

      That said, yo ho matey.

      • @JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world
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        1311 months ago

        They also have a ton of subtitles and audio options. Like a shit ton.

        Meanwhile Netflix most times doesn’t even have subtitles in one or more of the official languages where I live. And for sure they could have more, considering where they operate, they just choose not to.

        However prime UI sucks for splitting shows between seasons so they get recommended multiple times. It just makes no sense

      • @hesdeadjim@lemmy.world
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        311 months ago

        Poster might be describing how fucking awful Prime arranges shit on a Fire stick. Search taking you to specific episodes rather than to the show. Seasons split up into mini seasons 201, 202, 203, 204. Kids shows are the worst, sometimes the seasons are split into different show listings.

        It’s truly impressive how a huge corporation can build the shittiest UI of them all.

    • aard
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      1411 months ago

      When I still was paying for prime (cancelled it last price increase) I was pirating any prime videos as that was easier than dealing with the shitty prime video UI.

    • @Jackthelad@lemmy.world
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      711 months ago

      Not to mention the shockingly bad picture quality.

      The 4k stuff isn’t terrible, but anything that’s in HD is bloody awful.

    • @Windshear@lemmy.ca
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      411 months ago

      I originally started paying for prime for the free shipping. Prime video is a perk as far as I’m concerned. I haven’t re-evaluated it in a long time though to see if it’s worth it. I do order a ton of stuff on amazon since I live 160km from the nearest city.

    • gregorum
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      211 months ago

      I pay for Amazon prime. The only time I watch Prime Video is every once in a while I wonder: is Stargate: Universe as terrible as I remember? And then I try watching it and remember that it is. 

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        11 months ago

        I honestly thought it wasn’t terrible and would have benefitted from fleshing out the rest of the story. It was definitely a huge departure from the styling of SGU and Atlantis but not horrible on its own.

    • @urandom@lemmy.world
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      211 months ago

      It’s slightly more convenient than sailing, considering it’s attached to my unlimited photo backup

    • kratoz29
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      111 months ago

      The UI had a “recent” glow up, it was way worse before.

  • @Tosti@feddit.nl
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    14311 months ago

    The moment each show got a pre-reel for another Amazon show this was clearly the path they where taking.

    Already cancelled a good 6 months ago.

    • nicetriangle
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      Yeah I thought that was a pretty obvious attempt to ease people into it. So this news doesn’t come as a shock. If anything I’m surprised it took this long.

  • @ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
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    11 months ago

    “We aim to have meaningfully fewer ads than linear TV and other streaming TV providers. No action is required from you, and there is no change to the current price of your Prime membership,”

    The double-speak is relatively subtle, but it’s always interesting to see how much work they put into gaslighting their customers:

    • “No action is required from you…” - yes, Amazon hopes we do nothing, but Amazon unilaterally changed the assumptions underlying agreement, so “no action” is an acquiescence to a materially worse reality for us and a better one for Amazon.
    • “…there is no change to the current price of your Prime membership” - yes, no additional dollars are required because Amazon is now selling our time and attention, but that is still a new “fee” we are paying.

    Pretty gross, Amazon.

    • @RufusFirefly@lemmy.world
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      1011 months ago

      I don’t stream much but being disabled, I can’t get to the store so I do order stuff from Amazon. What I’ve seen in the last few years is an influx of Chinese sellers with tons and tons of garbage and all of the reviews are completely worthless, of course.

      • @Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world
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        211 months ago

        This has been my main observation with Amazon over the past few years. It’s just cheap knockoffs that have gamed the system. It’s frustrating to shop there and a dice roll whenever you order something.

  • @jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    8211 months ago

    The only reason I ever had Prime was free shipping, then I realized as soon as I bundled my orders to be over a certain dollar figure I STILL got free shipping, I kicked Prime to the curb.

    • @villainy@lemmy.world
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      3111 months ago

      For me it was the “Amazon Day” shipping that bundles up a week’s worth of separate orders into one shipping day. Convenient sure but now I’m not getting 2-day shipping… so what am I paying for again? I’ll just bundle up the orders and shipping my damn self.

    • @numberfour002@lemmy.world
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      2411 months ago

      I cancelled Amazon Prime awhile ago when the customer service took a nose dive and I realized too many of the 3rd party vendors were using Amazon as their defective products outlet.

      But I actively and permanently skipped out on an Amazon Prime subscription because they refused to give me a pro-rated refund on the remaining 8-9 months of service after I cancelled. They literally told me that they start with the pro-rated amount, then subtract out the cost of all the “free” movie/show/music rentals as well as all the “free” shipping on orders during the time you’ve had prime, and you only get whatever remains (if anything). Within the first 3 -4 months, I had already accrued enough “free” $5.99 shipping and $3 - $4 rentals that it exceeded the $100 or whatever cost of a prime membership was back in those days, so I got no refund. Bunch of crooks.

      No surprise, I’m completely on board with folks kicking Prime to the curb.

    • Aniki 🌱🌿
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      311 months ago

      You can even get a free week of prime for 2 dollars by just not giving-in which you can then immediately cancel and get ovre and over and over and over again.

  • @morph3ous@lemmy.world
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    Amazon has been progressively getting worse and worse. I was not a member of Prime for the video. It was a nice perk.

    The combination of Amazon making it hard to search for things to buy, the huge amount of low quality crap for sale with confusing descriptions, and this most recent change of putting in place ads if I do not pay an additional fee has led me to cancel my subscription.

    They have taken the enshittification too far. Good bye Amazon. Hello Home Depot, Target, et al.

    • @353247532631@lemmy.world
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      711 months ago

      Sadly, both Home Depot and Target have “marketplaced” their online stores as well, so you have to sort through the garbage just like Amazon.

    • @Got_Bent@lemmy.world
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      511 months ago

      I did a review on Amazon yesterday that said I was shocked to receive a quality product because everything on modem Amazon is post war recycled tin toy quality.

      They have not approved my review.

  • @mlg@lemmy.world
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    7111 months ago

    It’s like a second golden age of internet piracy, and it’s happening because streaming over saturated itself just like cable lmao

  • @chitak166@lemmy.world
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    The mods removed my comment with a link to a great free streaming site with the reason “don’t link directly to pirated content.” (great censorship!)

    I don’t see that in the rules, so I guess it’s one of those “mystery” rules they can just make up on the spot.

    Anyways, you can find free streaming sites here: https://rentry.co/megathread-movies-and-tv#streaming

    I recommend using fmovies. Make sure you have Adnauseam or uBlock Origin installed.

  • @_number8_@lemmy.world
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    5711 months ago

    streaming has absolutely no future. if they keep pulling shit like this it’s going to decline even faster. i suppose it’s more about sucking off advertisers than it is pleasing customers, too…if you’re going to fail anyway why can’t you at least make a positive difference in the world?

      • wagoner
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        It will be like the Netflix exodus, the reddit exodus, etc. They’ll make more money. The best you can do is be true to yourself and not participate if you don’t want to.

        • @gorogorochan@lemmy.world
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          2411 months ago

          Sadly, this. Average consumer, and I don’t mean it as an insult, will not look for an alternative to streaming. All these giant streaming companies are gauging how far they can go to increase the profit margins.

          • @JonEFive@midwest.social
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            I’m a technically savvy average consumer. I’ve just been accepting the enshitification. It feels like every month a different company is raising prices.

            I’m about ready to put on an eye patch and fly the Jolly Roger at this point.

    • @stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml
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      611 months ago

      My prediction is that it all goes back to Netflix when they decide it’s not worth the time and expense to run their own services. They had a nice passive income thing going on there for many years and can have it again if they just license their IP again.

    • @whofearsthenight@lemm.ee
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      411 months ago

      streaming has absolutely no future.

      Streaming isn’t going anywhere, and if anything will likely continue to grow for as cable dies off. It’s just going to consolidate and get shittier (ads) as basically things move back to a model more cable-like. Piracy will probably ramp back to like levels for music in the early 2000’s, but it will remain a niche. Amazon specifically will see blowback for this, but it’s unlikely to move many off of Prime since it’s sort of a tertiary benefit to having a Prime membership, and even if it’s all you got for your Prime membership, it’s still one of the cheapest streaming services.

    • @Zevlen@lemm.ee
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      211 months ago

      We need open source streaming or something… Ya kno?

      Ppl should make their own YouTube Amazon / Google companies or else we shall all perish do to advertisements

  • t0m5k1
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    4911 months ago

    oooh yay more content to collect from torrents. Bye Bye Prime.

  • catbaba
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    4011 months ago

    Pirate services are cheaper and have better apps

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        611 months ago

        Servarr Suite. Netflix interface, piracy backend. Operates over Usenet. Can handle movies, tv, music and ebooks. I’ve been told there are viable workarounds for televised sports, specifically F1.

    • Lettuce eat lettuce
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      1011 months ago

      Planning a build with my friend, we are going 50/50 in for a dedicated Jellyfin server + NAS to preserve all our media.

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      111 months ago

      I’ve got the next week off, migrating from Plex to Jellyfin is on my todo list, but I really like the pipeline I have set up now for … my sailing habit. arrr

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      111 months ago

      I’ve been trying, but for some reason, it will not recognize my HD. I’be reformatted my drive…tried different drives…I don’t know what else to do.

  • @ikidd@lemmy.world
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    3811 months ago

    I have Prime and have never actually used it. I still watch Amazon shows, but I’ll be fucked if I use their shit interface or expose myself to their datamining to do it. Let alone watch fucking ads.

    Piracy is a UX issue.

    • @UselesslyBrisk@infosec.pub
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      911 months ago

      I tried to use their UX. Its bad. And the worst is I fell asleep watching something like Project Bluebook once. And the Prime Reccomendations streamed a SHITLOAD of alien conspiracy content while i slept. It ruined the recs etc. And you cant delete the primary account profile…only the sub-profiles.

      Frankly i only go on it to see what I should maybe load into Sonarr/Radarr at this point. fuck em.

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          111 months ago

          Worse. It went off into other conspiracy subjects like 9/11 and all sorts of crap. Theres frankly a lot of weird stuff on amazon prime for free that i would have never seen had i not dozed off.

          Most of the other apps (netflix, plex, etc) and even the streaming platform (roku) have measures to combat falling asleep. Whether its disabling auto-play (which amazon didnt have) or bandwidth saver features that will periodically ask if you are still there (which amazon appears to somehow bypass or disable, or did).

          These days though i set a sleep timer to shut off the lights and TV at midnight.

    • @ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca
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      I was watching Yellowstone on Prime back in 2021, before they moved it to a premium tier, and the audio was always out of sync when using Prime Video, so I had to adjust the audio sync latency, and remember to switch it back when watching other content. This was on an Nvidia Shield Pro, too, so not some scrappy TV vendor’s implementation of the app on some underpowered SoC.

      After a while, I gave up and just watched it on my Plex server instead. I could also use the Watch Together feature to watch it synchronously with friends, a feature not supported by Prime Video.

      In my case, the piracy (if you call it that, when I was at the time a Prime member) was absolutely a UX issue, not a price issue.