Having now cancelled all of our streaming services, we watched something locally last night.No ads.No nagging to install updates*No fighting with the interface to select language and subtitles.No random buffering issues.No random disappearing of conten...
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Having now cancelled all of our streaming services, we watched something locally last night.
No ads.
No nagging to install updates*
No fighting with the interface to select language and subtitles.
No random buffering issues.
No random disappearing of content that was available minutes before on the same IP.
We just... watched a thing, and went to bed.
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️ Bliss.
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Brett Sheffield (he/him)replied to Brett Sheffield (he/him) on last edited by
* seriously, Amazon was getting ridiculous. It would wait until we started, then interupt the program and destroy the buffering to prompt for an update. In one show it did this 3 times. Updates to Amazon's app take at least 20 minutes.
This has meant at least twice on a pizza night where we bake pizzas and sit down to watch a film, sitting eating for 20-30 minutes while watching an update happen.
Never again Amazon. I'd rather sit in a darkened room than use your streaming service again.
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@[email protected] the thing that makes me upset is how much control we've given up to these streaming companies.
Once upon a time broadcasters didn't know who or how many people were watching (short of Neilson boxes/families). Now they're tailoring ads to you based on what and how long you've watched each episode.
It's even a little disappointing how the general public lays back and accepts it as normal.
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Brett Sheffield (he/him)replied to julian on last edited by
@julian Agreed. The day we saw our first ad was the day we cancelled our subscription.
The UX has a lot of other issues too. When a company with that much money gets it that wrong it has to be deliberate. I don't understand why they want to maximally irritate their customers or how that benefits them, but it must do. No one is that incompetent.
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Paul_IPv6replied to Brett Sheffield (he/him) on last edited by
amazon: "let's see how many different ways we can soak customers for revenue before they object..."
