• ikidd@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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.

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      1 year 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.

    • ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      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.