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Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As if the Prime Video app couldn't get any worse.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They're all really bad. Because every one of them, despite being a paid service, wants to cram the same content down your throat over and over again.

A lot of them have vast libraries of actually interesting content but you'd never know it because the only way you can find them is in the search function.

They want to jam sports down my throat over and over, even though I don't give a single fuck about watching sports of any kind.

I appreciate being notified of the newest content, but also I don't need to be reminded every single time I open the app, or watch a preview every time I start or finish a completely different movie or show. If I scroll by it 6 times, I'm probably not interested...

Also 99% of the time I do not want to watch your recap of the last episode, or a preview of the next episode, I don't care about BTS crap, I don't want to watch the intro again when I'm on the 37th episode, and I don't want to watch the credits. So maybe instead of a "skip x" button, just add a "watch x" button? I can't imagine I'm alone on this, or even in the minority. Also your timestamps are fucked, so even if "skip x" actually appears, I often have to skip forward 10-20 more seconds for some reason?

Why when I finish a show does it disappear from the UI entirely?

Why are there no filters by genre? Should this not be an absolute basic function of a media library?

You have a "for you" section but how could you possibly know what kind of content is "for me" when you've never even asked?

You wanna sell paid content? Great. Just give me an option to filter it at my leisure. Again I'm already paying you...

Right now the HBO skip button is broken entirely on my machine.

YouTube is a whole other pile of shit that I would totally pay for were it not bested by a handful of nerds working for free building clients with vast improvements in functionality.

I could go on but I digress.