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Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free (www.theverge.com)
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[–] UselesslyBrisk@infosec.pub 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So you absorbed a bunch of alien conspiracy stuff while you were sleeping?

[–] UselesslyBrisk@infosec.pub 1 points 10 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.

[–] CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's actually kind of hilarious

[–] UselesslyBrisk@infosec.pub 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah it is in a way. Thankfully it doesn’t leech into my main Amazon shopping reccomendations.