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by HeXetic 2449 days ago
> no commercials

And yet Amazon Prime insists on showing me ads for their other shows before I can watch the one I actually tapped on to watch. Or the next episode of the show I'm watching. It really diminishes the value a lot.

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Amazon's streaming platform feels like being at a used car lot, lots of dark patterns trying to get you to buy or rent, steering you away from included content.

I vastly prefer the experience of Netflix.

On my TV and Chromecast the audio is also not in sync with the video. The user experience in regards to currently watched TV shows is extremely weird and I have to search them all the time with my TV remote on a bad, full-sized on-screen keyboard.

Prime Video simply feels like a bad Chinese knockoff of Netflix.

HBO does the same thing, for every single episode you watch.
It only shows ads on programs that aren't theirs which is even now nefarious.