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by humaniania 1410 days ago
After Amazon bought IMDB it became more about advertising for movies and less about being a database. Same thing as when Warner Bros and Universal Studios (via its parent Comcast) bought RottenTomatoes. Now everything brags about it's RT rating when it's coming from 2 movie studios...
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tyingq 1410 days ago
>less about being a database

I do really like the "X-ray" feature in Amazon Prime, which I assume is partially powered by IMDB. I miss it when using other services like HBOMax, Netflix, etc.

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411111111111111 1410 days ago
RT at least still has viewer ratings. You predictably can't sort by them but it's at least an indicator if the reviewer and viewer score are on completely different heights.

And you've got trakt.tv now too, not sure if anyone owns that

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cobbaut 1410 days ago
> After Amazon bought IMDB it became more about advertising for movies and less about being a database.

Yes, but several years later, since Amazon bought IMDB back in 1998!

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