Prime Video, absolute trash tier, doesn’t even have its own unique URL, because Amazon wants you to go to their e commerce landing page first in the hopes that you’ll end up seeing something you want to buy.
The search sucks, oh you wanted to stream this show you are already paying a monthly subscription for, let me put these options to buy or rent it at the top of the search results just in case you want to pay extra to for it.
The content is also usually shite and why is my landing page filled with previews of content I have to buy extra subscriptions to view?
It’s one of the few platforms where continuing from where you left off just fucks up every now and then, of you were watching season 6, episode 4, now you click play and it starts Season 1 episode 2 for reasons.
Heck even when you navigate to the show and select the season you want to start watching, it shows you shit to buy first and then you have to make a extra click of the episodes sub section to actually be able to start playing the video.
Paramount+
Every time I have tried it either via a free trial or on someone else’s account, it refuses to load any of the content I want to see. The other services all suck in various ways, but at least they fucking work.
That’s the one I immediately thought of too. We use my girlfriend’s sister’s account to binge classic shows, but it routinely plays a completely different episode than the one we selected. You also can’t pause most episodes, so you have to exit the episode and then start it back up again and find wherever you left off. And on top of all that they show ads for their own shitty shows before every episode – dude we’re watching Andy Griffith, clearly we’re not the target audience for your G-rated “Friends” knockoff.
I hate them all, for much the same reason. They’re all packed full of ads, even if you’re paying top dollar (I count auto playing trailers for shows I’m not watching). Search is buried on purpose to make you look through the content that they want you to watch. They only have one or two good shows running new episodes at a time, so you have to bounce around between subscriptions, or forget about them and run up your credit card bill. Good shows get canceled all the time due to obscure metrics. Stremio + addons beats them all by a lot. If you want me to pay for streaming, make it worth it again.
In terms of functionality and UI, my vote goes to Paramount+. They’re lucky I love Star Trek so much.
Their app is such hot garbage. I have had to pirate episodes because my app gets frozen on ads and refuses to play an episode.
All of em 🏴☠️
