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This is how Amazon is too with the movies and tv shows you bought. There's no way to search your owned library anymore. You just have to page through it to find

This is how Amazon is too with the movies and tv shows you bought. There's no way to search your owned library anymore. You just have to page through it to find what you want. And your library is hidden away behind a tiny little unlabeled icon in the upper right corner. And, to make matters worse, you have things like the Charlie Brown Halloween Special, which Apple now owns the rights to. You cannot in any way search for the version you bought from Amazon. The only result Amazon shows is the result that would require you to pay for Apple TV. So you can either look through all of the stuff you bought from them, or find the original email for the purchase and click the link in there.

oh_my_goodness 1y ago
It's true, and it sucks. But at least I didn't pay Amazon $1800 for hardware first.
delecti 1y ago
How are you browsing your Amazon content? I see search bars on the 'All Content' [1] page, and also on each individual page, like my movies and shows [2]. Though it seems like the interface is pretty rubbish in the Prime Video section [3], so maybe that's where you're looking? [1] https://www.amazon.com/hz/mycd/digital-console/contentlist/allcontent/dateDsc https://www.amazon.com/hz/mycd/digital-console/contentlist/a... [2] https://www.amazon.com/hz/mycd/digital-console/contentlist/video/dateDsc/ https://www.amazon.com/hz/mycd/digital-console/contentlist/v... [3] https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/mystuff/library https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/mystuff/library
- strictnein 1y ago
  Roku based TVs and their mobile app. And the website - #3 in your list above. Never seen those other two links, and they don't show up when you're trying to watch things on your tv.
ReptileMan 1y ago
Torrent sites have amazing search ... just saying
- loloquwowndueo 1y ago
  Yeah shame it’s hidden behind 50 pop-under triggers and infectious scam ads. Literally unusable without an ad blocker. (Which you should use anyway but it means they’re not a great choice for Joe user on his unprotected windows pc)
  - coldtea 1y ago
    >Yeah shame it’s hidden behind 50 pop-under triggers and infectious scam ads. You don't have to click those.
  - petralithic 1y ago
    One, people should be using uBlock Origin as you mentioned. Two, there are many search engines without such ads. Three, qBittorrent has a search right inside the client, there is no need to even access the websites to perform searches.
    - wafflemaker 1y ago
      And the client has optional web UI, so you can order a download from your phone and watch it on your TV (through jellyfin or plex).
  - ChoGGi 1y ago
    Better ads with free stuff than ads with paid stuff.
  - lukan 1y ago
    A bit deeper into the scene, there are no ads anymore. And the biggest problem for most people in the west, is rather just using torrents without a VPN will get you lawyers letters quite quickly. But Joe average can use youtube downloader without danger.
sugarpimpdorsey 1y ago
> you have things like the Charlie Brown Halloween Special People made fun of me for continuing to hoard physical media all these years. I predicted this hellscape might come one day. Man I love being right.
- waste_monk 1y ago
  I appreciate the attempt, but have never seen the point personally. That is, many physical media collectors do it to have nice box sets to display, or in an attempt to have off-line copies of media, but I have never met anyone who goes to the effort of ensuring long-term readability - which is understandable, it is a huge hassle. Unless you are copying the content to new physical media every so often it will eventually rot and become unplayable. For example, for optical media the expected lifetime is only a couple of decades depending on the type of media [1]. I believe commercially pressed DVD and blueray are somewhere around 10-20 years. [1] https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/conservation-preservation-publications/canadian-conservation-institute-notes/longevity-recordable-cds-dvds.html https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/con... , see table 2.
  - LtWorf 1y ago
    I think you're thinking of the CD-R
  - fukka42 1y ago
    [dead]
  - Cpoll 1y ago
    You're citing a report about recordable CD and DVDs. Movie DVDs should be expected to last much longer than that.
    - blihp 1y ago
      Not necessarily as even the factory produced optical discs have had issues with de-lamination, oxidation etc. Of course a lot of that had to do with companies cheaping out on manufacturing in order to make that last tenth of a cent of profit as they tend to do.
randycupertino 1y ago
> This is how Amazon is too with the movies and tv shows you bought. There's no way to search your owned library anymore. You just have to page through it to find what you want. And your library is hidden away behind a tiny little unlabeled icon in the upper right corner. This happened with (amazon owned) audible now too. When you try to search your own library instead it shows you books for sale. Even if you search for a book you know you already bought in your own library it will promote different versions of the book you don't own and try to see you those instead of showing you the one you own. It's incredibly frustrating and really manipulative and really sucks!
- cameldrv 1y ago
  Look kid, buy something or get out!
- b112 1y ago
  I pirated a lot when I was younger. Downloaded movies, books especially. Back then, ebooks were barely a thing(early 2000s), and scanned/OCR copies were the only way to get most books to read on a device. I even contacted a few authors and sent them money directly via paypal. But then the market matured. I bought what I could on Amazon. Exported to epub to read as I pleased. Then the Kindle app became horrendous. Now exporting is not a thing. So I just pirate books again. It's too much effort otherwise. And on top of that, if people will only lease me a book, and not sell it (Amazon), I'm not paying either.
  - someguyiguess 1y ago
    They’re stealing from us. It’s only fair we steal from them.
    - happymellon 1y ago
      I'm not stealing, I'm just training an AI.
      - 1y ago
m-schuetz 1y ago
I've canceled Amazon Prime precisely due to this issue. All I wanted was to browse the videos that are included in the subscription, but instead I'm bombarded with videos that I need to pay extra for. Which made me recognzize that the subscription is useless, so I'll watch videos at other streaming platforms.
- bombcar 1y ago
  You used to be able to see “free with prime” but that’s nearly impossible to find; “free with ads” works better. The local library works much better still
catlover76 1y ago
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dangus 1y ago
This analogy to Amazon is why I submit the idea that customers don’t care and expect advertising. Look up the brand perception of Amazon. It’s one of the highest in the business including high trust scores. High trust scores, for a company that sells counterfeit products! Perception is not reality. Your average consumer (I.e., complete dumbass) barely recognizes advertisements and often reports enjoying them when they do recognize them. I can’t count how many people tell me that they see products advertised to them in Instagram that are exactly what they wanted/like. When Steve Jobs ran Apple it was a niche premium computer company who had customers with above average incomes and education levels. It was different time. He died more than 10 years ago. That’s not exactly what Apple is today. iPhones are used by over half of all Americans. You can’t really buy a decent computer that’s cheaper or a better value proposition than the previous generation MacBook Air $550 Walmart special. As a side note, I would note that Apple Maps already has “ads,” because it has a Yelp integration. I think this whole thing is a part of removing that and bringing the same functionality in-house. I think you’d be insane not to monetize Maps with Apple being the size that it is. It costs a huge amount of money to operate as a free service, and your median customer expects ads to be there. If you want that niche, discerning customer experience, buy a Framework or System76: Linux has the same marketshare now that Apple had when Jobs returned to Apple.
- AnthonyMouse 1y ago
  > Look up the brand perception of Amazon. It’s one of the highest in the business including high trust scores. High trust scores, for a company that sells counterfeit products! Perception is not reality. Amazon for most of its history has had an extremely generous return policy. People don't trust them to send something good, they trust them to take it back if it's not.
- pjmlp 1y ago
  It is still kind of niche in many countries whose population can only dream of US salaries, and will keep that way as Apple will never give up on their margins.

oh_my_goodness 1y ago

It's true, and it sucks. But at least I didn't pay Amazon $1800 for hardware first.

delecti 1y ago

How are you browsing your Amazon content? I see search bars on the 'All Content' [1] page, and also on each individual page, like my movies and shows [2]. Though it seems like the interface is pretty rubbish in the Prime Video section [3], so maybe that's where you're looking? [1] https://www.amazon.com/hz/mycd/digital-console/contentlist/allcontent/dateDsc https://www.amazon.com/hz/mycd/digital-console/contentlist/a... [2] https://www.amazon.com/hz/mycd/digital-console/contentlist/video/dateDsc/ https://www.amazon.com/hz/mycd/digital-console/contentlist/v... [3] https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/mystuff/library https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/mystuff/library

strictnein 1y ago
Roku based TVs and their mobile app. And the website - #3 in your list above. Never seen those other two links, and they don't show up when you're trying to watch things on your tv.

ReptileMan 1y ago

Torrent sites have amazing search ... just saying

loloquwowndueo 1y ago
Yeah shame it’s hidden behind 50 pop-under triggers and infectious scam ads. Literally unusable without an ad blocker. (Which you should use anyway but it means they’re not a great choice for Joe user on his unprotected windows pc)
- coldtea 1y ago
  >Yeah shame it’s hidden behind 50 pop-under triggers and infectious scam ads. You don't have to click those.
- petralithic 1y ago
  One, people should be using uBlock Origin as you mentioned. Two, there are many search engines without such ads. Three, qBittorrent has a search right inside the client, there is no need to even access the websites to perform searches.
  - wafflemaker 1y ago
    And the client has optional web UI, so you can order a download from your phone and watch it on your TV (through jellyfin or plex).
- ChoGGi 1y ago
  Better ads with free stuff than ads with paid stuff.
- lukan 1y ago
  A bit deeper into the scene, there are no ads anymore. And the biggest problem for most people in the west, is rather just using torrents without a VPN will get you lawyers letters quite quickly. But Joe average can use youtube downloader without danger.

sugarpimpdorsey 1y ago

> you have things like the Charlie Brown Halloween Special People made fun of me for continuing to hoard physical media all these years. I predicted this hellscape might come one day. Man I love being right.

waste_monk 1y ago
I appreciate the attempt, but have never seen the point personally. That is, many physical media collectors do it to have nice box sets to display, or in an attempt to have off-line copies of media, but I have never met anyone who goes to the effort of ensuring long-term readability - which is understandable, it is a huge hassle. Unless you are copying the content to new physical media every so often it will eventually rot and become unplayable. For example, for optical media the expected lifetime is only a couple of decades depending on the type of media [1]. I believe commercially pressed DVD and blueray are somewhere around 10-20 years. [1] https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/conservation-preservation-publications/canadian-conservation-institute-notes/longevity-recordable-cds-dvds.html https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/con... , see table 2.
- LtWorf 1y ago
  I think you're thinking of the CD-R
- fukka42 1y ago
  [dead]
- Cpoll 1y ago
  You're citing a report about recordable CD and DVDs. Movie DVDs should be expected to last much longer than that.
  - blihp 1y ago
    Not necessarily as even the factory produced optical discs have had issues with de-lamination, oxidation etc. Of course a lot of that had to do with companies cheaping out on manufacturing in order to make that last tenth of a cent of profit as they tend to do.

randycupertino 1y ago

> This is how Amazon is too with the movies and tv shows you bought. There's no way to search your owned library anymore. You just have to page through it to find what you want. And your library is hidden away behind a tiny little unlabeled icon in the upper right corner. This happened with (amazon owned) audible now too. When you try to search your own library instead it shows you books for sale. Even if you search for a book you know you already bought in your own library it will promote different versions of the book you don't own and try to see you those instead of showing you the one you own. It's incredibly frustrating and really manipulative and really sucks!

cameldrv 1y ago
Look kid, buy something or get out!
b112 1y ago
I pirated a lot when I was younger. Downloaded movies, books especially. Back then, ebooks were barely a thing(early 2000s), and scanned/OCR copies were the only way to get most books to read on a device. I even contacted a few authors and sent them money directly via paypal. But then the market matured. I bought what I could on Amazon. Exported to epub to read as I pleased. Then the Kindle app became horrendous. Now exporting is not a thing. So I just pirate books again. It's too much effort otherwise. And on top of that, if people will only lease me a book, and not sell it (Amazon), I'm not paying either.
- someguyiguess 1y ago
  They’re stealing from us. It’s only fair we steal from them.
  - happymellon 1y ago
    I'm not stealing, I'm just training an AI.
    - 1y ago

m-schuetz 1y ago

I've canceled Amazon Prime precisely due to this issue. All I wanted was to browse the videos that are included in the subscription, but instead I'm bombarded with videos that I need to pay extra for. Which made me recognzize that the subscription is useless, so I'll watch videos at other streaming platforms.

bombcar 1y ago
You used to be able to see “free with prime” but that’s nearly impossible to find; “free with ads” works better. The local library works much better still

catlover76 1y ago

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dangus 1y ago

This analogy to Amazon is why I submit the idea that customers don’t care and expect advertising. Look up the brand perception of Amazon. It’s one of the highest in the business including high trust scores. High trust scores, for a company that sells counterfeit products! Perception is not reality. Your average consumer (I.e., complete dumbass) barely recognizes advertisements and often reports enjoying them when they do recognize them. I can’t count how many people tell me that they see products advertised to them in Instagram that are exactly what they wanted/like. When Steve Jobs ran Apple it was a niche premium computer company who had customers with above average incomes and education levels. It was different time. He died more than 10 years ago. That’s not exactly what Apple is today. iPhones are used by over half of all Americans. You can’t really buy a decent computer that’s cheaper or a better value proposition than the previous generation MacBook Air $550 Walmart special. As a side note, I would note that Apple Maps already has “ads,” because it has a Yelp integration. I think this whole thing is a part of removing that and bringing the same functionality in-house. I think you’d be insane not to monetize Maps with Apple being the size that it is. It costs a huge amount of money to operate as a free service, and your median customer expects ads to be there. If you want that niche, discerning customer experience, buy a Framework or System76: Linux has the same marketshare now that Apple had when Jobs returned to Apple.

AnthonyMouse 1y ago
> Look up the brand perception of Amazon. It’s one of the highest in the business including high trust scores. High trust scores, for a company that sells counterfeit products! Perception is not reality. Amazon for most of its history has had an extremely generous return policy. People don't trust them to send something good, they trust them to take it back if it's not.
pjmlp 1y ago
It is still kind of niche in many countries whose population can only dream of US salaries, and will keep that way as Apple will never give up on their margins.