Just wanted to check some user reviews for a serie, now IMDB forces me to create an account. Such bullshit to read some reviews. No fucking way. Fuck corporate enshittification. Fuck IMDB. Fuck Amazon.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    14 days ago

    I’ve had an IMDb account longer than some Netizens have been alive. I feel like the Fediverse angles older, though, so I should be careful how I word it here. Popular social networks, though? Easy claim. Though, I feel like when people capitalise the B at the end, they might be younger? But I just checked and the B is definitely still lowercase, so I’m not sure where they got that it was upper.

    That said, I got rid of the app a while ago. I just browse to it in Safari (iPhone) or Firefox (Mac) now. The app is trash. I’ve migrated my data to TMDB, but the site’s not quite as good and lacks information, so I use both. (TMDB does not have an app. There’s an app on the App Store, but it’s not official and it sucks. So it’s browser-only for now.)

  • pulsewidth@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    IMDb has been making shitty decisions for a long time. They have always been a business first, community last.

    I doubt RT is much better but I use it mostly. It at least has been consistently the same amount of shitty UI since inception. TheMovieDb.org has a decent ratings system too and is getting more use, but again it’s privately owned.

    I’m not aware of a community run and operated ratings DB that’s got any significant uptake… Would be glad to hear of one if anyone knows.

    • goreverminski@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      I deleted my decades old IMDb account recently and migrated here. Meager protest against Amazon, I know, but tmdb is definitely good enough. Don’t miss a thang.

      • Nangijala@feddit.dk
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        13 days ago

        I dunno, man. Letterboxd is the movie version of goodreads. It’s not a reliable place to find good movies in my opinion. Can be, if you follow reviewers whose opinions you trust, but personally, I only use Letterboxd to catalogue movies I have seen. If I read reviews, it’s mostly for shits and giggles as most of them are shitpostings anyways.

  • daannii@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Yeah I tried to look at an episode list on my phone. Tried to force me to download an app. No way to view the website on my phone.

  • darkdemize@sh.itjust.works
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    14 days ago

    Yep. Found that out a couple weeks ago for the same reason. I’m not giving them my data just to read some reviews. There’s literally no reason to hide those behind a login other than to harvest your info and viewing habits.

    • Donjuanme@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      But they already have your info and habits, that’s all pretty easy to gather with ip logs and cookies. They want even more, and they want you to have to ask them to delete it

      • goreverminski@lemmy.world
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        14 days ago

        Amazon already knows everything about you from your buying habits, down to menstrual cycles and toilet cleaning. What’s your favourite films on top of it?

        (I hate Amazon, finally deleted my decades old IMDb account a while back. Now if only I could rid myself of Amazon… They’ve not fulfilled a single order for me correctly since 2020 so it’s not even the ease that counts any more… One day!)

        • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
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          14 days ago

          Almost anything you can find on Amazon, you can also find on Ebay. And sometimes Ebay is actually cheaper.

              • TiredTiger@lemmy.ml
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                14 days ago

                The collapse of brick and mortar specialty stores in favor of online shopping has left a lot of people with few alternatives, and fewer still after Amazon came along and wiped out a lot of online stores. Unless you can find something locally, you’re usually stuck using some big tech platform or other. eBay isn’t ideal, but if it’s between that and Amazon, I’d pick eBay.

                • goreverminski@lemmy.world
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                  13 days ago

                  Yeah the lack of alternatives is real in many places around the world. A lot of it is just terrifying, dizzying monopolization. I don’t luckily have that issue, but it is undeniable.

        • valar@lemmy.ca
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          14 days ago

          Do it now. You will not regret it. There are alternatives for everything. Including just doing less online shopping.

          • goreverminski@lemmy.world
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            14 days ago

            Preach! For sure, been cutting down as much as possible. It helps that prices are thru the roof and I don’t need a lot.

            I’ve always been a major thrifter, almost everything I own is second hand or hand me down, but I also happen to enjoy collecting, which is where the online element sometimes comes in.

            Don’t get me wrong, I’ve only ordered from Amazon less than a dozen times, never had Prime, and most of my purchases have always been local.

            I honestly love that folks are trying to wean off the toxic teat that is US technocracy. I can jive with it.

          • goreverminski@lemmy.world
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            14 days ago

            If you don’t like the discussion, you can skip it :) I think it’s better to vocalize the issue so we can look at it together.

            I personally boycotted Amazon for several years around the 2020s before resorting to purchases I felt I needed and couldn’t get elsewhere.

            After being burned so many times, I’ve certainly reconsidered my wants and needs overall - if Amazon is the only way, do I need it at all?

            If you don’t think that’s anything, I don’t know what to tell ya.

            • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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              14 days ago

              purchases I felt I needed

              I’m sorry but I feel that’s a weak excuse.
              Especially if you say you only want to quit now because you don’t like their service.

              I see this a lot with americans, they have little motivation or conviction.
              The political situation is a good example.
              They can barely get themselves to do a half-assed one day strike.
              While in Europe we strike for days and burn the streets fif they even think about doing a fraction of the shit your regime does.
              The No Kings BS, not buying from Wallmart for a day and other embarrassing and futile acts will not do anything.
              You have a mentality problem.
              And it’s only going to get worse until you all grow a spine.
              I wish you good luck (sorry if it sounds hard but it needs to be said)

  • Dirt_Possum [she/her, undecided]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    14 days ago

    I’m not sure why other commenters are able to do this without an account, but I also was surprised just now to click on user reviews to see:

    Sign in to access user reviews - See opinions from other fans, or write your own review.

    It’s getting worse and worse with this shit all over the internet. They have fairly successfully already enclosed most of the commons, now they’re building up the walls higher and higher. It’s all about control and of course tracking. I used to use a frontend libremdb.iket.me to access IMDB, similar to nitter/xcancel to read twitter or invidious to watch youtube. But it looks like IMDB made sure that is completely broken now.

    Edit: It’s also a way to make people use the app instead of the website. This too is happening all over, reddit is well known for doing everything it can to force people onto the app, and their specific proprietary app. And it’s for the same reasons I mentioned above. It’s a lot harder to block ads from the app, but viewing the website with uBlock Origin on (and I refuse to browse any of the web without it, personally) you don’t have to view a single ad. And again, control. You have a lot more choice and options using a web browser, not to mention somewhat obscure your identity, even though that’s also becoming more impossible with browser fingerprinting. But using an app let’s them curate exactly what they want you to see, including ads, and also gives them your exact unique identity. I don’t know, I won’t use the app, but I’m assuming you have to have an account to use the app, so of course people on the app aren’t going to get a login wall because they’re already logged in.

    • TiredTiger@lemmy.ml
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      14 days ago

      With some sites, forcing the desktop version will bypass the login screen, but I’m not sure how long that’ll last at this rate.

      With the whole internet enshittifying including search, I think it’s time to start putting out our own websites and creating web rings again.

  • dotAlexX@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I miss the imbd forums and reading about all the different theories viewers had on movies and shows. Enshitification of imbd started when they just randomly one day got rid of the forums.

  • vapor_body@lemmy.ml
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    13 days ago

    hi, just wanted to notify you that this can be circumvented automatically with a https://libredirect.github.io/ linking to an IMDB instance. I just checked and there is at least one public instance available. It has a button in the settings that scans a public registry of them, it can randomly select from them, and there is a button in its popup menu to automatically remove any broken instance + reroll. Often there are some that exist it doesn’t know about, and the whole point is that you can host your own. In fewer words, it’s a collection of private frontends run by a variety of collectives and hobbyists, with a slick addon that works in Firefox Android mobile btw 😎 . This should drastically improve your experience on mainstream websites, especially if you are the kind who “just drops in for second” and slams into a stupid login wall

    Don’t get caught lacking my friend nobody should be browsing default Youtube and IMDB layout. They have themes 🎀