1y ago

Amazon Prime Video does a redesign that "leans heavily on AI recommendations."

Amazon Prime Video's New Look Hopes to End Decision Paralysis

Apparently their regular algorithm wasn't getting people as addicted as they want.

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Regular algorithm is a piece of shit that won't even reliably show me new episodes of a series I'm currently watching, so at least it can't get much worse.
- Narrator: And then it got worse.
- I suppose it would be too much to ask for just an alphabetical list of titles...
  
  Of course, then you could see how few titles they actually have.
  
  Maybe even let you filter by genre in a meaningful way, instead of each returning the same list
It'd be nice to just see what I can watch. Rentals, live TV, and things that require a separate subscription all seem to be haphazardly mixed together making it very difficult to tell what is included in the subscription
- By design to get you to pay for more services.
  
  I understand dark patterns and their objectives. Unfortunately for Amazon it just means that the only reasons I ever open their App is for The Boys and Invincible and also why I wouldn't pay for it

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