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What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R1] Amazon Prime Video 2/5 · US Excessive Ads: Excessive amount of ads.
2. [R3] Amazon Prime Video 3/5 · US Waaaay too many ads: It's a little ridiculous that when you're simply trying to remember where you left off in a show, skipping around causes ads to play pretty much every time you decide to move to a different point in the episode. I shouldn't have to watch an ad, remember that I'm a few minutes ahead in the show because of an error, and then when I move two minutes ahead be subject to even more
3. [R4] Amazon Prime Video 1/5 · US Too much adds: They put so much adds in the app you’re pretty much forced to upgrade to premium services. 3 min long adds for a 30 mins episode. All of this is getting out of hand.
4. [R7] Amazon Prime Video 1/5 · US Ads: Ads are dumb, Bezos is a money leaching degenerate
5. [R9] Amazon Prime Video 3/5 · US O-O: I really hate the fact that everybody has to pay to watch TV
6. [R12] Amazon Prime Video 3/5 · US Makes no sense that you have to pay to watch kids movie: I gave you a extra star because you can watch YouTube videos without going on YouTube but there’s for some reason a scary show on it that you can watch on kids but yet you can’t watch a SpongeBob Christmas movie without adult and paying and you don’t need to pay for the scary show and the movie is for five and over I would recommend buying i
7. [R21] Amazon Prime Video 3/5 · US Free Trial Still Requires Extra Payments: Overall great and so much content to chose from.. BUT disappointed me. I got the free trail but the movie I really want to watch is still asking to pay. I don’t like when they give me free trail and you can’t even watch everything 😥.
You need to know which of movie is subscribe and which one to buy.
8. [R30] Amazon Prime Video 3/5 · US The Good, the Bad and the UGLY: Good: selection of things to watch or subscribe to. Bad: massive amount of watchable “only if you pay more” for content vs free with subscription content UGLY: bad app code, the continue watching is just wrong, app crashes all the time, horrible algorithm for recommending stuff you would watch…
9. [R13] Amazon Prime Video 2/5 · US App profiles continue watching wrong: When using the app, if I change between profiles, the continue watching continuously only reflects the first profile. So I have to search my shows every time I try using the app. I love watching prime and all the subscribed channels but something isn’t working properly via the app.
10. [R15] Amazon Prime Video 3/5 · US Rewatching Series is Effortful: Especially using the iPhone app, but even the Roku app behaves similarly. Episodes get skipped due to previous position. If you finished an episode, loading goes to <1 min of complete, and a jump ahead shortcut obstructs the rewind bar. Running position (Season + Episode Number) does not update for app reentry. Suggest: a Start Over script that clears watch history
11. [R19] Amazon Prime Video 1/5 · US AI search is trash: The forced AI slop search is horrible, it’s not helpful and doesn’t let me find the movie I want.
12. [R20] Amazon Prime Video 5/5 · US Subtitles bug is back: The subtitles bug via Chromecast is back. It no longer (again) accepts the IPhone caption settings
13. [R16] Amazon Prime Video 1/5 · US Sucks: To the idiot who decided to add the feature where videos auto play under the live TV section, I hope you have diarrhea for the rest of your life. It seems like these developers add random updates in order to rage bait people because there is no way to turn it off, and I doubt someone asked for this feature.
14. [R22] Amazon Prime Video 1/5 · US Incredible… not: The only streaming app that DOESNT allow Picture in Picture. And why does it exit out of a show if you go on another app, like safari for example. Ridiculous
15. [R2] Amazon Prime Video 5/5 · US Great app. I will never delete it.: So, it’s a great app because there is some YouTube channels!! Like, Shiloh and Bros Preston Plays Mr. Beast And, there are kids avatars available. And, there is MURDER DRONES!
16. [R52] YouTube 5/5 · US The best app there is: YouTube since I was a little kid and I love it. It’s helped me so much and taught me so much and changed my life. It showed me so much about history and everything I could ever think about if I was gonna give any money to any app that there is, it would be 200% all the time please YouTube don’t side with China
17. [R53] YouTube 3/5 · US Too many ads: WAY too many ads for one video, especially to the longer videos like every 5 minutes there’s an add and the tiny ad box that appears in the corner when you skip one is just taking away from the experience of watching. It’s getting tiring but overall, I love the app and just see the ads as a little too excessive.
18. [R54] YouTube 1/5 · US STOP with the Shorts push: Why is it that every time I open the app it’s on the Shorts tab and not the Home page??? Horrible idea and you should fire whoever thought of that
19. [R65] Amazon Shopping 1/5 · US Alexa ai slop now forced.: I am not going to support Ai slop. All I want to do is look at results of a search not be forced to chat with a stupid ai. The app is cumbersome, sloppy and freezes often now after the update. Hey alexa, you’re horrible.
20. [R66] Amazon Shopping 5/5 · US Great Work: Now most people have issues with online shopping but this was the most comfortable and reliable way to shop…. 5⭐️s
21. [R67] Amazon Shopping 3/5 · US Terrible Payment System: While it offers many options and stores, getting it to process payment is terrible. I have to submit payment several different ways and there is never a notice which delays my orders. Deliver sucks too. Never a one day or fast delivery.
22. [R68] Amazon Shopping 1/5 · US this is a great app but they got the wrong bed frame for me.: I am writing a bad review because when I ordered the bed it was white and had LED lights but when it came it was all yellow brown color and it looked way more different compared to the bed I bought and it costed $130 just for it to come like this? Cmon Amazon I know you guys can do better.
23. [R82] Netflix 1/5 · US Netflix sucks now: Way too expensive. Realized I haven’t used it like 6 months because there isn’t anything I want to watch! So 30 dollars a month down the drain. Netflix is a money hungry company that doesn’t offer anything good.
24. [R84] Netflix 3/5 · US Why it should be better: I understand that Netflix is quite a nice streaming service, but it tends to remove things from time to time it doesn’t allow things to stay. It’s a streaming service so it should have tons of things and all the movies that they moved should be back on their app. I mean it isn’t fair. It should be more money and become more popular if they added movies the movies that they
25. [R85] Netflix 1/5 · US Horrible user experience if you travel: I travel. A lot. The Ill-considered home network requirements mean I often can’t use the app. I understand that Netflix wants to combat password sharing, but I am NOT sharing and I can’t get what I pay for. Just use a passkey and stop this nonsense.
26. [R86] Netflix 5/5 · US Amazing: So many shows and stuff, y’all even added the Percy Jackson movies, but you better not nerf my goat meliodas, he’s better than all those knights❤️‍🩹
27. [R93] HBO Max 2/5 · US Pay money for late premier. Could invest into something that airs when advertised.: Why are you weeks behind on a show that comes from your production company? When you advertise a show airing on a certain date. You should have it on platform midnight after it airs.
28. [R94] HBO Max 5/5 · US Funny shows: Funny
29. [R95] HBO Max 3/5 · US No more adds: To many advertisements
30. [R96] HBO Max 2/5 · US No comerciales: Muchos comerciales por eso no puedo ponerle las 5 estrellas lo siento
31. [R107] Amazon Music 2/5 · US Stop forcing ads: Sick to death of every single time I start up this app I am forced to click NO THANKS to signing up for your ridiculously priced plan! STOP ALREADY I WILL NEVER PURCHASE IT
32. [R108] Amazon Music 5/5 · US Awesome: I love my Amazon Music, I can listen to anything on it and save my music on my phone and I can listen to my music list in my car and my Alexa.
33. [R109] Amazon Music 3/5 · US Some mistakes (PLEASE FIX THERE KILLING ME): So it’s an ok app but im trying to listen to my katseye an then it doesn’t play pjnky up it plays a random song made not by katseye so please fix this glitch, it sucks i just want katseye.
34. [R110] Amazon Music 1/5 · US Disappointed: I’m very disappointed with this app and coming from Amazon shame on you I am a prime member, first of all I shut off the autoplay and it still plays suggested songs very annoying. Otherwise the app wouldn’t be that bad at all.
35. [R8] Amazon Prime Video 4/5 · US Ads: I don’t mind prime with ads but I also shouldn’t have to rewatch an ad because i rewinded before the ad then have to watch the ad again. 3 times watching 1.5 min (5.5 min)