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.
There’s a really nice TMDb compatible Android app called ShowCase, btw.
IMDb has been trash for like a decade now
Somebody recently acted like I was weird for looking up an actor’s filmography on Wikipedia instead of imdb. But I HATE imdb’s interface and will avoid it every time if I can. Wikipedia might not have every project a person has worked on but it has enough and it’s just presented in a simple table
Letterboxd isn’t a 1-to-1 replacement for imdb, but it does have user submitted reviews and ratings out of 5 stars. I would suggest giving it a shot if that’s primarily what you’re after.
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.)
i had one back in the earliest of days and used to add missing data to credits. i still occasionally catch myself trying to use ‘us.imdb.com’ as its address.
I’ve been using tmdb out of spite since they brought this shitty change in. Less reviews, but I can be the change I want to see, and submit reviews here myself
see also Letterboxd for just reviews
Isn’t tmdb prone to the same enshittification if it gets enough traction?
As is everything that isnt open source
Just checked for 2 minutes and immediately noticed clearly astroturfed fake and AI reviews.
Also https://thetvdb.com/
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.
Is there a Fediverse IMDb equivalent?
Not everything needs to be fediverse.
Anyway, TMDB and TVDB are potential rivals
Not everything needs to be fediverse.
The way things are going, I’d argue otherwise lol
Not sure what your talking about. You can still access IMDB from a browser. You talking about something else?
Yeah I just used it last night.
I believe it’s if you try to read reviews
TIL Amazon owns IMDB?
Amazon also owns IGDB (game database), Goodreads (books), and so on. For music data, they just support MusicBrainz which is open source, open license, and independent database. MusicBrainz have pilot project for books database, but it’s not as good as Goodreads or other DB yet.
I knew about Goodreads but not the others. Enshittification, indeed.
Discogs is inferior to musicbrainz in terms of information.
To me it’s only value is the market place (which is very good)
They also bought out and screwed DPReview.
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.
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
That may well be so, but I have no intention of making things even easier for them.
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!)
Do it now. You will not regret it. There are alternatives for everything. Including just doing less online shopping.
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.
LOL stop crying when you still support them.
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.
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)
Almost anything you can find on Amazon, you can also find on Ebay. And sometimes Ebay is actually cheaper.
As if that’s not a scummy company and Omidyar isn’t a complete POS
americans LOLYea I wouldn’t consider eBay to be a viable alternative here.
They want data. Email addresses and usernames they can sell. Everybody’s doing it to feed the evil beast known as advertising. It’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
Companies sometimes sell their own first-party data, but not nearly as often as people think. If a company has data that other companies don’t have, a lot of the time they’ll want to keep it for themselves, since it can give them a competitive advantage over other platforms.
If Amazon knows what movies and TV shows you like, they’re going to use that data to improve ad performance on their own platforms - suggested content on Prime Video, product ads on Amazon, etc. They’re not going to give it to some other company to use.
The one major exception to that are data brokers. These are companies that only exist to sell data. These are less well known companies. They often use public data and combine it with things like supermarket loyalty data and purchase history.
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.
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.
Fuck corporate enshittification. Fuck IMDB. Fuck Amazon.
With you
It’s gotten more aggressive, but it hasn’t forced me to create an account yet.
E: hmm, the app doesn’t force me to sign in, but I do see that if I try to use a web browser.
You don’t need to log in with the phone app, you’ve already given them everything they need by installing their spyware
They don’t force me to sign in when using browser. Are you from a Western country?
Meanwhile I go to IMDb and am not forced to create an account.
Can you specifically go to “user reviews” using the website without getting a login wall?
