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.
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.
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.
It started when Amazon bought them
Ew I didn’t know they were owned by Amazon. Gross.
If only they were!
I’m only there to look at actors and see what they’re in or view their actor relationships (siblings, spouses, kids, etc.)
Enshitification
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 🎀
At leeast tvtropes.org and imfdb.org are still ok. :)
I hit the same wall as OP yesterday but found myself on tvtropes instead which now has about 20 tabs open.
Can the IMDb be scraped? Not necessarily for the reviews, but for the titles, actors, and so forth. Kind of wish Anna’s Archive had done that instead of Spotify.
Any website can be scraped if you want it badly enough.
However, tmdb is a significantly less shitty alternative, even if data isn’t always as good. It also has a free API for non-commercial use, so FOSS apps can use it for free.
The Move Database is great. Yes the info is sometimes not quite as good as amazon, but it’s way more open than IMDb. You can edit info, and the api is great. I use it in the cli tool I built for myself.
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Because Amazon bought it
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
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
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.
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.
see also Letterboxd for just reviews
Also https://thetvdb.com/
There’s a really nice TMDb compatible Android app called ShowCase, btw.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
