If you have a Kindle Fire and you watch videos somewhere where you don't have wi-fi, then Amazon are about to put a stop to it.
I connected mine to the internet for the first time in months this week to download a book, and was bemused to find that, at the same time, Amazon took it upon themselves to install Prime Photos.
That bemusement turned to fury when I discovered that trying to play my "Personal videos" now gets a message saying "This video cannot be played at this time. Please try again later". I never buy any video downloads from Amazon, so I don't know whether it applies to them as well, but it means that none of my MP4s which I've copied into the Movies folder play any more.
If I connect to the internet, then they will play, even if I put the tablet to airplane mode immediately. However, switching the tablet off means that it needs to be online again before they will play.
So it's no big deal as long as you near wi-fi, but if, like me, all you want to do with your Kindle Fire is to watch videos on long train and plane journeys, then you're screwed.
A complaint in the form of feedback for Prime Photos resulted in a polite and apologetic but unhelpful message explaining that Prime Photos cannot be uninstalled, and a promise to pass my feedback "to the relevant department". It then rubbed salt in by giving guff about how important customer satisfaction is to Amazon.
Fuck off, Amazon. I'm so pissed off that this piece of shit was installed without my agreement, and that Amazon have just made my tablet useless to me.
So if you watch videos offline, and haven't connected to the internet recently, for the love of God don't.
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totallypissedoffwithAmazon · 26/04/2017 01:51
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