The amount of repetitive ads is one thing but the truly annoying part is the inconsistency of the delivery of the streaming service. Constant stoppages and long pauses is incredibly frustrating. S... See more
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Love the content but the app has so many glitches and is extremely frustrating to use. Usually the only to get back to your homepage is to turn the smart tv off at the wall and restart I don't know wh... See more
This could be great but everytime you reopen the app you are bombarded with ads even if you’ve just watched some. SBS was once ad free but now this sours what could be a good experience
Trying to watch the Eurovision. Ads way toooo long and toooo many. Obviously everyone is logged in to watch and their streaming services is not handling it well. Freezing every 2 mins. Absolutely disg... See more
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The strange habit of saying place names…
The strange habit of saying place names with what I assume they think is the local accent is weird. Most of the countries speak an entirely different native language to English so clearly they wouldn't be saying that word at all, let alone with a local accent.
29 October 2023
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Clickbait style titles a huge turnoff
An Aussie expat in the UK, SBS was always my go-to option for local news stories. But for some bizarre reason, SBS has adopted a strange clickbait format for their titles (eg. "Here's what happened next"), exactly like those found on tabloid/sensationalist news sites. This, in my opinion, destroys all of their credibility as a reliable, nonpartisan news site. Hoping this is only a phase...
24 April 2023
Unprompted review
Jayde 680872 amazing fast service and a…
Jayde 680872 amazing fast service and a really lovely lady to speak to . From speaking to her within 24 hours the issues were sorted . Highly recommend
22 February 2023
Unprompted review
Devolved into click bait and video sound bites
SBS online news used to be my go to news source. It was the first boomark I'd open each morning.
But then they started to shift from reading articles to mostly video snippets (if I wanted to watch news I'd turn on the TV or use YouTube)
Then in the past couple of weeks they decided to adopt the ABC online news format ... aka, click bait titles. I REFUSE to read any rubbish that resort's to that. Seems even the decent news sites have decided to race to the bottom of substandard quality reporting. I'd expect that from Sky News, not you!
So now, first thing I do is open up SBS, see that the first article (or video) title is click bait and thus, I back track again without even reading anything.
28 August 2022
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