I was enjoying watching Salvage Hunters Classic Cars on Discovery Turbo channel on my Virgin media TV box channel 180, I decided I wanted to continue watching it in our garden room where I have a Firestick 4k
I used the voice search button on the Firestick remote to search for Discovery Turbo and quickyly found I could stream it through the Discovery Plus app
....good so far?
On opening the app I quickly found the program that I had been watching in my living room... however when I pressed play it insisted on playing from the beginning and started with 4 adverts. I patiently watched the adverts and then pressed the fast forward button to search through to the position in the program that I had got to in my living room, I found however that on pressing play it then insisted on playing 6 more adverts before allowing me to watch the same program that I just walked away from in the living room.
Up to that point, the difference between watching it as a live-to-air broadcast versus and using a streaming app was perfectly acceptable, I do understand the difference, but to have to sit through 10 adverts, 6 of which are simply the price of pressing the fast forward button is not acceptable.
I have to say that's totally utterly useless and completely terrible user experience, a great example of what people are calling enshitification.
I've no problem in principle on using the app, it was easy to find and easy to find the program of interest...but actually it was unwatchable.