Warning email from Amazon

[simchris]

Check your spam folder. I received the email yesterday and it was in my spam, while other amazon emails went to my inbox.
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As noted many times earlier in this thread, any legit messages should/will be in the Amazon website under account, then messages. If you got an email and it's *not* in your account/messages, I think that would be highly unusual.
Did you check > https://www.amazon.com/messages.

I also see all my email in real time for my company and amazon is white listed on my server since I buy so much from them on weekly basis and monthly delivery subscriptions. Nothing in spam folder. Nothing in my account messages.

[MrGrackle]

Merely speculating right now but their method of detection is either high volume of data, or that SF downloads audio and video separately instead of at once. Is it possible to instruct the server what your 'playback' specs are and download it as one file? Even at a slower rate, such as 2X instead of full speed?

Was already mentioned that the SF team might be on another break. Maybe Wilson.Wang could look into what is causing the detections. As we may recall, Disney+ was detecting certain activity and blocking IPs for short periods of time.

Some of the stuff I am grabbing right now does not appear to be on the newsgroups.

This is disappointing, as, for example, P+ has terrible bitrates on both audio and video.

[simchris]

Merely speculating right now but their method of detection is either high volume of data, or that SF downloads audio and video separately instead of at once. Is it possible to instruct the server what your 'playback' specs are and download it as one file? Even at a slower rate, such as 2X instead of full speed?

Funnily enough I actually turn off 'turbo mode' for my downloads since it was slowing down my 1GB connection on my main PC, while I was trying to do something else. Turbo really takes over the connection on my Win11 Pro box.

I'm also using P+ via Amazon subscription (not trial), as the direct downloads were wonky. Amazon's pipes are just the best.

[MrGrackle]

Funnily enough I actually turn off 'turbo mode' for my downloads since it was slowing down my 1GB connection on my main PC, while I was trying to do something else. Turbo really takes over the connection on my Win11 Pro box.

I'm also using P+ via Amazon subscription (not trial), as the direct downloads were wonky. Amazon's pipes are just the best.

Turbo mode only affects Youtube. Toggling that switch does not affect speeds on VIP providers.

Another question though: AMZ allows actual downloads from their site for viewing with their own player. Is there a program out there that removes the DRM from that? Should SF receive an update to do so?

[Eureeka1989]

Were you responding to my request? If so, you didn't include the email header. See here as to how to view an email's header using your particular email reader: https://www.hostknox.com/tutorials/email/headers

I am responding to the request. Here is the email header from the email I received.

[simchris]

Turbo mode only affects Youtube. Toggling that switch does not affect speeds on VIP providers.

Another question though: AMZ allows actual downloads from their site for viewing with their own player. Is there a program out there that removes the DRM from that? Should SF receive an update to do so?

Doh. Yes, you are quite right sir. I turned it off while downloading the Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) complete series/movies from a dude who upscaled all the eps for 4k using Topaz, which is where I ran into that issue, not with Amazon / Netflix / Disney / Hulu / Peacock.

[Sebastian001]

On Reddit, someone says he uses TunePat Video Go. The program plays videos for a short time, unlike Streamfab.

[Stan001]

Check your spam folder. I received the email yesterday and it was in my spam, while other amazon emails went to my inbox.

This morning, i finished my queue and cancelled all my add-ons and my US prime membership. If they don't want my money, i will oblige them. Funny thing is that i download WAY more from my Canadian prime than the US one. The US one had a fake name, fake address, and prepaid, non-reloadable credit card.

I will discontinue downloading on my Canadian prime as i do order physical goods on an almost daily basis but will open a "burner" account every 6 months to batch download stuff until they ban that account.

I hate that you had to do that but good for you ! Screw Amazon !
They lost a lot from you, hope it makes some impact !!
I have been mad since they added ads and want to make you pay even more for prime to remove the ads, and prime went up so much in a short time as it is.

If I did not order stuff like I did from Amazon, the prime would have been canceled for me as well.
It might be time to look for another place to order things?!

[jpp72]

I hate that you had to do that but good for you ! Screw Amazon !
They lost a lot from you, hope it makes some impact !!
I have been mad since they added ads and want to make you pay even more for prime to remove the ads, and prime went up so much in a short time as it is.

If I did not order stuff like I did from Amazon, the prime would have been canceled for me as well.
It might be time to look for another place to order things?!

I hope Wilson.Wang finally prioritizes fixing all the Hulu issues. If he does, then I will use Hulu and add Paramount+ & HBO Max to makeup for those Amazon channels. For the rest, Sonarr w/Newsgroups is what i will continue to use. Truthfully, it's so much better than StreamFab if you don't care about H265 and subtitles. It's all automated.

[Stan001]

so should I be worried about this or not?

I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND everyone to take a complete break from downloading with streamfab from Amazon.
Most people got warnings, but others got their whole Amazon account suspended.

How long the break will need to remain is unknown, but I am not risking my one and only Amazon account right now by downloading something via streamfab.

People can attempt to open a "burner" account every X months to batch download stuff until Amazon bans that account.

For now, this idea is not for me. But I know I did it with Facebook and other platforms so you never know.

[Sebastian001]

I hate that you had to do that but good for you ! Screw Amazon !
They lost a lot from you, hope it makes some impact !!
I have been mad since they added ads and want to make you pay even more for prime to remove the ads, and prime went up so much in a short time as it is.

If I did not order stuff like I did from Amazon, the prime would have been canceled for me as well.
It might be time to look for another place to order things?!

Amazon doesn't give a damn if someone cancels their channels. It won't even show up in the statistics. It's a constant coming and going...

[Sebastian001]

Let's see if and what Wilson says about this...
Maybe this will come on Thursday :

6247
New: dingdong module for dingdong porn
New: Trump module for Trump channel
Fixed: An issue where incorrect data was retrieved in the Amazon module, resulting in some users receiving complaints from Amazon.

[MrGrackle]

I hope Wilson.Wang finally prioritizes fixing all the Hulu issues. If he does, then I will use Hulu and add Paramount+ & HBO Max to makeup for those Amazon channels. For the rest, Sonarr w/Newsgroups is what i will continue to use. Truthfully, it's so much better than StreamFab if you don't care about H265 and subtitles. It's all automated.

I know Roku Channel has a lot of add-ons as well.
The thing is, AMZ usually has the best AV quality, so this sucks.
Again, if there were an option to to background playback that does NOT record, but rather saves the data, that would definitely be the fix we are seeking as it would truly look like a browser is playing. Downloading the audio stream first and then the video stream, that is sort of a give away. But that might not be it at all either. For all we know, it could be something else all silly as hell.

[simchris]

downloading from Amazon right now.....nyahahahaaaah...

[TheRaven]

A question. Can Amazon detect when you analyze something? No download, just analyze.

I got my warning email on July 8 and stopped downloading right away. A few days later, I got a few TV episodes I need to complete series. I first "watched" the episodes in the streamfab browser and then downloaded one at a time. I have now completely shut it down. Going to wait and see where this goes.