WAS great, NOW garbage – The SNL Official App on NBC Review

I’ve had this app for a long time and loved being able to watch skits while traveling away from home. Opened the app today only to discover you are now REQUIRED to either sign in with Facebook or create an NBC profile and allow NBC to spam you with unwanted marketing. APP DELETED! UPDATE 5/11/18. I genuinely appreciate that the developer responded to my review. That doesn’t happen often. However, needing my email address to “better power [y]our recommendation engine” is not a good reason to REQUIRE an account. Why can’t that be optional? I’d be happy to have less personalized recommendations if it meant I could use the app without logging in. I don’t want occasional emails about new content that “shouldn’t be missed”. I know when the show airs (Saturday night still right?) and when new content is in the app. Lastly, allowing someone to unsubscribe from further emails is fundamentally different than not requiring an account in the first place. Let’s be honest - you don’t make users set up an account for their benefit - it’s being done to provide better analytics and tracking capabilities to NBC.
Review by Boston_Jon on The SNL Official App on NBC.