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Crackle

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Crackle Reviews Summary

Crackle has a rating of 1.8 stars from 412 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Crackle most frequently mention many commercials, streaming service and watch anything. Crackle ranks 187th among Streaming Movies sites.

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New Hampshire
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I really enjoyed Crackle DVD TV Series Cleaners with the exception Cleaners Season 1 DVD Has 6 Episodes and the DVD has only 1 Episode. So Crackle sucks to high heaven Incorrect setup of episodes on a DVD and too many commercials on their streaming. Stay away form this channel, app try Pluto or some other app

Date of experience: July 30, 2021
Washington
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Loud commercials
July 11, 2021

Crackle is putting out commercials that are way too loud, based on the insane idea that people will buy from loud ads, instead, i change chanels. And watch pluto tv

Date of experience: July 10, 2021
Michigan
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Crackle asking every time about my ad experience.
Has got to stop!
I have chosen every time and they keep asking.
If I have told you once, I have told you a 1000 times!
Stop asking!

Date of experience: June 6, 2021
Florida
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Too many commercials!
April 27, 2021

I mean a few is ok, but as soon as you start to get into the movie, up pops another commercial, some times the same one 4 times in a row...

Date of experience: April 27, 2021
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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It's a viewers market. Ad-funded streaming sites are multiplying exponentially, and looking for that elusive it factor, that unique feature that will attract andn most impiortantly retain viewers. Crackle has been in the game for a while, relying on an adequate plataform and a decent catalalog. Seemingly, Crackle places all it factor bets on ad experience. And it certainly stands out. Crackle sprinkles the exact same Ruffles add very liberally throught the show and to enhance your experience, it lets you know you just ran to take the laundry out of the washer- but it's finem yuo don't have to interact, it's allright, it is of course your choice, all that we want is to entretain you. And. Like, this has nothing to do but, well... the ads, because you refuse, i jmean not that you refuse but you kinda hate... and hate is sucg a strong word... they; re just gonna be longer, i wish they didn't have to andmean I'll keep them as short as i can but they will be longer. And i will be a little sad, but don;'t worry ive always been sad my entire life. I thought with you... but no, of course im happy with you... not interacting with ads is what i most... but the ads... well, they are going to be longer. Because of you not inetracting. Oh and Ill remind you again the next time the movie stops to repeat the same ad... just to be clear that its ok but its your fault.

Date of experience: April 25, 2021
Texas
1 review
4 helpful votes
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The ridiculously extensive and repetitive ads that go on for 4 minutes over and over and over again during a 20-minute broadcast make viewing virtually unbearable.

I can't even imagine what it would be like to try to get through a movie when I can barely tolerate getting through 20-minute show.

Well I appreciate the fact that Crackle is bringing us some oldies that are very much loved with only us having to pay by being subject to these repetitive ads for crazy things like anti-diabetic medication anti-diarrhea medication, RAM Man trucks, and a couple of strange commercials thrown in the middle that I cannot figure out to save my life what they're even for, I simply can't sit through it anymore. It's WAY too much.

I would gladly pay a nominal fee to watch some programming. Sitting through the never ending ads actually makes me despise the company's that advertise. I HATE Ram trucks now I never even thought about them before! I hope to God I never get diabetes because I would never take that crazy stuff that they're advertising over and over and over again with people running through fields and jumping around on elevators and through lobbies and ponds and creeks and forests singing about how wonderfully that they can produce insulin and disperse it because of this wonderful drug. It goes on longer than a Led Zeppelin uncut original, which would be quite welcome and often need it after sitting through the crazy commercials during a 20-minute episode of a program. The viewer will likely also require the anesthetics that went along with the great music of the Zeppelin era.

I would swear I've used the Crackle app before without having so many interruptions that lasted so long but maybe I'm thinking of something else.

Thanks for trying, Crackle

Date of experience: April 5, 2021
Louisiana
1 review
4 helpful votes
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AWFUL
March 26, 2021

Crackle is absolutely the worst streaming service I've ever used. It almost always stops in the middle of a movie, and if you can re-start it at all it starts over from the beginning. Even the commercials freeze!

Date of experience: March 25, 2021
Maryland
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Every ten minutes are interrupted by four or five commercials which last two to three minutes. This means you watch eight minutes of movie for every set, which don't even have the courtesy to pop up during scene transitions. Often, it's mid sentence of dialog.

Date of experience: March 10, 2021
Massachusetts
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Hit or miss
January 31, 2021

When it first came out, it played 1 commercial like 3 times in a row. Then it added a couple different ones and it was okay. Now the ads last up to 4 and half minutes... Starting to feel like I'm watching more commercials than shows. When it gets back I almost forget where it left off or it comes back just to play the credits. Less to no ads you'll get your 5 stars

Date of experience: January 30, 2021
Massachusetts
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Yes watch our advertisements they never fail but your movies will especially the ending you will never see it. Welcome to crackle like the name our services give you the same

Date of experience: January 12, 2021
New Hampshire
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I sat to watch a movie and got 2 comercial ads... then after that on every 10 minutes you get 7 to 8 comercials. That's more comercial than the normal tv channel at home... don't worth the time to watch a movie... you'll be 3 plus hours trying to finished it because of so many comercial ads... trash app

Date of experience: December 20, 2020
Mississippi
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Too many
October 23, 2020

There are too many commercials I was watching a show commercial came on eight of them the show came on for 1 minute and seven more commercials came back on

Date of experience: October 22, 2020
Florida
3 reviews
8 helpful votes
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Don't waste your time
October 18, 2020

Nothing much to review, just trying to signing in to that site is worst than cracking a safe. Probably they are just
Getting as much information from you as they can. What for? Only they know.

Date of experience: October 18, 2020
Germany
1 review
2 helpful votes
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So Many Commercials
October 16, 2020

Awful service, worse than TV. If you try to continue watching where you left off the day before it usually goes back 4 scenes. If you fast forward you will immediately have to watch another 6 commercials. Sometimes after already watching those commercials another 5 ads pop up. Its the same propaganda political ads over and over without balanced audio so if you don't mute it right away you'll be in for a treat. There are other free streaming services like TUBI that are so much better. Tubi doesn't even have commercials. As soon as I'm done watching startup I'm deleting this dumpster fire crackle app

Date of experience: October 15, 2020
Georgia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Volume!
October 15, 2020

Please turn down the commercials. The volume blasts you off the couch compared to show volume. It's ridiculous. Love it except for that

Date of experience: October 14, 2020
Georgia
1 review
5 helpful votes
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WHAT are you doing Crackle? Watched ONE movie and will never be back. The INSANE amount of commercials and length of your commercials are not worth watching movies on your app. You should stop a movie THREE TIMES and only 3 times to show up to 1 min of ads each. We've watched ONE MOVIE. We're only 1/2 way and you've stopped the movie every 10 minutes for 2 minutes of ads each and they BUFFER and last even longer than 2 minutes! PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR REVIEWS. I'm making a point of NOT giving any of your advertisers my money. I've made note of the companies advertising during this movie.

Date of experience: September 28, 2020
Ohio
5 reviews
14 helpful votes
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The Walmart of Internet TV
September 27, 2020

The absolute worst free tv site on the internet, which is expected seeing how most all of their commercials/ads are nothing but liberal nonsense messages, which they automatically show every 10 mins throughout your movie. Quick research shows that this company is based out of San Francisco, which should be your first clue on how trash this site is. ALL LIVES MATTER!

Date of experience: September 27, 2020
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Crackle is horrendous
September 21, 2020

Clunky, redundant and absolutely infuriating. After im done with this series ill delete crackle.
Ads are absolutely insane in frequency and time. The interactive ad is complete bull$#*! and will not save you from ads even though it says it will. The interface is utterly horrible and any fwd or reverse search in your selection will que up ads. Its just $#*!ing horrible. $#*! U CRACKLE U HORRENDOUS PILE OF $#*! APP!

Date of experience: September 20, 2020
New Jersey
1 review
0 helpful votes
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First, I was watching on my laptop. I got through 2 1/2 movies. Then my laptop kept restarting itself. I had to delete all my cookies and shut it down in between the restarts it kept doing. All the important tabs I had open, closed. I went to continue watching the movie on my phone. It played fine. I went to sleep and just paused it. I woke up and the same thing happened with my phone. I don't remember but it used to mess up my old desktop computer.

From the few comments I see, nobody else has these problems. But I'm beyond pissed. All my work from both devices... gone.

Date of experience: September 12, 2020
Ohio
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Trash
August 9, 2020

Crackle is honestly such a trash app. On my ps4 I was watching a movie and I fell asleep. So I wake up the next morning to finish so I had to skip back to the part I was at. It doesn't even skip. And 1/5 when it does skip you get almost to the point you are at and then an ad plays and completely restarts the movie. Been spending 20+ minutes just trying to skip back to the part I was at

Date of experience: August 9, 2020