Not to mention the surveillance chill of "how will watching this flick affect what the recommendation algorithm thinks of me." At least let me turn that shit off.
Maybe that's just context though, on say youtube where you have a billion vids and I'm just watching short music clips or programming vids, sure it may be helpful to show me stuff related to what I just watched. On Netflix just give me a directory and make it easy for me to browse, maybe show me the new releases etc. There's mostly no such things as 'similar' when it comes to feature length movies except for sequels and remakes.
Or I dunno, maybe they really just didn't have a single thing I wanted to watch, which is entirely possible.
On Netflix just give me a directory and make it easy for me to browse
If they did that, you'd see just how small their catalog really is. For Netflix, the recommendation engine is vital camouflage for the fact that they just don't have very much content. Netflix have about 4,000 movies in their catalog, of which a substantial proportion are low-budget filler. Once you remove the obvious junk, you're left with a selection of movies that's no better than a Blockbuster store circa 2005.
Fundamentally, you don't get Netflix for movies. Maybe that's why you sign up originally but if you don't watch any TV shows, Netflix is probably not worth it for you. One of their senior people told me a few years ago that "People come for movies and they stay for TV." And that's probably still the case. I doubt its catalog is anywhere near the quality of a 2005 Blockbuster for films. Unfortunately, their DVD back catalog is also rotting away to the point where I'll probably end up dropping that subscription at some point.
how will watching this flick affect what the recommendation algorithm thinks of me
Not to mention the fact that my wife and I use a single Netflix account. She watches things that I think are objectively garbage. I watch things she feels the same about. There are several things we enjoy watching together.
Just show me what you've added in the last month and make it easy for me to browse categories. That's all I want.
And how long is Kevin Hart's 3-year old stand up special going to be in the "recently added" section? It's been there for me for at least 8-9 months.
Just do what everyone does and create a guilty pleasures profile? Bonus, your guilty pleasures account will get better guilty pleasure recommendations.
I'm genuinely curious why? When I sit down to watch a movie I'm usually pretty sure if I want something with explosions or something with jokes or something with feels, is that atypical? Do you want pitch perfect and the green mile in the same set of recommendations?
I really just don't want any recommendations. They suck. Their algorithm has no idea what I want to watch. Maybe a list of things highly rated by other human beings that I could filter by genre would work. And not just other humans who've watched the same things I have.
But as the the immediate point, guess I'm just paranoid. I want to watch movies without data nerds peering through my windows, is that so wrong? I would very much like to be excluded from their preferences dataset entirely, but as an alternative I'll settle for just not watching stuff.
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This, please, pretty please.
Not to mention the surveillance chill of "how will watching this flick affect what the recommendation algorithm thinks of me." At least let me turn that shit off.
Maybe that's just context though, on say youtube where you have a billion vids and I'm just watching short music clips or programming vids, sure it may be helpful to show me stuff related to what I just watched. On Netflix just give me a directory and make it easy for me to browse, maybe show me the new releases etc. There's mostly no such things as 'similar' when it comes to feature length movies except for sequels and remakes.
Or I dunno, maybe they really just didn't have a single thing I wanted to watch, which is entirely possible.
If they did that, you'd see just how small their catalog really is. For Netflix, the recommendation engine is vital camouflage for the fact that they just don't have very much content. Netflix have about 4,000 movies in their catalog, of which a substantial proportion are low-budget filler. Once you remove the obvious junk, you're left with a selection of movies that's no better than a Blockbuster store circa 2005.
Fundamentally, you don't get Netflix for movies. Maybe that's why you sign up originally but if you don't watch any TV shows, Netflix is probably not worth it for you. One of their senior people told me a few years ago that "People come for movies and they stay for TV." And that's probably still the case. I doubt its catalog is anywhere near the quality of a 2005 Blockbuster for films. Unfortunately, their DVD back catalog is also rotting away to the point where I'll probably end up dropping that subscription at some point.
Agreed w/the rest of your comment but "[...] they stay for TV?" I take it they and/or you meant "series".
Not to mention the fact that my wife and I use a single Netflix account. She watches things that I think are objectively garbage. I watch things she feels the same about. There are several things we enjoy watching together.
Just show me what you've added in the last month and make it easy for me to browse categories. That's all I want.
And how long is Kevin Hart's 3-year old stand up special going to be in the "recently added" section? It's been there for me for at least 8-9 months.
You can create multiple profiles in an account.
When bae invites you over for surveillance and chill?
bae def don't need to see all the chick flicks I've been watching
Just do what everyone does and create a guilty pleasures profile? Bonus, your guilty pleasures account will get better guilty pleasure recommendations.
do. not. want.
I'm genuinely curious why? When I sit down to watch a movie I'm usually pretty sure if I want something with explosions or something with jokes or something with feels, is that atypical? Do you want pitch perfect and the green mile in the same set of recommendations?
I really just don't want any recommendations. They suck. Their algorithm has no idea what I want to watch. Maybe a list of things highly rated by other human beings that I could filter by genre would work. And not just other humans who've watched the same things I have.
But as the the immediate point, guess I'm just paranoid. I want to watch movies without data nerds peering through my windows, is that so wrong? I would very much like to be excluded from their preferences dataset entirely, but as an alternative I'll settle for just not watching stuff.