If you spent 20 mins looking, it's not their recommendation system that's failing. It's that you don't like their content (or how their content is portrayed). The recommendation system is the thing that shows you stuff without you needing to browse for 20 mins.
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#22Re: Ask HN: How can Netflix and Amazon Prime be this bad at recommending content?
#23If you spent 20 mins looking, it's not their recommendation system that's failing. It's that you don't like their content (or how their content is portrayed). The recommendation system is the thing that shows you stuff without you needing to browse for 20 mins.
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#24Something else conspicuously missing from these services is a checkbox to make it never show me something again. Why do I have to scroll through an endless line of "nope", "nope", "nope", "definitely not", "no" every night, then look at all the same stuff tomorrow? Does someone get paid when I have to sacrifice a brain cell for each of these minor decisions?
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#25Totally agree, that's why I gave up on it myself and created an aggregator. https://tomatotree.tv
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#26I don't have time to shift out the good from the bad with Netflix.
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#27I sure have a much smaller collection than any streaming service, but it's actually all content I like, and I actually watch stuff instead of just browsing for 20min.
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#28A big problem on Netflix is that they don't use the original poster or description for movies, instead coming up with their own. I find that these generally don't do movies justice.
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#29Amazon doesn't know who I bought something for so making sense of why I have bought 4 padlocks (my father in law), a set of sauce pans (wife), a light novel (myself) and rechargeable batteries (myself)