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Post by throwoutway » Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 7:21 PM UTC

Zero. Cancelled it a long time ago and haven’t looked back.

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Post by pph » Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 7:22 PM UTC

yreg wrote: post #24

kiawe_fire wrote: post #11

I might need something that tells me how much time I spend browsing Netflix only to not watch anything. My Netflix habit consists of aspiring to actually watch something as a way to relax before bed, opening the app, scrolling through a bunch of lists, deciding “that looks really good, I should probably save that to watch with my dad”, “this looks good but too heavy for me tonight”, “this looks good but only one seas…

>But movies and video games I have severe analysis paralysis that leads to a lot of browsing and no actual watching or playing. I suffered of this problem as well and I believe I managed to solve it. ## Netflix - I only open Netflix when I know what I'm going to watch. - When I don't know what to watch it means I'm not in the mood for anything I'm currently planning to watch. So I don't open Netflix, I go to YouTube…

> I only open Netflix when I know what I'm going to watch.

Only to realize that it's not in their library (anymore).

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Post by dhritzkiv » Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 7:24 PM UTC

Phelinofist wrote: post #22

idk seems wrong: Analysis results Found 2123 videos in the watch history. Assuming average 40 minutes per video... Recent stats 0 minutes this year so far 0 minutes on average per day during last 30 days All time stats (over last 0 days) 1415 hours 20 minutes during all time Infinity hours on average per day Infinity hours on average per week

Same here:

Found 5098 videos in the watch history. Assuming average 40 minutes per video...

    0 minutes this year so far
    0 minutes on average per day during last 30 days

All time stats (over last 0 days)

    3398 hours 40 minutes during all time
    Infinity hours on average per day
    Infinity hours on average per week

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Post by Meltiono » Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 7:32 PM UTC

Didn't know netflix actually allows to download this.

Very nice, but now i'm way more curious than before. Like prefered weekdays, top tv shows (i watch and others watch) etc.

I would also like to see when its more or less 'netflix time'.

Like right now we have stranger things, the umbrella academy and better call saul. Could easily be visualized and potentially even inform me when i can unsubscribe temporarily (not that it matters that much for a few bucks per month)

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Post by Meltiono » Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 7:37 PM UTC

system2 wrote: post #21

I can't believe people still watch netflix. Algorithm generated content for simpletons.

No need for you to bashing netflix if you don't like their content.

Its $10 per month, 2 coffees.

I also do watch a lot of tv shows and movies for the last 15/20 years (also stuff besides mainstream) and there are pretty good tv shows on netflix. Stranger Things, The Umbrella Academy, Better Call Saul, Russian Doll, Love Death and Robots (the last season was weirder than usual though), Space force (super quirky, love it!), The Witcher, Arcane, Superstore, Squid Game

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Post by Meltiono » Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 7:45 PM UTC

iLoveOncall wrote: post #12

Keep in mind it counts anything you ever played as watched, even if you dropped after one second. I'm surprised to see I have 100h throughout the whole year (including the caveat I mentioned above). I feel like I spent more time trying to find something decent to watch than actually watching stuff...

I'm not browsing netflix regularly but we have a few tv shows which are worth keeping netflix anyway like the current Stranger Things, The Umbrella Academy, Russion Doll, Better Call Saul, ...

Next to that we watch normally one old TV Show which is the easy way to go to. Right now its Friends. Bevor that it was Star Trek Voyager.

Thats enough for me already to not feel bad for paying $10 per month for it.

But than there is also something we don't have in germany: super weird tv shows like 'The floor is lava' or 'is it cake?'. I scroll through them and watch a whole season in lets say 1-2 hours by watching the start and forwarding to the end or so. And there are so many of them and surprisingly interesting like the glass stuff or the chocolate show with Amaury Guichon, which is crazy :D

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#37

Post by yreg » Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 7:54 PM UTC

pph wrote: post #32

yreg wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>But movies and video games I have severe analysis paralysis that leads to a lot of browsing and no actual watching or playing. I suffered of this problem as well and I believe I managed to solve it. ## Netflix - I only open Netflix when I know what I'm going to watch. - When I don't know what to watch it means I'm not in the mood for anything I'm currently planning to watch. So I don't open Netflix, I go to YouTube…

> I only open Netflix when I know what I'm going to watch. Only to realize that it's not in their library (anymore).

I'm in EU and this didn't happen to me yet (although I've watched Friends while I could).

It sometimes feels like I'm the only netizen who is happy with the Netflix catalogue, but to be honest I think they have a giant pile of great shows; many more than I have time or mood to watch. I believe the issue is that they produce an even bigger pile of shows that are utterly shit, so if you just play something at random there is a high chance of it being low quality. To me that doesn't matter much as long as there is enough of the good stuff.

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Post by just_for_you » Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 8:20 PM UTC

sys_64738 wrote: post #4

Me? Zero hours per month.

Same here.

Like alcohol, drugs and smoking, endless streaming media is just something I don't touch. I know there's an insane amount of good content to watch out there, but I'm content with not knowing what it's like diving into that rabbit hole.

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Post by bee_rider » Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 8:31 PM UTC

least wrote: post #25

pearjuice wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Too much filler cut scenes and slow dialogue. For example, Suits has notorious slow dialogue and lots of cut scenes hovering over city buildings which add nothing to the script. Watching it at 1.5x makes me miss absolutely nothing and reduces episodes of 45 minutes to roughly half an hour.

You miss almost everything, actually. The only thing you retain by watching it at 1.5x speed is the dialogue and some sort of vague approximation of the visuals. I'm not suggesting that you shouldn't be able to enjoy tv as you do, but you're definitely incorrect to assert you're missing "absolutely nothing."

I mean, they've reported that they miss absolutely nothing, and the experience of watching a TV show is a subjective one. While I don't mess around with the speed, I haven't seen any compelling arguments that somebody couldn't get it all watching at 1.5x speed.

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#40

Post by dxuh » Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 8:47 PM UTC

Assuming 40 minutes per entry is way off base imho. Most of the stuff I watched is sitcoms with 20 minutes per episode each. If you are just going to count the lines of the file I "Upload" to your website, maybe don't even do it at all. Also why does the button say "Upload" and right below it says "Your data is processed locally and not sent to any servers.". Upload implies precisely that data is being transferred.

It's great that this page informed me about the existence of that CSV file though. Thanks for that.