Wow I've never seen parallax ads before.. I kinda like them, as long as they're in the minority so they're refreshing.
Netflix Has Deleted Every User Review Ever Posted to Its Website
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Kanopy is incredible if you want quality curated worldwide content. Free with your library card, at least in LA. Filmstruck for criterion collection and worldwide classical cinema. $80/y. If you have amazon prime you get some blockbusters for free. Some att plans include hbo go. Netflix still has some good documentaries but their new releases have been low quality, except possibly for black mirror.
Kanopy looks quite interesting and seems to be available from Germany. EDIT: I don't get it ... seems like a special service for people registered a library or university !? :/
In the US, many online services -- streaming audio/video, e-books, subscription research databases -- are only available to the public via local libraries or universities.
As a library technologist, my guess is that it's just easier for these services to sell 1,000 institutional licenses instead of 30 million retail accounts.
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Kind of. I run Streama https://github.com/streamaserver/streama Combined with ripped dvds and/or pirate bay, can make for a refreshing video streaming service you own and host.
Chinese here. How do you guys reconcile your own torrenting, usage of sci-hub etc with the tendency to portray us as monsters for "theft of American intellectual property"? I'm granting that we did (and on a large enough scale) for the sake of argument. Is the idea that it's okay to steal so long as it's stealing from the rich and powerful (netflix, disney, record labels whatever)? If so, do you see how that argument…
I don't view anyone as monsters but my guess is that the difference is behavior of government vs. behavior of citizens.
The US.gov doesn't care if Random Chinese Citizen torrents something. They care if Chinese Company is bootlegging on a scale sufficient to annoy US Company, and China.gov won't do anything about it.
For the record, the US.gov does often care -- or used to care -- if US Company is bootlegging on a massive scale too. And they even used to crack down on Random US Citizens bootlegging!
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It got bad enough for me that I deleted my Netflix account a few months ago and haven't really missed it. I got tired of scrolling through for ages and never finding anything I felt like watching. It still surprises me that they don't do a better job of recommendations given they used to make a big deal out of it.
So, what are you watching instead?..
Youtube has a good recommendation engine (mostly based on last 10 videos you viewed), so it is enjoyable to browse Youtube videos.
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#155It may also be the case that negative reviews of movies, TV shows, and stand-up specials did more to dissuade potential viewers than positive reviews did them to draw in; ... Netflix's bigger problem is that much of its content looks good on the surface, but on closer inspection is not worth the time. A lot of this stuff is produced by Netflix itself. Bill Nye's most recent show comes to mind, but there's a lot more.…
The selection on Netflix's streaming service is atrocious. Their DVD service ( https://dvd.netflix.com ) is far, far superior. All the user reviews are still up on there too, for now.
It may seem like the selection is terrible on the streaming service, but I think a lot of content is just hard to find.
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#156It's hard for me to get too upset. Personally, it seems a bit conspiracy theory to think it's people might read negative reviews. Seems more likely it was a poorly used resource and Netflix didn't see the value in continue to support, maintain, and screen it. That aside, it points to a couple of issues. There is a lot of bad content on Netflix. It never had a good film catalog and their TV strategy has clearly evolve…
> No one has come close to solving recommendation. What if it isn't solvable? To me it doesn't look like there is enough room to maneuver, at least not in things like movies and TV shows, I think in music there might be. Say a recommendation needs to fulfill the intersection of 2+ things the user likes to feel like a recommendation, for example "you watched space and romance movies, here's a romance in space" otherwi…
It's still possible to try to recommend as close a match as possible. If no matches, then recommend based on actor, director, producer, etc. Currently Netflix just throws in the towel and recommends some completely unrelated content.
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#158I found the star ratings useful and wish they were on the main browsing page so I do have to click into a movie to see the details.
That said I actually loath Netflix's UI. I'm sure they have some metric which shows it works but I hate hate hate the instant preview/playback. I want to browse quietly reading the descriptions and then possibly checking the internet but the distraction of Netflix starting the auto play makes that impossible for me so I end up just turning it off and googling for things to watch. This usually fails so I watch nothing.
My current pattern is wait for a friend to recommend something and then subscribe and a few days later cancel my subscription. In the month I have the service i rarely turn it on the browse because of the aforementioned issue. When I do convince myself to try to browse the issue comes up again and I just turn it off. I probably pay for 1 to 3 months a year. Kudos to Netflix for not forcing a yearly subscription otherwise I'd just find other sources
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#159Wow, what a massive total waste, shame on netflix. In the early days people relied heavily on those reviews, and spent hours writing those reviews. I understand them wanting to keep that data for data analysis purposes, and I understand them wanting to not share it, but to delete it? At least make it rate limited tied to a paid Netflix account or something, not wipe it away for ever. What a shame.
Yeah I remember a page-long review of Caillou that proposed an elaborate theory that the entire show was actually a flashback of the parents after Caillou's passing, having died of terminal cancer (evidenced by his baldness as a result of chemotherapy). This was the ostensible explanation for their limitless patience and coddling as Caillou whines and pouts his way through every episode with no boundaries, discipline…
Off-topic, but was it https://www.wattpad.com/205511535-creepypasta-caillou-has-ca... ? Your description was too good, so I had to look it up.
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#160It may also be the case that negative reviews of movies, TV shows, and stand-up specials did more to dissuade potential viewers than positive reviews did them to draw in; ... Netflix's bigger problem is that much of its content looks good on the surface, but on closer inspection is not worth the time. A lot of this stuff is produced by Netflix itself. Bill Nye's most recent show comes to mind, but there's a lot more.…
Some A/B testing maybe told them that no reviews create higher engagement.
They probably decrease long time customer satisfaction and drive them to other platforms, but hey, who cares, you can't measure that.