Good lord, it's beyond time for this. This "feature" made looking for something to watch on Netflix completely impossible for me.
Turning Off Autoplaying Previews
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#182I considered interviewing at Netflix so I could complain in person.
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#183Didn't ever expect to see this capability. A bit unrelated, but: anyone remember in the "early" days when Netflix held competitions to develop the most accurate recommendation and ratings engines? Giving out million dollar prizes? And held possibly state-of-the-art tech for this? And then one day completely gutted the star rating system, replacing it with a much-despised "thumbs up/down" system, giving up their "so g…
I feel like netflix will never solve the recommendations system in favor of the viewer. We need a 3rd party service or some sort of overlay in order to improve search results.
I feel like netflix tends to recommend a lot of bottom of the barrel movies along with movies that I've already seen, there's no fine grained control.
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#184Why oh why is this not a per device setting? Is it really inconceivable I might like or dislike the feature in different environments?
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#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because I might apply different ones, making them useless in aggregate if I assume anything I like has to be a 4 or 5, but you assume that you'll rate anything you like as low as a 2, and reserve just 1 for "don't watch it"
This is why the Uber/Lyft rating system is effectively useless. Five stars is basically "was not unsafe", and four and below indicate significant safety, cleanliness, rudeness, or other problems. If each star rating had a textual description of what it meant, and drivers didn't have to maintain something like a 4.3 (or whatever it is) in order to stay on the platform, the ratings would actually mean something.
Then you have my girlfriend who rates everything a 3/5 because it's average or to be expected. 4/5 for particularly good service. And nobody gets a 5/5.
I think star systems are a waste of time.
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#186Didn't ever expect to see this capability. A bit unrelated, but: anyone remember in the "early" days when Netflix held competitions to develop the most accurate recommendation and ratings engines? Giving out million dollar prizes? And held possibly state-of-the-art tech for this? And then one day completely gutted the star rating system, replacing it with a much-despised "thumbs up/down" system, giving up their "so g…
I feel like netflix will never solve the recommendations system in favor of the viewer. We need a 3rd party service or some sort of overlay in order to improve search results. I feel like netflix tends to recommend a lot of bottom of the barrel movies along with movies that I've already seen, there's no fine grained control.
I mean, there are third-party review websites where you plug in shows you've watched and it recommends new ones, even showing you on which services they're available.
I just doubt people actually care so much that they use them. It's a minor nice-to-have feature. But the law of triviality will suggest that everyone will argue about it every time Netflix comes up, and we do, even though I doubt we really care.
I don't think it's any more useful than searching "best $genre $year" when you're looking for new things to watch.
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#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's because some people don't look titles one at a time. If I have in front of me a list of 30 movies, the fact that I have the cursor over one doesn't mean I'm considering that one. I might be thinking about the name of the movie that my coworker mentioned yesterday, deciding whether I want a comedy or an action flick, or discussing with my girlfriend what to see; or simply reading diagonally the list of 30 movies,…
It sounds like you are watching on a computer? I watch on my Roku tv, where there is only a few titles on screen and it makes sense to scroll threw them one by one. Maybe that's the difference?
I can see a lot of titles on my TV on netflix
Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews
#188Didn't ever expect to see this capability. A bit unrelated, but: anyone remember in the "early" days when Netflix held competitions to develop the most accurate recommendation and ratings engines? Giving out million dollar prizes? And held possibly state-of-the-art tech for this? And then one day completely gutted the star rating system, replacing it with a much-despised "thumbs up/down" system, giving up their "so g…
I don't really like star systems because I spend way too much time deciding if something is 3 or 4 stars, or 4 or 5 stars. I much prefer textual descriptions; for example "Terrible", "Don't like", "Okay", "Like", "Favourite", which has the same options as a 5-star rating system, but choosing between 3/4 and 4/5 is much easier IMHO. I don't really know of any system that uses this, except this one music player I wrote…
goodreads has textual descriptions for its star ratings of "did not like it", "it was ok", "liked it", "really liked it", "it was amazing".
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#189Wow THANK YOU! I agree I didn't expect to see this happen. Now if we could get Roku to turn off the 'auto add a channel if you hit the play/pause button by accident' I would swear less at my streaming setup :-)
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sure there was a narrow window when you could stream seemingly every film, ancient and modern, legitimately. Then the studios twigged and had to kill it.
I don't even mind paying on demand to stream a film. It's annoying and economically baffling when you can't stream a film even if you have your credit card in hand, ready to pay. Last weekend I tried to find To Live and Die in L.A. -- from the 1980s but hardly obscure. I couldn't find it legitimately available to stream anywhere , for any amount of money. I even tried Kanopy, which has been my go-to source for films…
Two films that I can't get on streaming or DVD are
* The Name of the Rose * The Draughtmans Contract
I spose I'll have to find them at an old fashioned DVD store, eg. https://filmclub.com.au/