Netflix's Viewing Data: How We Know Where You Are in House of Cards
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Netflix's Viewing Data: How We Know Where You Are in House of Cards
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#2I wish they would note which movies they've shown to me and I've chosen not to watch 1 bazillion times. Then stop showing them to me. For recommendations, isn't knowing what I chose not to watch as important as knowing what I've actually watched?
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#3I know it's their data. I know I'm playing in their sandbox. I know how much data a couple of terabyte hard drives can really hold.
But these kinds of revelations are still a solid 10 on the creepy scale nonetheless.
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#4I know it's their data. I know I'm playing in their sandbox. I know how much data a couple of terabyte hard drives can really hold. But these kinds of revelations are still a solid 10 on the creepy scale nonetheless.
A 10 is overstating it, I think. Netflix gives reasons for why they collect the data (recommendations, continue watching cross-device, ...). Given the Netflix prize, I don't think we can be too surprised that they're collecting data for recommendations (or figuring out whether licensing deals are worth it). I'd give it a weak 2 on the creepy scale.
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#5I wish they would note which movies they've shown to me and I've chosen not to watch 1 bazillion times. Then stop showing them to me. For recommendations, isn't knowing what I chose not to watch as important as knowing what I've actually watched?
The Netflix UI is not completely consistent, so on some screens the option is not available, but in theory you can rate a movie as "Not Interested" for these cases.
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#6I wish they would note which movies they've shown to me and I've chosen not to watch 1 bazillion times. Then stop showing them to me. For recommendations, isn't knowing what I chose not to watch as important as knowing what I've actually watched?
Yup. Similarly, I wish they'd stop recommending entire sets of options based on a TV show I abandoned halfway through the first episode three months ago because it was so bad.
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#7I wish they would note which movies they've shown to me and I've chosen not to watch 1 bazillion times. Then stop showing them to me. For recommendations, isn't knowing what I chose not to watch as important as knowing what I've actually watched?
The Netflix UI is not completely consistent, so on some screens the option is not available, but in theory you can rate a movie as "Not Interested" for these cases.
Haven't see a "not interested" option in the iOS app. Where does it show up?
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Netflix UI is not completely consistent, so on some screens the option is not available, but in theory you can rate a movie as "Not Interested" for these cases.
Haven't see a "not interested" option in the iOS app. Where does it show up?
Not sure on iOS. Here it is on the web interface:
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#9That eyeball in the circle of dots would make a good logo for an NSA project. They should borrow it.
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#10I wish they would note which movies they've shown to me and I've chosen not to watch 1 bazillion times. Then stop showing them to me. For recommendations, isn't knowing what I chose not to watch as important as knowing what I've actually watched?
They also bizarrely consider something that you have only watched a few seconds of (by accident) as watched and like to show recommendations by that.
Through human eyes, Netflix's recommendations are especially dumb for the reasons you and I give. Equally pointless is recommending things I have already watched in a genre instead of other items in that genre, and doing a filter bubble where they keep narrowing down to things like you have already watched.