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Re:How Netflix outsmarted everyone else in TV by pishpash on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @02:25PM (#17861405)
You can inject your own novelty. Youtube does the same thing and after a while I just clear out its recommendations and start over.

The non-customized (viewed in incognito) main page of Youtube that is the recommendation for the average viewer is even worse, nobody should ever touch that horror show.

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Re:How Netflix outsmarted everyone else in TV by samstave on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @07:37PM (#17863914)
Ublock origin with all filters enabled is the only thing that makes Youtube usable in my opinion.

Youtube is a horrific service. The recommendations are terrible, the UX sucks, too many ads, they dont know how to use the sreen real-estate.

I freaking hate youtube.

WRT to real-estate, I see that the video I am wanting is taking up ~20% of the screen, then there is a list of completely unrelated content, and I have to click to see the date of the submitted video.

The UX is different on every single device. Phone, machine, ipad, browsers differ... its just a mess.

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Re:How Netflix outsmarted everyone else in TV by r_smart on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @02:33PM (#17861515)
Yeah, the front page of Youtube is an abomination. Reddit isn't much better.
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