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Re:Netflix Pulls the Plug on Feature Designed to Get Kids Ad... by mikepurvis on Monday December 24, 2018 @09:05PM (#18755423)
My wife hates this behaviour because you never know when it's going to show previews for intense thriller or even horror content. It's bizarre that they would show this to an account which has literally only ever been used to watch Friends, How I Met Your Mother, Gilmore Girls, and similar shows.
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Re:Netflix Pulls the Plug on Feature Designed to Get Kids Ad... by rhizome on Monday December 24, 2018 @11:22PM (#18755879)
Gives you an idea of well recommendation engines work in the general case.
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Re:Netflix Pulls the Plug on Feature Designed to Get Kids Ad... by mikepurvis on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @11:08AM (#18757873)
I think the issue is that the autoplaying background promotions have nothing to do with the recommendations— it's mostly just Netflix pushing their exclusive content.
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