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Re:An ex-YouTube whistleblower on their recommendation engine by solarkraft on Sunday February 10, 2019 @01:12PM (#19129077)
It also justifies the money you pay them.

But it's not actually true that they're not ad based: They follow the great new strategy of native advertising.

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Re:An ex-YouTube whistleblower on their recommendation engine by eeeeeeeeeeeee on Sunday February 10, 2019 @03:13PM (#19129715)
Native advertising, yep, explains also why browsing around the Netflix interface auto-plays everything and you cannot turn it off. That is Netflix’s internal ad space and it’s very valuable.
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Re:An ex-YouTube whistleblower on their recommendation engine by dorkwood on Monday February 11, 2019 @08:16PM (#19140164)
That’s actually the reason I stopped using Netflix.

I’m the kind of person who avoids trailers and on-the-next-episode-of spoilers, and Netflix assaults you with both of these things. The only way to turn it off is to leave.

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