Re:What Is Social Cooling?
by lazyasciiart on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @12:45AM
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Create a profile to share and a profile for what you want to watch. This helps get better targeted recommendations in general, because even aside from stuff you don't want to tell people you watch, IME there's stuff you like that don't suit the people you watch with.
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Re:What Is Social Cooling?
by DoingIsLearning on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @03:12AM
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> Create a profile to share and a profile for what you want to watch. This helps get better targeted recommendations
Or you know we could just have a proper advanced search within Netflix rather than me going through hoops with flixable etc or trying to play 4d chess to second guess how Netflix ML might give me the content I actually want to watch.
Perhaps I am a minority contrarian (In fairness I was pretty much coerced to get Netflix by my family) but it just feels like there is so much accidental complexity in this Netflix paradigm of 'we non-negotiably must cleverly guess what you want to watch'.
You're free to like or dislike Netflix's recommendation algorithms, of course, but does creating two profiles really feel like playing 4d chess to you... or do you simply refuse to countenance a solution out of annoyance and spite? :-)
Re:What Is Social Cooling?
by DoingIsLearning on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @06:03AM
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Arguably you could make the same argument to Netflix Product Managers with regards to an advanced search feature with some added basic filters. :-)
Re:What Is Social Cooling?
by lazyasciiart on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @05:22PM
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You do you, but I like having a list of stuff I want to watch separated from a list of stuff to watch with the family. I’m not planning to memorize those lists and search every time, that would be insane.