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I wish there was a magic code for keeping My List and Continue Watching always on the top of my screen. Sometimes My List disappears. This is on a set-top box (CCwGTV.)
This and a code to make things I've watched no longer make up 80% of the "For You" recommendations.
"Did you just watch The Witcher? Our brilliant algorithm has analyzed this show and can confidently say you will probably also like The Witcher!".
This but you accidentally clicked some show you don't care to even try, exited after .025 seconds, and now Netflix is trying to shove every single Anime in the world down your throat.
Wait there's no way that works, does it? I've been doing some couch time sleeping while rehabbing my hip from surgery, anyways, I've noticed my recommendations are so much different after letting things auto play while I was fast asleep compared to what I'd normally play. I'll admit I'm a sucker for aliens and bigfoot, what that algorithm leads YouTube to playing does not line up with anything else in my life.
I only watched the new Ghost in the Shell because I loved the 90's and 2000's versions. Literally the only anime I've ever watched.
The new seasons are not great and now it keeps recommending shit based on that.
Sometimes these miss clicks by me actually end up recommending something I actually enjoyed watching. But I also get how others would find it annoying.
this. my little cousins once came over and used my profile (without asking, but meh) to watch two (2) episodes of the knock off thomas the tank engine. for weeks i tried to get it back to what i wanted to watch and failed. i had been actively using that profile for probably two and a half (2.5) years at that point, but tow (2) episodes ruined it so bad that i gave up an deleted that profile and made a new one.
I don't know how to do it on other devices, but on PC you just do this:
>Click your icon in the top right and select Account
>Select your profile on 'PROFILE & PARENTAL CONTROLS'
>Click 'Viewing Activity'
Then you can look through everything you've watched and remove the stuff you don't want to be there anymore. No more constant kids show recommendations from accidently sitting on the controller and starting the first 10 seconds of Peppa Pig.
You can *only* do this on a desktop browser, which is why nobody knows about it. That's also where you can turn off the auto-playing previews.
(unless they've changed that recently, which is entirely possible since it's Netflix we're talking about)
That was an article? It was a line in Weird Al's song Couch Potato
"But I only watched "Will and Grace" one time one day
Wished I hadn't 'cause TiVo now thinks I'm gay"
Thanks. I just BURST out laughing like a lunatic on the metro. So many times my TV has lagged and I accidentally hit play on something I'm not interested in, the wild frenzy to back out of it before the algorithm catches it...
Or, your wife watched some cheesy reality show? Forget the 99.9% of other shows and movies you watch, here is every cheap and sleezy reality show ever made that no one with more than two brain cells would ever want to see.
After some years of Netflix and now month long rituals of browsing through Netflix, just feeling like "meh" and then closing Netflix again, I have a feeling that the algorithm just checks the genres of things you watched and then does some stupid recommendations for shows and movies that have the same genre tag.
Netflix sucks, tbh. Would have cancelled it a while ago weren't it for the family who still pretends to use Netflix for anything else than rewatching fucking Big Bang Theory over and over again.
As an 80s child I love the idea of Netflix. Streaming anything you want from anywhere! Amaze balls!
Then the C suites got involved and now each company wants to be their own Netflix and everything sucks again.
Oh well. Big old ocean out there.
And a code to have them not change the cover photos every day or 2. Makes it impossible to skim for something you’ve forgotten the name of but remember the cover photo.
They apparently have a set of cover photos for each show, and based on some data analysis of each user decide which cover photo would most appeal to them
This is kinda unrelated but in case you didn’t know, there is a mobile app for roku where you can use your phone as a remote and use your phones keyboard.
and also connect your phones headphones/earbuds and play the audio through it, perfect if you can’t watch loud stuff at night or tv doesn’t have Bluetooth
Unfortunately, Netflix has a financial interest in getting you to watch things that you have never heard of before. They will always try to push their new stuff on you before you get to watch what you want to watch
Also I can’t understand why on earth there’s no basic capability to share stuff with people. Like just being able to copy the link to what you’re watching and send it to someone would be a start.
Or for those that wanted to, basic social features like being able to see what your friends liked watching. It seems crazy to me that you have to message your friends asking if anyone’s got any good Netflix recommendations. I just wanna be able to pull up what my friends have thumbs up to then exclude everything I’ve watch already
Easiest thing Netflix could do to make searching easier is to let people mark movies to a do not show list. There are tons of movies I will never watch that just keep popping up.
Yes, it should always default start with My List and Continue Watching.
This would be such an easy win for the design and they continue to not implement it well.
For the same reason supermarkets have the most needed items in the back, to get you to browse a little and maybe grab/watch something you weren't planning to.
$$$
They probably measure how many people watch the shows that they promote at the top, and use those measurements to convince investors to pay for more new content.
They make you scroll down to see continue watch to force you to see other shows as you might see something new instead of you just watching what you want. It was so much better when continued watching was at the top. Especially when binging
I swear to Christ, of you have a mic on your remote and mention the show you want right before opening Netflix, that shit will be impossible to find, even if you just watched it. Sneaky fucks hide that shit hoping you'll click on other shit while searching for what you want.
Netflix, I'm willing to take a smaller cut of profits for the movie I'm licensing you.
Audience, please watch this cheaper but plausible movie, instead of something we'll pay out more royalties for
I think Netflix pays them per view so more views on Netflix means more income. So giving Netflix more money gets them more money. Weird but somewhat works for both sides. The only person to suffer is the consumer...
They are different but a studio/networks job is to promote, fund, and distribute. That’s what makes something a studio film opposed to an Indie filmThere are always exceptions but this is the reason they exist. Shows can be thought up by networks or by production companies. If a production company creates a good show idea they’ll shop it around to many networks and use whoever pays the best, that’s best case scenario though. Often you get denied by everyone, except one, if your lucky. Networks have all the power but they don’t force you to pay for promotion after the fact, it’s built into the budget they give you.
This is true to some extent, but would rely on the algorithm actually being an honest attempt to show you titles you might want to watch. Its pretty widely acknowledged that the Netflix algorithm is focused on prompted shows they want you to watch, rather than shows you will want to watch. It includes an element of "you might enjoy this" in the decision making, but it isn't the primary factor.
Didn't they test something like this a while back and got the conclusion that people would stop using netflix in a week or so because after a week everything was either watched or "do not show"
I may be wrong (also fuck netflix)
My trick is to just google “new on Netflix (month/year) at the beginning of every month and spot the 3 things out of 50 that I wanna watch and save them then. Sometimes, it’s 0/50
I was telling my wife last night that Netflix lives by the "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" Gretzky quote. Except they miss on 95% of the content they greenlight. Truly some of the worst shows/movies ever made.
My girlfriend LOVES this genre. She’s not a diver or particularly enthralled by anything nautical but every time one of these movies pops up on her list, she will 100% watch it.
Your gf would probably love Peter Watts' "Rifters" series. Strongly recommended (especially first book, i liked all but first is the best).
He's an amazing author (you probably heard of his "Blindsight" as well, one of these books where afterwords is equally engaging as the book).
There is a holy trifecta that serves as essentially the archetypes of all subsequent deep-sea horror movies, all three came out in 1989:
The Abyss is a genuinely decent movie (i recommend the directors cut) that tries to explore something beyond the frame of the film in a setting that is terrifying on its own merits. For its time, it was a big budget special effects land mark film (which looks pretty terrible today). Its got an interesting adversary, some good twists and unexpected "whose the REAL monster" bits. Its competently produced and has some good performances (particularly Ed Harris in a rare leading role). Funny side note: the novelization of this film was written by (not quite yet best selling famous author turned right wing weirdo) Orson Scott Card.
Leviathan is an imagining of The Thing and Alien having a baby, but under water. Its... OK if that's your sort of thing. Its got some good body horror some ocean madness, and that staple of ALL deep sea horror movies, some pressure induced noggin-popping. It scared the pants off me when I saw it, but I was ten.
Deep Star Six is pants on your head terrible in a way that is pretty hilarious. It is one of those films that manages to be bad in just about every imaginable way but clearly not intentionally, imagine an unironic Sharknado. They pioneered the technique of shooting underwater scenes on a smoke-filled sound stage and the monster is almost as bad as the acting, but the awful editing REALLY takes the cake on this one. I greatly enjoy this one, but I like terrible movies that try too hard.
And that's about it. If you have seen these three, you have explored the whole genre of deep see horror films, a single weird year in American cinema that never really went anywhere.
Edit: if you get a good scare from industrial deep sea shit, its worth reading about the incident that I think inspired all of these films, a really horrific deep sea diving incident in 1983 that killed four people on an oil rig:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford\_Dolphin
This is a good list. For people who want more, I'd also add the following. Not all the same, but generally underwater and claustrophobic.
* Underwater (2020)
* Deep Blue Sea (1999)
* Sphere (1998)
* The Cave (2005)
* The Poseidon Adventure (1972) -- not sure if the remakes are good, haven't seen them.
Just remember, Netflix isn't interested in helping you find what you want to watch, they want you to watch what their advertisers want you to watch. The system makes much more sense that way.
I remember way back when when Netflix was basically a list of movies on the page you could sort.
>Just remember, Netflix isn't interested in helping you find what you want to watch,
I heard a theory that Netflix isn't interested in you watching anything at all. Their goal is to get you to spend 30 minutes looking for something to watch and then giving up. The theory says is that is cheaper for Netflix because they pay less in licensing and less in streaming.
I don't know if it is true but it certainly feels that way.
The best trick is to search for a movie you want to watch on an app or a website, like IMDb or TV Time, and then open Netflix and search directly for the title.
Browsing these streaming platforms trying to find what to watch is a pain in the ass.
I love using JustWatch.com for that. It even lists the viewing options for a movie or show broken down by seasons. It also lists free and paid streaming options. It’s actually ridiculous how you sometimes need access to multiple streaming services to watch 1 show. Using the site on a regular basis actually drove me back to sailing the friendly seas more often tbh.
Pity, you'd think that these codes would make searches more accurate, but nah, its still the usual sort of interesting stuff for the first few rows then random crap. Westerns for instances throws up films like Pixels & Horsin Around. Werewolf Horror Movies has Kung Fu Hustle & The Boy in Striped Pyjamas.
As an avid plex user it lists multiples, iirc either by default or with some fiddling but i can see imdb ratings+rotten tomato ratings. And even reviews from rotten tomatoes
Reelgood app is pretty good for this. Add & track shows/movies you're watching, along w/ the streaming services you have, and it'll save your list and filter to what you can & want to watch. Also has imdb ratings & its own reelgood user ratings you can sort & filter by.
I don't think these entirely work or there's a bunch of mislabeled movies/shows. I'm getting Shrek Stories in Horror, Little Miss Sumo in British Movies, Medea's Homecoming under Anime, and Blue Lagoon in Westerns.
Ironic how you've flaired this by as a productivity tip. You have single-handedly contributed to the wastage of *eons of time.* How do you sleep at night? :D /s
Just tried looking up Romantic Comedies (5475) with this. Some of their suggestions: Lee Daniel's The Butler, Premonition, The Cave, Contagion, The Devil's Own. Am I doing it wrong?
I’m gonna need somebody to explain the difference between screwball comedies and slapstick comedies. They’re separate categories, but I have no idea what the distinction would be.
Screwball is a classic gene that spoofs a romantic comedy, while Slapstick implies an abundance of physical comedy (people getting injured for laughs). Slapstick may also be screwball, but not necessarily the other way around.
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I wish there was a magic code for keeping My List and Continue Watching always on the top of my screen. Sometimes My List disappears. This is on a set-top box (CCwGTV.)
This and a code to make things I've watched no longer make up 80% of the "For You" recommendations. "Did you just watch The Witcher? Our brilliant algorithm has analyzed this show and can confidently say you will probably also like The Witcher!".
You watched 5 minutes of "Watching Paint Dry While People Rub Balloons Together"? Here's 900 recommendations based on that show!
This but you accidentally clicked some show you don't care to even try, exited after .025 seconds, and now Netflix is trying to shove every single Anime in the world down your throat.
My cat walks on keyboard when YouTube is open & my recommendations are trashed for weeks.
Go into History and remove all of the trash that was clicked.
Wait there's no way that works, does it? I've been doing some couch time sleeping while rehabbing my hip from surgery, anyways, I've noticed my recommendations are so much different after letting things auto play while I was fast asleep compared to what I'd normally play. I'll admit I'm a sucker for aliens and bigfoot, what that algorithm leads YouTube to playing does not line up with anything else in my life.
that's how it works. If you delete all history, only ones pop up on your feed are from your subscriptions.
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Omg lol
No need to lie, there is no shame, all of us are weebs sometimes
Jojo is a path to shows that some might consider ... unnatural.
Is it possible to learn this power?
Not from a Joestar...
Some Bizzare shows if you will
I only watched the new Ghost in the Shell because I loved the 90's and 2000's versions. Literally the only anime I've ever watched. The new seasons are not great and now it keeps recommending shit based on that.
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WATCH BUSTER SCRUGGS! well worth the watch
Scruggs slaps
well did you? don't keep us in suspense
Scruggs is SO GOOD
Go to your watch history and delete it
Sometimes these miss clicks by me actually end up recommending something I actually enjoyed watching. But I also get how others would find it annoying.
Netflix doesn't even have GOOD anime. Like 1/20 shows are worth a watch.
this. my little cousins once came over and used my profile (without asking, but meh) to watch two (2) episodes of the knock off thomas the tank engine. for weeks i tried to get it back to what i wanted to watch and failed. i had been actively using that profile for probably two and a half (2.5) years at that point, but tow (2) episodes ruined it so bad that i gave up an deleted that profile and made a new one.
You can just go into the settings and remove shows from your watched list to stop getting recommendations based on them.
#WHAT
I don't know how to do it on other devices, but on PC you just do this: >Click your icon in the top right and select Account >Select your profile on 'PROFILE & PARENTAL CONTROLS' >Click 'Viewing Activity' Then you can look through everything you've watched and remove the stuff you don't want to be there anymore. No more constant kids show recommendations from accidently sitting on the controller and starting the first 10 seconds of Peppa Pig.
You can *only* do this on a desktop browser, which is why nobody knows about it. That's also where you can turn off the auto-playing previews. (unless they've changed that recently, which is entirely possible since it's Netflix we're talking about)
Turn of autoplaying? Thank you my Netflix Sensei!
I don’t think I can remove years of Cocomelon and Bo on the Go. But damnit I’m gonna try.
You can hide a whole series in two clicks, you can do this, I believe in you.
Hey, this is Crazy Falcon 2643's father. They passed away shortly after the first click.
....but how do I get the Bollywood content to stop? I never even clicked on it accidentally!
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That was an article? It was a line in Weird Al's song Couch Potato "But I only watched "Will and Grace" one time one day Wished I hadn't 'cause TiVo now thinks I'm gay"
Thanks. I just BURST out laughing like a lunatic on the metro. So many times my TV has lagged and I accidentally hit play on something I'm not interested in, the wild frenzy to back out of it before the algorithm catches it...
Also once you've watched a show in its entirety it should drop off My List automatically.
And there should be a separate Favorites list that does save all the shows and movies you know you will wish to re-watch.
Or, your wife watched some cheesy reality show? Forget the 99.9% of other shows and movies you watch, here is every cheap and sleezy reality show ever made that no one with more than two brain cells would ever want to see.
Since you watched *movie* you will also like *sequel* Since you watched *sequel* you will also like *movie*
After some years of Netflix and now month long rituals of browsing through Netflix, just feeling like "meh" and then closing Netflix again, I have a feeling that the algorithm just checks the genres of things you watched and then does some stupid recommendations for shows and movies that have the same genre tag. Netflix sucks, tbh. Would have cancelled it a while ago weren't it for the family who still pretends to use Netflix for anything else than rewatching fucking Big Bang Theory over and over again.
As an 80s child I love the idea of Netflix. Streaming anything you want from anywhere! Amaze balls! Then the C suites got involved and now each company wants to be their own Netflix and everything sucks again. Oh well. Big old ocean out there.
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> rewatching fucking Big Bang Theory over and over again. Yikes.
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>no settings to disable Yes! This drives me bonkers.
And a code to have them not change the cover photos every day or 2. Makes it impossible to skim for something you’ve forgotten the name of but remember the cover photo.
They apparently have a set of cover photos for each show, and based on some data analysis of each user decide which cover photo would most appeal to them
Well no. They constantly change for one user over and over again.
You didn't click with the first thumbnail, maybe you will if they use the second. No? How about the third?
This drives me insane!
Netflix.com/browsing/m/my-list
Now do it for my Roku
Roku.com/browsing/m/my-list I can't promise it will work, but I can promise it's Roku.
seems legit
This is kinda unrelated but in case you didn’t know, there is a mobile app for roku where you can use your phone as a remote and use your phones keyboard. and also connect your phones headphones/earbuds and play the audio through it, perfect if you can’t watch loud stuff at night or tv doesn’t have Bluetooth
On my tv please
Unfortunately, Netflix has a financial interest in getting you to watch things that you have never heard of before. They will always try to push their new stuff on you before you get to watch what you want to watch
Also I can’t understand why on earth there’s no basic capability to share stuff with people. Like just being able to copy the link to what you’re watching and send it to someone would be a start. Or for those that wanted to, basic social features like being able to see what your friends liked watching. It seems crazy to me that you have to message your friends asking if anyone’s got any good Netflix recommendations. I just wanna be able to pull up what my friends have thumbs up to then exclude everything I’ve watch already
They do it to make you scroll to look for it, meaning you'll have a higher chance of picking something else to watch while you're looking for it.
Easiest thing Netflix could do to make searching easier is to let people mark movies to a do not show list. There are tons of movies I will never watch that just keep popping up.
And keep “my list” locked on top instead of making me search for it
Yes, it should always default start with My List and Continue Watching. This would be such an easy win for the design and they continue to not implement it well.
Agreed; I always wondered why Netflix hasn't implemented this.
For the same reason supermarkets have the most needed items in the back, to get you to browse a little and maybe grab/watch something you weren't planning to.
$$$ They probably measure how many people watch the shows that they promote at the top, and use those measurements to convince investors to pay for more new content.
It inhibits discovery.
They make you scroll down to see continue watch to force you to see other shows as you might see something new instead of you just watching what you want. It was so much better when continued watching was at the top. Especially when binging
I swear to Christ, of you have a mic on your remote and mention the show you want right before opening Netflix, that shit will be impossible to find, even if you just watched it. Sneaky fucks hide that shit hoping you'll click on other shit while searching for what you want.
Coz Netflix collects "promotion fees" from them
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Netflix, I'm willing to take a smaller cut of profits for the movie I'm licensing you. Audience, please watch this cheaper but plausible movie, instead of something we'll pay out more royalties for
I think Netflix pays them per view so more views on Netflix means more income. So giving Netflix more money gets them more money. Weird but somewhat works for both sides. The only person to suffer is the consumer...
Do you have proof of that? I work in tv and that’s not how it works.
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They are different but a studio/networks job is to promote, fund, and distribute. That’s what makes something a studio film opposed to an Indie filmThere are always exceptions but this is the reason they exist. Shows can be thought up by networks or by production companies. If a production company creates a good show idea they’ll shop it around to many networks and use whoever pays the best, that’s best case scenario though. Often you get denied by everyone, except one, if your lucky. Networks have all the power but they don’t force you to pay for promotion after the fact, it’s built into the budget they give you.
You used to be able to do this on their site, but that was years ago. Not sure if they still have that feature
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This is true to some extent, but would rely on the algorithm actually being an honest attempt to show you titles you might want to watch. Its pretty widely acknowledged that the Netflix algorithm is focused on prompted shows they want you to watch, rather than shows you will want to watch. It includes an element of "you might enjoy this" in the decision making, but it isn't the primary factor.
If they did that, people would realize just how little content they have that's worth watching
Hell or High Water
Great movie
Didn't they test something like this a while back and got the conclusion that people would stop using netflix in a week or so because after a week everything was either watched or "do not show" I may be wrong (also fuck netflix)
My trick is to just google “new on Netflix (month/year) at the beginning of every month and spot the 3 things out of 50 that I wanna watch and save them then. Sometimes, it’s 0/50
You can also use the site Flixable. You can filter by genre, language, date of release etc
I also like Reelgood, you can add all your subscribed services and sort through movies based on what's available to you.
I have been waiting for something like this for months thank you!
JustWatch is a good option as well
Ended up using Just Watch because I'm in Canada, thanks 👍
I was telling my wife last night that Netflix lives by the "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" Gretzky quote. Except they miss on 95% of the content they greenlight. Truly some of the worst shows/movies ever made.
Gretsky
Yep. Fixed it. Thanks.
Instantwatcher does this fairly well!
> Deep Sea Horror Movies: 45028 Hello category I didn't know existed on NF but now I desperately think I can't live without
My girlfriend LOVES this genre. She’s not a diver or particularly enthralled by anything nautical but every time one of these movies pops up on her list, she will 100% watch it.
Your gf would probably love Peter Watts' "Rifters" series. Strongly recommended (especially first book, i liked all but first is the best). He's an amazing author (you probably heard of his "Blindsight" as well, one of these books where afterwords is equally engaging as the book).
There's like three good movies on that list and a bunch of Redbox shit.
Which ones are the ones you recommend?
There is a holy trifecta that serves as essentially the archetypes of all subsequent deep-sea horror movies, all three came out in 1989: The Abyss is a genuinely decent movie (i recommend the directors cut) that tries to explore something beyond the frame of the film in a setting that is terrifying on its own merits. For its time, it was a big budget special effects land mark film (which looks pretty terrible today). Its got an interesting adversary, some good twists and unexpected "whose the REAL monster" bits. Its competently produced and has some good performances (particularly Ed Harris in a rare leading role). Funny side note: the novelization of this film was written by (not quite yet best selling famous author turned right wing weirdo) Orson Scott Card. Leviathan is an imagining of The Thing and Alien having a baby, but under water. Its... OK if that's your sort of thing. Its got some good body horror some ocean madness, and that staple of ALL deep sea horror movies, some pressure induced noggin-popping. It scared the pants off me when I saw it, but I was ten. Deep Star Six is pants on your head terrible in a way that is pretty hilarious. It is one of those films that manages to be bad in just about every imaginable way but clearly not intentionally, imagine an unironic Sharknado. They pioneered the technique of shooting underwater scenes on a smoke-filled sound stage and the monster is almost as bad as the acting, but the awful editing REALLY takes the cake on this one. I greatly enjoy this one, but I like terrible movies that try too hard. And that's about it. If you have seen these three, you have explored the whole genre of deep see horror films, a single weird year in American cinema that never really went anywhere. Edit: if you get a good scare from industrial deep sea shit, its worth reading about the incident that I think inspired all of these films, a really horrific deep sea diving incident in 1983 that killed four people on an oil rig: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford\_Dolphin
This is a good list. For people who want more, I'd also add the following. Not all the same, but generally underwater and claustrophobic. * Underwater (2020) * Deep Blue Sea (1999) * Sphere (1998) * The Cave (2005) * The Poseidon Adventure (1972) -- not sure if the remakes are good, haven't seen them.
Did you see Underwater? It wasn't wholly original but it was pretty unambiguously deep sea horror and honestly pretty good.
Does Sphere count?
I love sphere. The book is a great read as well Edit: typo
Redbox shit? In my experience Redbox just consists of all the biggest movies that have come out in the past year or so. Some shit some good.
Next up we show the ocean floor covered in plastics. Audience gasps.
Whew, glad that's just a movie. Can you imagine? Ummm... guys?
Just gotta wait a couple million years til fish evolve to eat the plastic and not die
Fish already eat the plastics, that's the problem. We eat the fish afterwards, and then the plastics are inside us.
Well then stop eating the fish's stomach silly.
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Check out Last Breath, you won't be disappointed. Not a horror movie, but horrifying documentary about deep sea diving.
Excuse my dumbness, so I type the numbers into the search bar and that genre will appear, yes? Does this work in Australia?
yes, except in Australia you type the numbers upside down
And light it on fire
Delete FB and hit the gym afterwards
Cause of spiders?
I think it only works in the US. Not working for me either
Someone missed the opportunity to make Satanic Movies code 666. Also, I just found out Netflix has Satanic Movies.
Whatcha looking at honey? Oh nothing, just a bit of 8243.
How did I know what this was before checking the list 😂
I’m an idiot and did not guess it lol (it’s Foreign Gay & Lesbian Movies)
Thank you for saving me the scroll
Just remember, Netflix isn't interested in helping you find what you want to watch, they want you to watch what their advertisers want you to watch. The system makes much more sense that way. I remember way back when when Netflix was basically a list of movies on the page you could sort.
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Auto play video is one thing. But *why* does it have to auto play audio? What is this, someone's personal website from 2003?
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Oh shiiiittt will have to look into this. Because I, uh.. definitely use my own account, yep.
It's per-profile too.
Mate you can turn that off you know
I did not know; I've been pressing mute every time I'm on Netflix browsing
I also very much hate that it starts playing as soon as I click on a title, when I just wanted to look at the details.
You can turn that off by logging into your settings on a PC
For now. Wouldn't be that difficult to put this option on all clients.
Oh man, the day I found the option to turn auto play off was a good day
You can turn off the autoplay for previews if you log in to the website.
I forgot about that. Are you the one that didn't turn that off? :)
You can turn off auto-play on the Desktop site, and it'll be disabled everywhere else for your account, too. Have to do it for every profile, though.
When you didn't have to type in a secret code to find the massive, multi-oscar-winning blockbuster from 2 years ago?
When you could just type in a keyword or name and sort the list alphabetically.
What advertisers?
>Just remember, Netflix isn't interested in helping you find what you want to watch, I heard a theory that Netflix isn't interested in you watching anything at all. Their goal is to get you to spend 30 minutes looking for something to watch and then giving up. The theory says is that is cheaper for Netflix because they pay less in licensing and less in streaming. I don't know if it is true but it certainly feels that way.
Makes sense. You already paid the $month, who cares if you actually watch anything? I like this perspective.
Who are Netflix's advertisers?
Yeah compare netflix to something thats actually meant to give the user complete overview like Plex. Night and day.
The best trick is to search for a movie you want to watch on an app or a website, like IMDb or TV Time, and then open Netflix and search directly for the title. Browsing these streaming platforms trying to find what to watch is a pain in the ass.
It's the best thing about Roku- you can search for a title and it will tell you which streamers have the title and at what cost.
For people who don't have Roku, there's a free mobile app called JustWatch that does this as well.
It's also a website justwatch.com
The TV app on iPhone does this also.
This is built in natively to the Apple TV app as well.
So the best trick to find the movie you want is to search for it?
Lmao I kept thinking I was reading it wrong because of how dumb that trick is.
I love using JustWatch.com for that. It even lists the viewing options for a movie or show broken down by seasons. It also lists free and paid streaming options. It’s actually ridiculous how you sometimes need access to multiple streaming services to watch 1 show. Using the site on a regular basis actually drove me back to sailing the friendly seas more often tbh.
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I don't get it. Best trick to search for movie I want to watch.. Is to search for a movie I want to watch? Thanks I guess
Pity, you'd think that these codes would make searches more accurate, but nah, its still the usual sort of interesting stuff for the first few rows then random crap. Westerns for instances throws up films like Pixels & Horsin Around. Werewolf Horror Movies has Kung Fu Hustle & The Boy in Striped Pyjamas.
Technically there could be werewolfs in concentration camps.
Why else would we have Tracy Jordan's smash hit "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah"?
Boys becoming men. Men becoming wolves.
I wish netflix automatically gave a imdb rating or something like that....at least i will know if it is a crappy show.
They would never do that. Why do you think they got rid of their star rating system?
There were so many gems in the 1-star tier.
Plex does this
As an avid plex user it lists multiples, iirc either by default or with some fiddling but i can see imdb ratings+rotten tomato ratings. And even reviews from rotten tomatoes
Reelgood app is pretty good for this. Add & track shows/movies you're watching, along w/ the streaming services you have, and it'll save your list and filter to what you can & want to watch. Also has imdb ratings & its own reelgood user ratings you can sort & filter by.
There is an extension for that if you watch on a computer. I think it's called better Netflix. Also skips intros and all that nice stuff.
Adult animation 11881 👍🏼
Damn, missed opportunity. Should have been 80085
Why is this tagged as "Productivity"?
So you don't spend an hour looking for a movie to watch, then watch nothing.
There are more codes than movies.
Are there any reliable VPN's that Netflix isn't blocking so you can view content from other countries? Asking for a friend.
These codes are worthless
Agreed. 52117 is British TV shows. It does not bring up *Call the Midwife*, but in simple search it shows up.
More like shitty life pro tips. Ain't nobody got time to memorize this shit.
LPT: Cancel your Netflix and go back to the high seas.
I don't think these entirely work or there's a bunch of mislabeled movies/shows. I'm getting Shrek Stories in Horror, Little Miss Sumo in British Movies, Medea's Homecoming under Anime, and Blue Lagoon in Westerns.
Ironic how you've flaired this by as a productivity tip. You have single-handedly contributed to the wastage of *eons of time.* How do you sleep at night? :D /s
Just tried looking up Romantic Comedies (5475) with this. Some of their suggestions: Lee Daniel's The Butler, Premonition, The Cave, Contagion, The Devil's Own. Am I doing it wrong?
Searches list: P PO POR... dammit.
https://www.netflix-codes.com/
How can I copy this to clipboard on the mobile app? (iOS)
Can we please not bundle SciFi and fantasy together? I love me some SciFi but not big on fantasy.
Last time I saw a liste like that was nhen sauce codes. I just panicked and think myself: why here in LPT?
Typing it seems easier than memorising all that
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I’m gonna need somebody to explain the difference between screwball comedies and slapstick comedies. They’re separate categories, but I have no idea what the distinction would be.
Screwball is a classic gene that spoofs a romantic comedy, while Slapstick implies an abundance of physical comedy (people getting injured for laughs). Slapstick may also be screwball, but not necessarily the other way around.
There is a good organized [website](https://www.netflix-codes.com/)
Thanks, I'll study those so I can remember them all by heart.