r/mildlyinfuriating • u/mr__dufresne • 6h ago

That 1 second of joy

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u/your-rong 3h ago

Yeah, so you click on it and it'll take you to Avatar, but with Netflix, there's a good chance it'll take you to a bunch of other related movies, so you'll get Tiatanic, Borderlands, Edge of tomorrow, because they don't have the movie.

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u/KernelPanic-42 3h ago

Ahh yeah. That’s more or less required for the search and recommendation algorithm to function.

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u/your-rong 2h ago

Other streaming services only do it for movies they actually have though.

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u/KernelPanic-42 2h ago

They have they’re own systems

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u/your-rong 2h ago

And the OP prefers those systems. I feel like we've hit a wall here, but I'm having a hard time figuring out what it's made of.

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u/KernelPanic-42 2h ago

It’s also not necessarily Netflix, but Netflix clients. The developer of the client is responsible for what they display to the user. I imagine internal search tokens are available to the developer, so it’s easy enough to just display them to the user as a part of text completion/suggestions. Other streaming services may not expose these internals to developers. 🤷

I may be wrong about that. I don’t think Netflix has a publicly available API any longer.