> First Netflix UI is anti-consumer and regularly hides things or makes them difficult/impossible to find.
Your working hypothesis is that Netflix is willfully trying to keep people from spending more their platform?
Your working hypothesis is that Netflix is willfully trying to keep people from spending more their platform?
The whole point of the UI is to give you this un-ending sense of abundance, ie. "You like 1980s action comedies? Scroll through 20 of them here! Like 1990s female-driven drama? Here's 10 we picked for you! Keep scrolling! We have everything!"
In reality, their catalog (while having about 10,000 items) is quite limited in terms of big name films and TV shows you'd recognize.
I sometimes scroll around on the wifes account to see if there is anything interesting there, because that is about the only place I ever see anything new on netflix. My account never shows me anything that isn't really bad b-movie fiction and documentaries. Where as my wife only gets the comedy and romance, the kids get all the "family" movies and animation. <sigh>
There is probably more there, but the only way to find it is 3rd party sites. If I happen to type something into the search bar there is pretty much a 99% chance netflix won't have it. At least on prime they seem to have a fairly deep catalog of older movies, even if 3/4 of them are pay per view.
This happens to me sometimes on my laptop. I thought it might be a bug but looks like its intentional.
You must be lovely to work with all that brilliant assumptive power you’ve got.