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I really miss the stars on Netflix. Now I usually open up a browser and look up the movie before I start watching. So sad!

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I don't have Nexflix, but I do have Amazon Prime (and an Amazon Fire HD stick), and I love the fact that it shows ratings from both Prime users and IMDB - it would be a major PITA to have to look up everything one-by-one on my phone!

Off the top of my head, I think it shows IMDB ratings for shows from other services too (e.g. Disney+, BBC iPlayer).

IMDB is owned by Amazon. I would assume that's why nobody else has something similar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMDb

Of course, they don't allow you to filter and/or sort on those ratings. Argh.

I find IMDB ratings are often over inflated, rotten tomatoes ratings are much better but not perfect.

I use Trim [1] for Chrome to add ratings in the netflix interface. It also dims recommendations that are below my specified stars. Works really well!

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/trim-imdb-ratings-...

nice! Thanks for sharing!

I've always preferred the five-star scale over a simple thumbs-up, down. The stars never went away on the dvd.netflix.com interface (I still have a disc plan along with streaming). I think the red stars for movies/shows I haven't rated reflect Netflix's guess for how I'll rate them but further down there's small print that shows Neflix's guess numerically and the numeric average rating for all users.

I don't miss that. I'd rather watch the first 5 minutes of a movie and see if it's for me. If I see 3 stars I will automatically not want to watch it but I may enjoy such a movie or TV show.

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