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I felt the same way when I had it. Netflixs engineering blogs were always really well documented, I wonder why their search was always so bad. Does anyone have an idea?

Also this made me wonder how many people on HN don't actively use an ad blocker. Is there a reason why you don't use one?

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Netflix had a hack day and one guy made a really cool and simple keyboard shaped in a circle with the cursor in the middle. Every letter was one joystick movement from the center. They buried it. That and other UI blunders convinced me the difficulty searching for things is by design so you give up and watch their absolute shit piles of "original" content where the title and thumbnail tell the entire story.

I pay for OK Google mainly so it will play Youtube library music tracks. It also includes no ads and some sort of payment for content creators.

It's a way to hide the lack of content, especially if they lack whatever it is that you're searching for. They're hoping that you'll settle with their catalog, anyway.

It's hard to run an adblocker on my Tivo where I watch most of my youtube videos.

SmartTube Next?

>> Also this made me wonder how many people on HN don't actively use an ad blocker. Is there a reason why you don't use one?

I’d rather pay.

there was a recent comment thread on why recommendations are so bad and the most likely reason seem to be product placement and other monetary considerations.

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