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59 pointsjosh_blum21 comments

There are dozens of Greasemonkey scripts on userscripts.org dating back to 2005 that do exactly this and more (On Chrome, you can use the Tampermonkey extension; On Firefox, it's just called Greasemonkey). No to belittle your work or anything, but why is this interesting or newsworthy?

Also, I suspect that some of the comments here are either fake or staged. However, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. If my skepticism and critique here are based on misunderstandings, I apologize.

There are dozens of Greasemonkey scripts on userscripts.org dating back to 2005 that do exactly this and more

You answered your own question: this is kind of different because it is not a greasemonkey script and thus targeted at a different audience.

Never heard of TamperMonkey before. It looks like you can replicate it there but it's not straightforward. I'd rather use his extension.

Any reason the add-on for Firefox is 4.2 MB? It would by and far be the largest extension I've encountered.

edit: looks like there is a v0.1.2 coming which is much smaller 404.3 KB https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/netflix-rate/...

I had some screenshots within the repo for convenience but removed them in v0.1.2 I'm still waiting for the Add-On store to review this version which is why it's not the one displayed currently.

Perfect timing! I was thinking of spending a weekend myself for an extension like this. You saved me a much pain, Thanks!

It would be great if you can add the IMDb rating at bottom right corner of the title image, instead of me having to hover on title to see. It kind of gets annoying to check each and every title for ratings.

Good idea, I can put that in the next update. I usually hover to see more info first that's why I put in the ratings there. Thanks!

Thanks! Looking forward to the update!

Great idea but the reviews in the chrome store indicate that it sometimes shows the incorrect ratings. If it works well I'd use it but I'd rather have no extra ratings if I can't trust them.

A lot of the reviews are with older versions of the extension, I have tried to iron out any of these bugs. If you find anything you can send feedback to netflix-rate-feedback@mit.edu

Wow, I guess I'm somewhat surprised that MIT is willing to let users create e-mail addresses for non-academic purposes.

MIT allows us to create email lists.

Great, thanks for clearing that up! Installing now :)

Great that you included firefox too. I can't watch netflix on linux, so it helps to have the firefox option for wine.

Awesome extension. Anyone know if there's an extension that links you to the Netflix page for DVD only shows/movies?

That's a cool plug in - I generally don't trust the Netflix ratings as much as the other two.

I'm curious how sophisticated the cross-site movie-matching is and how well it works.

Its far from perfect. For the hover overlays I search first by title and then once the hover appears I search again with the year and title (Netflix doesn't give the year until the hover appears). This increases the accuracy but there are still problems, for example Netflix uses "The Office (U.S.)" which does not match IMDB's title.

Awesome idea, insta-installed.

Nice idea

Hells yeah, Metacritic would be nice too

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