This works pretty well for YT when it knows your preferences, but for streaming TV services like Netflix I find it's a box of chocolates full of shit. It's just going to be whatever is being "promoted" at the time and has the most widespread appeal, not something interesting.
Agreed, my recommendations are extremely narrow. Usually videos from the same three content creators, and ones that I've already seen or in there chronological queue that I already plan to watch.
The recommendation algorithms suggests things that are related to what I watched before. And I still need to choose one of the options that it recommends.
This works pretty well for YT when it knows your preferences, but for streaming TV services like Netflix I find it's a box of chocolates full of shit. It's just going to be whatever is being "promoted" at the time and has the most widespread appeal, not something interesting.
I wish my YouTube recommendations were anywhere good enough to do this.
Agreed, my recommendations are extremely narrow. Usually videos from the same three content creators, and ones that I've already seen or in there chronological queue that I already plan to watch.
The recommendation algorithms suggests things that are related to what I watched before. And I still need to choose one of the options that it recommends.
They recently introduced an anonymous mode
Yeah, for me loading the homepage and clicking the top-left video is almost an automatic reflex at this point.