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by untog 2677 days ago
An aside to the extension itself, but this makes me nostalgic for the days when browser extensions like this were commonplace. Today I don't even watch Netflix through a browser (I have a Roku and Android TV at home, and will very rarely watch on my iOS phone), and this kind of project simply isn't possible there.

I do understand the reasons why this is the case and don't have any proposals for how it could be meaningfully fixed, but still, I miss that bygone era of customisation.
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ehsankia 2677 days ago
Realistically, the platform itself should show these (imdb, rottentomat and metacritic). Instead they show some personalized likeness metric that never works.
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rkagerer 2677 days ago
In nearly 30 years of computing experience, one thing I've learned is the guys who make the platform never capture all the little details of what you'd like that platform to do.

IMO iPhones never really shined until they opened it up to 3rd party developers and built an ecosystem of developers around the app store.

One thing I love[d] about Windows was how deeply you could tailor the experience (through hooks, DLL injection, etc). Haven't played with Linux as much but love the concept that you can overhaul the whole source code to taste.

GreaseMonkey is analogous for the web.

I hope this concept isn't lost as corporations wrest control of both sides of the user experience (browser and services).

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darkpuma 2677 days ago
IMDB is owned by Amazon, a competitor to Netflix, so don't hold your breath for that one.
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oh_sigh 2677 days ago
I don't think so - you'll end up with a situation where the platform gets to decide which rating service is important and which isn't. Most people might not want pluggedin(christian-value friendly rating) ratings, but it might be the #1 rating source for some.

A better method would be to embed a unique id for the movie in a rating s widget, and let the user configure in their user agent which services they would like to query for ratings.

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bufferoverflow 2676 days ago
Not only that, but Chrome and Firefox are limited to 720p by Netflix. That's why I only watch it in Edge browser.

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742

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