[dahdum]

Do you feel the same way about Netflix recommendations? I'm curious where you draw the line.

[austinjp]

I can't stand Netflix's interface, and it's recommendations are absolutely terrible.

We're approaching the One True User Interface: search bar and recommendations. And it's awful.

[wink]

Netflix never gave me a popup or played recommendation of anything between two episodes of a series.

I think that's what most people mean. They want to listen to an album/several/playlist and not hear anything else. (should add: and also not see any popups. Netflix doesn't give me popups, the only place I see stuff I do not want to see is the landing page)

[gsk22]

Or YouTube? The homepage and literally every video are full of recommendations.

[austinjp]

Thanks to various plugins for Firefox, my experience of the YouTube homepage is a blank page apart from the search bar.

[kjeetgill]

That's so much worse than actually YouTube though. If I've been watching programming, physics, or history YouTube it absolutely surfaces excellent creators I'd have no other means of discovering.

YouTube isn't Wikipedia. I don't go into it wanting a specific narrow thing. Like how do you even find content you'd like otherwise?

[ryanmercer]

Absolutely. I've found probably 20-30 great channels thanks to YouTube's recommendations successfully recommending me stuff I actually enjoy.

[austinjp]

I do use it like Wikipedia, I guess. Or actually more like Google.

I'm really not into doomscrolling "content". Life's too short.