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by downWidOutaFite 1162 days ago
That lawsuit killed the contest but the recommendation system went on for a while longer until they realized their streaming service didn't have enough content for the original recommendation algorithm to work and they wanted to promote their own stuff.
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Afaict the current algorithm is something like this:

if is_netflix_show() { return 0.95 + rand(0.00, 0.05) } else { hide_rating() }