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by ryankrage77 897 days ago
One thing I dislike about Netflix is that there's a category for 'top ten in [your region]'. This doesn't really show the aggregate top ten pieces of media for a region, it is actually personalised to you. If I compare across accounts, the top ten are are different, sometimes overlapping but usually in a different order. This dark pattern exploits the 'join the crowd' bias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum).

Also, constant price increases and laying off large numbers of employees...

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True, that is anti-personalization