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by mewpmewp2 853 days ago
I just tried searching in browser and Netflix says nothing like "titles similar to".

I searched for "Ted Lasso".

It has grey text "More to explore:", white text "Ted Lasso" and then thumbnail list of different shows, and it's literally just thumbnails, you can't even Ctrl + F and you have to read all the titles in different colored and stylised fonts.

It's as if it is intentionally built in such a way to make it hard to understand that it's really not there.

https://imgur.com/vgohSVP

Edit:

And in TV it says nothing, just gives you the thumbnails and since it takes longer to type you must check after each character whether one of the thumbnails happens to be what you are searching for.

1 comments

I'm not home rn so I can't test it, but I'm quite sure that netflix says something like "we don't have X, these titles are similar" or smth like that. Maybe I just have an old version in my TV idk.
I've seen both. Sometimes it says it doesn't have it, other times it just displays results like it does have it even though it doesn't. You might be onto something, it's probably the difference between the web interface and app interface (on various devices).
My LG tv with webOS also doesn't give any indication that the title does not exist.