Slightly related, but does anyone know how come Netflix's search algorithm (for lack of a better word) and its general search-related UI is so bad? A specific use-case that I had a few days ago was that I wanted to watch a nice comedy movie, preferably not from the last few years.
There was no easy filter on time periods, nor a filter on the country where that movie was made (I was thinking of filtering on France or Italy at some point), no way to tell Netflix "show me all the movies employing this actor" that you have in your catalogue, nothing of the sorts. In the end I think I searched for "Belmondo comedy" or something asinine like that, which, sure enough, after some horizontal scrolling (?!?!) ended up by recommending me a Tom Hanks comedy from the 1980s. I did not watch Netflix that evening.
How do people find stuff on this platform?
/edit: It still plays videos on hover after changing it. Only now there is no player popup anymore.