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I'll admit, I totally fell for the propaganda around House of Cards. I was convinced that Netflix had found a way to leverage their big data into "formulas" to produce awesome shows and would be unstoppable. When I look back at the garbage they have produced over the past few years I just don't understand how they f-ed it up so much.

At this point Netflix feels so irrelevant.

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My frustration is that they used to recommend you content you’d be interest in. Once they started making more money off original content and some licensed content the recommendation algorithm morphed into being more and more biased to the content they make more money on. Other than searching for the exact content you want, all the suggestions are so bad that I frequently start browsing on Amazon first. Haven’t reached the point of cancelling but it might get to that point.

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