I really want to support alternate search engines. And removing/filtering AI generated imagery is really important for research and history.
But DDG scrapes some bottom feeder news publications. Newsweek and MSNBC wire reposts shouldn't be the top results. Ever. Those are ghost articles and link bait.
The only reason I'd do this is to bolster Thiel's portofolio companies. With this data the spy software and AI will be the most complete version of the American population's relationships and dealings. Every financial transaction, every coffee purchase paid by digital currency can now be profiled against Palantir and Anduril's tech stack.
Honestly who cares about a few billion in savings when it comes to a nation's dealings. It was always about the data.
The implementation of services on Apple TV has been a awesome. We open one app when we sit down to watch our shows. It works with little-to-no technical understanding or effort.
But we don't browse for stuff to watch very often. Netflix wants to get those views and autoplays. It's all about the stats boosts.
We dropped Netflix a long time ago. It became a made-for-tv content sausage factory with the occasional gem. Once a year we fire it up to binge the stuff our friends talk about all the time. Each time we are consistently reminded it's not worth the higher subscription price.
I watched it plenty in the late 00s when it had awesome content, and I was afraid to cancel even if I wasn't actively using it because it had the best recommendations.
Since then, they've constantly hiked the price and have lost their content edge. My parents watched my account though, so I kept it around as a gift to them + a way to have something to do on overnight flights. They finally locked my parents out (after talking it up in the press for months), so they've lost any reason to stay on my credit card.
Feels like there's been generational churn in leadership among the places that were great in the 00s - Netflix and Google both come to mind. The people who did cool, novel stuff have retired, and the traditional execs who will squeeze every dime they can out of customers (and employee perks) have shown up.
Netflix is by far one of the worst streaming services in terms of what they have, although they're still running a very slick interface, who cares if what it leads to is garbage? Even when you find something good, especially a series, you can't expect that it'll go anywhere: Netflix loves to cancel.
They figured out that additional seasons of successful series also command high costs and actor salaries. So they prefer to spin just another cheap TV series that will keep people binge watching.
Marvel's quality is varied and has dipped in the last couple of years. It's not high art by any means but I find calling it "drivel" in such a dismissive way to be a shallow take.
Os the interface slick though? It's maybe visually slick over actually being good ux. It loudly autoplays it's slow and the expanding animations are nauseating
No, they want you to watch all the time and continue interested in the stuff they're releasing. It is their way to make sure Netflix is relevant to subscribers and they'll keep talking about the content in the platform.
The problem is the quality of that content. The op is right, Netflix became a factory of cheap series that keep people binge watching. The original idea of a service to watch movies is completely lost. I stoped paying a long time ago and don't want to go back.
Netflix streaming was originally a free perk of being a dvd subscriber, because the hosting service was so much more efficient than the cost of mailing a physical object to your house and back. Now many ISPs have dedicated netflix storage appliances on site that further reduce bandwidth.
Also if you are on an ad based plan they would want you to use the service more.
I’ve really been enjoying just buying classic movies and shows on Apple TV to binge watch instead of having a ton of subscriptions. The quality is always the best available and I have a collection of awesome content to watch that I have never seen in 4k with awesome sound from an awesome device. I feel its money better spent than a subscription.
If you mean Apple TV+ (the streaming service), there is a day and night difference between it and Netflix with regards to the average quality of shows.
Maybe I’m weird, but to me all the Apple TV+ shows really comes off with the same (to me at least) vibe, like it was made in the same factory, following the same recipe.
It instantly degrades what could/might be art to mere «content» and it’s a huge turn off.
I don’t think I’ve ever finished more than 1 full season of a Apple TV+ show.
That said, I’m not claiming Netflix is any better.
Yeah, Apple doesn't want Netflix recommending their own shows for free, when Apple could be recommending their own shows, are charging Netflix to recommend theirs.
Of course Netflix doesn't want Apple to have control of the interface to the Netflix streaming service, just as much as Apple doesn't want Netflix to have control of the interface to Apple's streaming service.
This puts me in mind of the classic George Carlin bit about other drivers all being either idiots or maniacs, and how you can use their relative proportions in the population to understand what other people probably think of your own driving.
