From: usenet@only.tnx   
      
   On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 16:55:50 -0800 (PST), Beaver Fever    
   wrote:   
   >I use my mom's Netflix. Rarely use it. Just awful to navigate, limited options   
   >aside from their own programs.   
      
   Yes, the unfilled promise of the name "Netflix"...   
      
   Content owners are holding back their films for a better deal on streaming   
   services they have an ownership stake in.  Meanwhile, Netflix has spent many   
   millions of dollars on their own "original content," which is promoted on their   
   service.  The ideal of being able to instantly access nearly any movie or TV   
   show from the vast body of those works has gone by the wayside.  And I agree,   
   their user interface is aggressively awful.   
      
      
   >YouTube has better stuff than everything.   
      
   In its way, Youtube is the model of what Netflix promised to be -- an on-demand   
   service with nearly *everything*.  Of course, there are copyright and ownership   
   issues, to say the least   But when you search for just about anything, you   
   will   
   find it -- or at least a fragment of it.  I use Youtube primarily to look for   
   and explore new (to me) music.  I don't try to watch movies or television shows   
   (apart from clips).  I will also look for something that interests me (a dance   
   troupe, for example) if I think there may be video of it.  And occasionally   
   I'll   
   search on something like "Russian dash cam", "kinetic sculptures," or "marble   
   machines" and watch two or three.   
      
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   When I first met you girl you didn't have no shoes   
   And now you're walking 'round like you're front-page news   
      
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