7 Things Netflix Knows About Your Viewing Habits

Star ratings are not the only way that Netflix knows which movies and TV shows to serve up next.

Star ratings are not the only way that Netflix knows which movies and TV shows to serve up next.

In an interview with Wired, Netflix engineering director Xavier Amatriain described a more “complex system of algorithms” that goes beyond ratings and rating predictions to find programming that viewers will not just aspire to watch, but will actually sit down and watch.

Netflix knows which movies you have

1. played,

2. searched for, or

3. rated.

The

4. time,

5. date, and

6. device

you were using when you watched them, and can also track your

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