Out of curiosity:

The extension makes API requests to http://www.omdbapi.com/ for its data.

The free API key only allows 1,000 req/day but you apparently only need to spend $10/mo for unlimited queries: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=5038490

I've never seen Patreon used as a storefront like this. Kinda interesting because Patreon also gives you a UI for capturing other types of sponsorships.

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I don't use Chrome anymore except for dev work. Any chance this could be released for Firefox?

An aside to the extension itself, but this makes me nostalgic for the days when browser extensions like this were commonplace. Today I don't even watch Netflix through a browser (I have a Roku and Android TV at home, and will very rarely watch on my iOS phone), and this kind of project simply isn't possible there.

I do understand the reasons why this is the case and don't have any proposals for how it could be meaningfully fixed, but still, I miss that bygone era of customisation.

I've been using RateFlix for a while now - haven't seen many issues as of yet. I love these type of ideas. When you add Rotten Tomatoes, I'm totally in to use!

1. Movies and TV shows will show an IMDb™ rating next to wherever you would typically see a Netflix™ rating, and additionally will be shown on the play bar of what you're currently watching as well as next to each listed episode when browsing episodes of a TV series

2. Rotten Tomatoes™ and Metacritic™ ratings will also be displayed in the same way, but currently only for movies

3. Clicking on an IMDb™ rating will open the IMDb™ page for that movie or TV show in a new tab

For Chrome only https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rateflix/dddmgiige...

Neat! I always end up doing the google search to check out IMDb/RT ratings.

Another nice to have is the number of reviewers - I've noticed that some of these movies have high ratings early on (potentially from crew/cast/fans) but then slowly drop to the mean as more people review the movie.

I like how you scoped perms to only affect netflix.com and omdbapi.com. good job! Usually when I hit install and see "read and modify your data on all sites" I go straight to nope!

I think it would be cool if this was generic enough to show Rotten Tomatoes user ratings as many people nowadays find it to be a better indicator. I hope you repurpose it someday!

I really like Taste.io's movie and TV recommendations. Having just reviewed a few movies on the site, it has given me better and more unique recommendations than Netflix or Amazon ever have.

Their site also shows whether the movie is available on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, or HBO and will deep link to the other sites. I'm not sure what Taste.io's business model is.

https://www.taste.io/

For me, the most useful feature of Netflix is the custom ratings it provides. They're almost always absolutely spot on, with the exception of "Netflix Originals" which seem to be bumped up a bit.

I'm curious why something like IMDB is useful for people. I would much rather get a metric related to what I, personally, might like, rather than what the majority likes.

OT, but for anyone looking for an idea: it'll be neat if some service can notify me when a movie I saved on IMDB is available on Netflix.

Great idea but I wish the data source was better, e.g. Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic, because IMDB ratings are almost useless.

Perhaps this could include scores from multiple sources, similar to how google displays them when you search for a movie.

This is a cool idea. But worked once - did'nt work for a LOT of titles i tried. Seems to be some bug.

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Love it!

Bug:

- Does not show the rating for all movies. Examples:

-- https://www.netflix.com/title/80189213 (empty)

-- https://www.netflix.com/title/70136120 (N/A)

Feature requests:

- Show "IMDB rating" right away and a spinner while you're fetching the data from the API call.

- Let me click on it and go to IMDB to see more information

Update : I got "HN hug of death" and OMDB api free limit is crossed. Working on converting it to premium.

does that work with international, non US markets? non english Netflix versions?

it's being super super slow for me, otherwise, cool idea

Netflix won't work with Chrome(ium) on Linux.

Interesting, because I've found imdb ratings to be the best because it's based on user votes.

Movie critics, on the other hand, seem to vote the complete opposite of regular viewers (and each other) to set themselves apart. Or voting some awful art house movie a 10/10 to signal that they, too, understood the high brow nuances that the groundlings could not. I end up agreeing with the user votes far more often than the critic scores on RT and Metacritic, and the user scores tend to line up with imdb anyways.

Ha. I had the exact same thought. Metacritic has become my go to. It's not as simple as seeing average critic reviews though. If there is a huge disparity between average critic and average user reviews, it tends to be significant (eg critics panning something that's hugely entertaining or fawning over something that's really trash).

But I've pretty much stoped looking at IMDB entirely. One example: what I call the sci-fi fudge factor (SFFF), namely that if something is sci-fi or fantasy (or superheroes come to think of it) it tends to be a full rating point worse than its rating would suggest. Another: there are a lot of things in the 7s where something could be really good or really bad and I'm not sure why.

Most rating systems I have discovered rarely apply to my specific tastes or needs. More and more I follow specific reviewers or, more interestingly, individual review comments. I find one or two short reviews (without spoilers) to show what the reviewers deem important to them, giving their rating more qualitative weight, and therefore I can compare it better to my specific tastes. If I went off the average/median rating alone, I'd never find fresh, unique content.

RT is owned by Warner and Universal. IMDB is owned by Amazon. I find it hard to believe user scores aren’t massaged when required when the parent companies are spending billions on creating movies/TV.

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A vote for the "Google user score" - I've found the Google user score to be most accurate, personally.

What difference do you see between Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB ratings?

Thanks for feedback, adding Rotten Tomatoes is in my TODO list