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On a tangent: I dream of a web where whenever there are sets of items (eg eberts-great-movies, and movies-on-amazon) you can easily apply set operations (like i

On a tangent: I dream of a web where whenever there are sets of items (eg eberts-great-movies, and movies-on-amazon) you can easily apply set operations (like intersection) on them (so if ‘n’ stands for ‘intersection’, eg eberts-great-movies n movies-on-amazon). So, in effect if you’re on a site that deals with a set of items, like the amazon prime movies, you can tell the browser to intersect this set with a different set at another URL. I understand that doing this would require the right ‘infrastructure’ to be in place.

castratikron 6y ago
I don't know why there's no good way to know what's streaming on a certain service. Seems like the only way is through third party sites that are probably made up of people manually adding to the list. If everyone is going to make their own streaming service then there needs to be a standard interface to make them collectively easier to use. A "guide", if you will.
- pjc50 6y ago
  Unfortunately their profit incentive is the opposite: to train you to watch what they choose to recommend, rather than take a step back and look at what isn't there. See the hollowing of the Netflix catalog.
- Exmoor 6y ago
  There was briefly an MPAA backed service for this whose name is escaping me, which I used quite a bit. Unfortunately it fairly quickly devolved into only giving links to services where you had to pay per-movie to watch.
theshrike79 6y ago
Ironically the pirate movie scene has tools like this[1][2], downloading new stuff based on certain rules is completely automated. All the paid options hold on to their APIs way too tight to let anything like this to be viable. I'd love to have a service that would cross-reference my queue of movies and TV shows and tell me which service has the most matches so that I'd know which one to pay for each month. [1] https://radarr.video https://radarr.video [2] https://couchpota.to https://couchpota.to
jacquesm 6y ago
This so-called semantic web was all the rage but somewhere between then and now walled gardens screwed it all up.

castratikron 6y ago

I don't know why there's no good way to know what's streaming on a certain service. Seems like the only way is through third party sites that are probably made up of people manually adding to the list. If everyone is going to make their own streaming service then there needs to be a standard interface to make them collectively easier to use. A "guide", if you will.

pjc50 6y ago
Unfortunately their profit incentive is the opposite: to train you to watch what they choose to recommend, rather than take a step back and look at what isn't there. See the hollowing of the Netflix catalog.
Exmoor 6y ago
There was briefly an MPAA backed service for this whose name is escaping me, which I used quite a bit. Unfortunately it fairly quickly devolved into only giving links to services where you had to pay per-movie to watch.

theshrike79 6y ago

Ironically the pirate movie scene has tools like this[1][2], downloading new stuff based on certain rules is completely automated. All the paid options hold on to their APIs way too tight to let anything like this to be viable. I'd love to have a service that would cross-reference my queue of movies and TV shows and tell me which service has the most matches so that I'd know which one to pay for each month. [1] https://radarr.video https://radarr.video [2] https://couchpota.to https://couchpota.to

jacquesm 6y ago

This so-called semantic web was all the rage but somewhere between then and now walled gardens screwed it all up.