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If you've lost a kid, or can't have kids, it's a daily reminder.

But also it's just annoying. In some apps it's remembering what the heck you set the password to.




I'm not sure what kind of take this is. If you've lost a child, you don't need a button on your Netflix screen to remind you of the tragedy you've been through. No bereaved parent is going through life ignoring their child's passing only for a Netflix button to be the straw that breaks the camel's back.


The problem isn't that the Netflix button will make them break down into tears. The problem is that the daily confrontation just brings the mood down.

They're just sitting down for a relaxing movie or series and the first thing that comes up is the question: "You don't have kids right?"


Frankly, Netflix cannot be expected to account for such a trigger


Why not?

They have an algorithm which can account for every micro-taste on the planet. What's the point of having computers if they can't properly account for the real world?


Because, for one thing, the purpose of Netflix is to display movies and TV shows. Almost every movie or TV show ever made has some children in it somewhere, at least in the background.

When your entire content is full of triggers for those who lost a child, what's one more trigger at the loading screen?


> Why not?

Because phenomenal experience of children exists unavoidably outside of Netflix

> They have an algorithm which can account for every micro-taste on the planet

Citation needed


They don't have to account for it as a trigger.

They just need to add an option to hide the "kids" profile, which, as is being noted all over this comment thread, would be useful for a number of reasons.


Sometimes you can be having a great day and bam, some small reminder of something you lost can send you in to tears.

Grief isn't linear.


I don't understand this comment - ofc it is. This is one valid reason out of maybe a million to allow the user to choose once and remember the choice.


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I’d suggest that a degree of empathy is a useful life skill.


Very poor take.

Nobody said people should never be reminded of the existence of children, so not sure who you're arguing with.


Well that's literally what he said, that the existence of children in a list of accounts is a reminder, and thus it is bad to be reminded that children exist at all


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Wow


Well, have you lost a child?

Or have your parents?

Is this what you said to your spouse or parents when your child or sibling died?

>"you are asserting your own neuroses too much on the world and you should get it fixed and take responsibility for it I don't have patience for such childish reactions from supposed adults" -bowsamic


There’s so much projection here that basically none of this has anything to do with me, so I may as well not reply. Have fun with your Musk derangement syndrome, which btw you incorrectly identified me with




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