# Netflix once gave me lists, now I get screens of thumbnails (?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 25, 2015, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-once-gave-me-lists-now-i-get-screens-of-thumbnails/720757 "2015-05-25T00:12:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-once-gave-me-lists-now-i-get-screens-of-thumbnails/720757/1 "2015-05-25T00:12:05Z")
Netflix once gave me lists, now I get screens of ‘‘thumbnails (?)’’. Did I inadvertently turn list off? Does someone have a add-on that converts thumbnails to lists? Wouldn’t [Movies Featuring a Strong Female Lead](http://www.netflix.com/WiAltGenre?agid=23335)be friendlier as a list? ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-once-gave-me-lists-now-i-get-screens-of-thumbnails/720757/2 "2015-05-25T00:33:45Z")
they changed things up recently call them if you want an explanation i’m not really sure why they changed ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-once-gave-me-lists-now-i-get-screens-of-thumbnails/720757/3 "2015-05-25T00:36:38Z")
Can you give us a screenshot of what you mean? ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-once-gave-me-lists-now-i-get-screens-of-thumbnails/720757/4 "2015-05-25T01:15:26Z")
Quick answer: Every user interface is being designed for use by a finger-swiping tablet, not a desktop’s keyboard. I hate it sometimes too. ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-once-gave-me-lists-now-i-get-screens-of-thumbnails/720757/5 "2015-05-25T04:57:02Z")
I miss words. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-once-gave-me-lists-now-i-get-screens-of-thumbnails/720757/6 "2015-05-25T05:23:14Z")
> [@janeslogin](#): > > Netflix once gave me lists, now I get screens of ‘‘thumbnails (?)’’. Did I inadvertently turn list off? Does someone have a add-on that converts thumbnails to lists? Wouldn’t [Movies Featuring a Strong Female Lead](http://www.netflix.com/WiAltGenre?agid=23335)be friendlier as a list? I just did the exact same search, and got the results as a list rather than thumbnails. This suggests that there are indeed alternate settings; however, I was unable to find how to change them. > [@Mahaloth](#): > > Can you give us a screenshot of what you mean? Click the link. ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-once-gave-me-lists-now-i-get-screens-of-thumbnails/720757/7 "2015-05-25T05:56:59Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I just did the exact same search, and got the results as a list rather than thumbnails. This suggests that there are indeed alternate settings; however, I was unable to find how to change them. > > Click the link. when i clicked your link it was displayed as thumbnails ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-once-gave-me-lists-now-i-get-screens-of-thumbnails/720757/8 "2015-05-25T06:36:06Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I just did the exact same search, and got the results as a list rather than thumbnails. This suggests that there are indeed alternate settings; however, I was unable to find how to change them. > > Click the link. Clicking the link just opens a login page. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-once-gave-me-lists-now-i-get-screens-of-thumbnails/720757/9 "2015-05-25T14:43:19Z")
> [@Robert163](#): > > when i clicked your link it was displayed as thumbnails Why would you think it wouidn’t? I didn’t post a link, but quoted the OP’s link. > [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Clicking the link just opens a login page. Interesting. When I click it using Chrome, I get thumbnails. When I click it using Internet Explorer, I get the Netflix login page. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-once-gave-me-lists-now-i-get-screens-of-thumbnails/720757/10 "2015-05-25T15:32:10Z")
That would make sense if you have a Netflix account you normally access via Chrome and have left that logged in. The two browsers have two separate cookie stores. So Chrome remembers you’re logged in, but IE doesn’t. Or more precisely, Chrome has a cookie it can give to Netflix so Netflix can recognize who you are and that you’re logged in. IE doesn’t have the same cookie, so Netflix doesn’t recognize IE as representing your account. ---
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-once-gave-me-lists-now-i-get-screens-of-thumbnails/720757/11 "2015-05-25T15:52:33Z")
> [@](#): > > When I click it using Internet Explorer, I get the Netflix login page. But then if you log-in to Netflix on IE and click the link what do you get? _ed-someone already addressed this._ This trek has led me to some interesting discoveries. e.g. the URL for many (all?) Netflix’ genres lists have a ‘agid=’. Some dude has a list of,he says, 100000 of these alphabetized. It is online as a spreadsheet, I think, and I have not figured out how to link to it. I found it Googling ~~Movies Featuring a Strong Female Lead~~ ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-once-gave-me-lists-now-i-get-screens-of-thumbnails/720757/12 "2015-05-25T16:01:10Z")
> [@janeslogin](#): > > But then if you log-in to Netflix on IE and click the link what do you get? _ed-someone already addressed this._ I get a list, which suggests it’s some setting within my own Netflix account rather than a browser issue. My list is quite different from yours, probably because Netflix orders them based on my own Taste Preferences. ---
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-once-gave-me-lists-now-i-get-screens-of-thumbnails/720757/13 "2015-05-25T20:13:50Z")
If we were to resolve the immediate unpleasantness it night take a turn for the worse net month. Thanks everyone. [Netflix To Roll Out A New, More Immersive Web Interface Starting In June](http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/20/netflix-to-roll-out-a-new-more-immersive-web-interface-starting-in-june/#.hapv47:Bhjg) ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-once-gave-me-lists-now-i-get-screens-of-thumbnails/720757/14 "2015-05-25T20:50:23Z")
“More Immersive”…is that one of those “Freedom is Slavery” kind of things?