Comments on: Netflix Closes Silo (again) – Forces Jinni To Disable Ratings Feature

By: John

John — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:50:09 +0000

Davis,
I’m in the same boat. Check out http://www.savemyratings.com , it allowed me to sync my ratings between Netflix and Amazon. You can also download a csv for backup.

Cheers,

John

By: jr

jr — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:24:08 +0000

I’m confused. You don’t mind exposing your credit card information to a third party site? You’re quite positive that Jinni employs strong enough security that there’s no way this information could be compromised without your knowledge or ability to control?

There’s a really good reason that you don’t give out your credentials to a third party site. Jinni is invoking probably one of the worst possible anti-patterns here. If they offered financial tracking, would you happily provide them the credentials to your bank account?

As Netflix noted, the reason that they don’t publish this information currently is because of concerns with violating existing ToS, and making sure that there’s no chance that someone might get your rating info without you agreeing to share it.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:50:11 +0000

I just imported my ratings to Jinni.

By: Dano

Dano — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:22:39 +0000

Netflix’ respond is so vague, it is an obvious attempt to satisfy the dissatisfied users, while keeping their no-sharing policy. I’m with you, Davis.