The New York Times has a fun feature that examines Netflix rental patterns , neighborhood by neighborhood, in a dozen cities. As you can imagine, the top 10 lists of most in-city Seattle neighborhoods varies little. Central District News notes the same phenomenon . Capitol Hill’s top 10 list is nearly identical to West Seattle’s.
However, according to the New York Times, one of the greatest disparities by neighborhood was Mad Men: Season 1’s placement in the rental queue list. This proved true in Seattle. Do Capitol Hill and the Central District attract more creative types, and is this the reason Mad Men is far more popular here than say in ‘West Seattle?
Here is a bet – Netflix SELLS the list of what YOU rent to other mass sellers … millions of coded names, neat and tidy, for millions.
Privacy is a thing of the not too distant past.
Junk mail lists are obsolete and were just addresses.
This isn’t anything new. Businesses always do this, but if there’s no name attached to the rentals then how bad can it be?