Step by Step For Movie Privacy

Here's (yet another) Step by Step: (Updated: 3/9/09)

(Thank you Knaldskalle for providing the updated steps and the picture.)

This is for your Q, Rated & Instant Watched titles.

Start by going to the Netflix site and log in as a member.

1. Click on "Browse DVDs" Tab

2. Click on "Friends" Tab

3. Click 'Movie Privacy' from the drop-down menu

4. Start clicking "Private" for all the titles you wish to be.

NO NEED TO CREATE A SECOND Q.

Also, if you want to hide a specific movie you have rated, you can add it to your queue and hide it with the above method, then remove it from the queue.

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Permalink Reply by Baff on March 13, 2008 at 12:24am: Also, if you want to hide a specific movie you have rated, you can add it to your queue and hide it with the above method, then remove it from the queue.

Also added a link from the FAQ.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by wowwee123 on March 13, 2008 at 12:39am: You're going to need to have categories, and sub-categories for you FAQs soon.

Why need to add to Q, if already watched it? Simply rate the movie (as long as it is , and it will show up in the list. Then go to the list to mark it private.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Baff on March 13, 2008 at 12:46am: No, it only shows the movies you have rented or are in your queue. It doesn't show the movies you have watched outside of Netflix.

Don't know what categories I will sort them into yet, but yeah.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by wowwee123 on March 13, 2008 at 1:01am: I see, ok. I added it to the main thread your info earlier.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by photo heathen on March 13, 2008 at 12:27am: I've never really understood this feature. Can someone explain to me why you'd feel obligated to do this?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Baff on March 13, 2008 at 12:35am: If you don't understand, I'm not sure it can be explained to you.

Some people feel that some things are private, and other things are public. Say you are Netflix friends with a lot of people that you work with, but you don't want them to know that you watch Teletubbies (and you don't have kids). I can think of 1000s of similar situations.

Considering how common ridicule and black mail are, people's desire for privacy should really come as no surprise.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by photo heathen on March 13, 2008 at 6:03am: Yeah, I get what you're saying, but everyone watches embarrassing movies. I mean hell, look at what Titanic did at the box office!

If Netflix rented porn I could probably understand the value of the feature a bit more. But just to hide a few movies that most workplace or otherwise loosely related "friends" probably won't notice in the first place...hmm, seems like one of those features very few people would ever actually use.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by RJP on April 4, 2008 at 10:25am: I agree with photo heathen - seems to me if you want to be anonymous, then be anonymous. Don't try to hide things like your queues, reviews, whatever. In my case, nobody using the Netflix site knows who I am - not co-workers, friends, or even family members. And this Netflix Community is the only social site I've ever been involved with.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by wowwee123 on April 6, 2008 at 2:51pm: If something makes one uncomfortable, and can do something to not be, well, that's that persons choice.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by RJP on April 7, 2008 at 7:18am: One second thought - wowwee is right - it's a personal choice to make your rentals private if you're in a situation that makes you uncomfortable. I keep an alphabetical list of every DVD I've rented from either Netflix or Blockbuster since Year 2000, and I can see how certain conservative friends I see every day might get the wrong idea of they saw this list.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by JDoors on March 8, 2009 at 8:29pm: Look at the movies listed under "Gay and Lesbian" and see if you can understand why SOME people might feel the need to keep some of their movie choices private. Or what if you're a MANLY man and you don't want your beer swilling buddies to know you LOVE musicals and tear-jerkers?

Like Baff said, there must be a thousand possible reasons for this feature.

Not everyone is as shameless as you are! :D; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by wowwee123 on March 8, 2009 at 10:17pm: Not everyone is as shameless as you are! :D

Or uses the friends feature.; ▶ Reply to This