How to build your taste profile and turn on Taste Match
Taste Match estimates how likely you are to enjoy a specific title, based on your own viewing history and ratings rather than what's generally popular. It activates once you've rated or imported five or more titles, and gets meaningfully better around twenty.
Takes about 5 min
Steps
Rate titles you've already seen
Work through films and shows you have opinions about. This is what the profile is built from.
Or import your Netflix viewing history
Much faster than rating manually if you're a Netflix user.
Reach five titles to activate Taste Match
Below five, the extension falls back to globally popular suggestions rather than pretending to personalise.
Keep rating as you watch
Around twenty rated titles, recommendations start to feel genuinely personal.
Worth knowing
- Your taste profile is stored locally in the browser. There's no CineMan account to create or sign into.
- Taste Match is an estimate, not a promise. It's built from patterns in what you've rated, and it will be wrong sometimes.
- Because the profile is local to the browser, it doesn't follow you to another machine.
Questions
How many titles do I need to rate?
Five activates Taste Match. Quality scales from there — around twenty rated titles is where recommendations start feeling meaningfully personalised. Below five, the extension shows globally popular suggestions instead.
Is my taste profile stored on a server?
No. It's stored locally in your browser, and there's no CineMan account. That also means it doesn't sync to another computer.