If you are a fan of movies and TV series, you will surely remember the issue of Netflix’s hidden codes. Put simply, over the years the community has unearthed several “hidden categories” relating to the Reed Hastings platform, understanding how to access them. Well, now there is a “novelty”.
We don’t actually know whether or not this is a new method used by the platform to internally manage the content in its extensive catalog, but the recent launch of Netflix’s new Short-Ass Movies category has raised a possibility that many may not. know about some “hidden sections” that users usually reach by adding a numeric code at the end of a specific URL.
More precisely, the arrival of the Short-Ass Movies category has highlighted the possibility of accessing certain sections through “reduced” URLs. More precisely, as regards the new category, the URL is netflix.com/shortassmovies. As you can see by connecting to the latter, Netflix seems to have implemented “internally” a sort of URL shortener, which then directs to the categories linked to the user’s country.
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Carrying out some tests on this, we noticed that Netflix has started to propose this method for other categories as well. To be clear, netflix.com/anime works correctly, allowing users to quickly access the appropriate section. For those who do not know, remember that the browser is “hidden”, as from the “Genres” button of the “TV Series” and “Film” pages you can only access the “Anime Series” and “Anime Movies” sections, different from the more generic “Anime”. Among other things, not even searching for “Anime” on the Netflix web portal is not able to access the page involved.
In short, you understand that it can be an interesting possibility to reach the “hidden sections” of Netflix, but it must be said that the shortener for the moment is very limited, as several categories do not seem to be accessible in this way. However, we may have found the first signs of a new method used internally by the platform to “list” content, which may be more convenient than the classic “secret codes” unearthed by the community over the years. In short, it was interesting to investigate the question, even if for the moment you may want to continue using the “old method”.