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Yes, agree on the anxiety. My girlfriend makes fun of me because I'll be browsing and while talking to her I habitually move the focus left-right-left-right ju

Yes, agree on the anxiety. My girlfriend makes fun of me because I'll be browsing and while talking to her I habitually move the focus left-right-left-right just to prevent the annoying video from playing. She hates it too. Does anyone like this feature?

dahfizz 7y ago
I'll give my dissenting opinion: I do like the feature. If I'm actively looking for something to watch, I like the fact that I can quickly see a preview. They normally don't start playing until I've finished reading the excerpt anyway, so it's not some massive annoyance. By the time the preview starts to play, there is a high probability that I want to see it. And if not, I just continue scrolling. It is the tiniest of inconvenience for an overall improvement to the experience of finding something to watch. I suspect there is a high correlation between people that hate autoplay and people that hate the open office. Some people find tiny little distractions absolutely unbearable, but I don't. If I am actively looking for something to watch on TV, why would I be so bothered that a video starts playing on my TV? I don't really understand the use case of someone that wants to leave the Netflix home page up just hovering over a title.
- kace91 7y ago
  It's because some people don't look titles one at a time. If I have in front of me a list of 30 movies, the fact that I have the cursor over one doesn't mean I'm considering that one. I might be thinking about the name of the movie that my coworker mentioned yesterday, deciding whether I want a comedy or an action flick, or discussing with my girlfriend what to see; or simply reading diagonally the list of 30 movies, which for most of them I'll probably know something about without reading a description. Making me force my attention where my cursor is forces me to consider them one by one instead, and not pause to ponder. Liking to see a preview is fine - and there could be a button for that, so that I could tell the app to show it. But the way it is (was) I don't have the control, it's the UI who decides where my attention should be, and that's wrong. The best comparison I can make it's an overeager shop attendant asking "can I help you?" When you're looking at a product - except in this case it doesn't matter how many times you tell them you're just looking, they come back 8 seconds later to ask again.
  - dahfizz 7y ago
    It sounds like you are watching on a computer? I watch on my Roku tv, where there is only a few titles on screen and it makes sense to scroll threw them one by one. Maybe that's the difference?
    - vehementi 7y ago
      I can see a lot of titles on my TV on netflix
    - kace91 7y ago
      Nope, smart tv (using the playstation app).

dahfizz 7y ago

I'll give my dissenting opinion: I do like the feature. If I'm actively looking for something to watch, I like the fact that I can quickly see a preview. They normally don't start playing until I've finished reading the excerpt anyway, so it's not some massive annoyance. By the time the preview starts to play, there is a high probability that I want to see it. And if not, I just continue scrolling. It is the tiniest of inconvenience for an overall improvement to the experience of finding something to watch. I suspect there is a high correlation between people that hate autoplay and people that hate the open office. Some people find tiny little distractions absolutely unbearable, but I don't. If I am actively looking for something to watch on TV, why would I be so bothered that a video starts playing on my TV? I don't really understand the use case of someone that wants to leave the Netflix home page up just hovering over a title.

kace91 7y ago
It's because some people don't look titles one at a time. If I have in front of me a list of 30 movies, the fact that I have the cursor over one doesn't mean I'm considering that one. I might be thinking about the name of the movie that my coworker mentioned yesterday, deciding whether I want a comedy or an action flick, or discussing with my girlfriend what to see; or simply reading diagonally the list of 30 movies, which for most of them I'll probably know something about without reading a description. Making me force my attention where my cursor is forces me to consider them one by one instead, and not pause to ponder. Liking to see a preview is fine - and there could be a button for that, so that I could tell the app to show it. But the way it is (was) I don't have the control, it's the UI who decides where my attention should be, and that's wrong. The best comparison I can make it's an overeager shop attendant asking "can I help you?" When you're looking at a product - except in this case it doesn't matter how many times you tell them you're just looking, they come back 8 seconds later to ask again.
- dahfizz 7y ago
  It sounds like you are watching on a computer? I watch on my Roku tv, where there is only a few titles on screen and it makes sense to scroll threw them one by one. Maybe that's the difference?
  - vehementi 7y ago
    I can see a lot of titles on my TV on netflix
  - kace91 7y ago
    Nope, smart tv (using the playstation app).