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Some of us would like some silence when a movie or an episode finishes. Currently, the auto playing of trailers is bad enough as it is.

hericium 5y ago
You can turn it off somewhere in profile settings on netflix.com
- burntwater 5y ago
  I've found it to be very inconsistent. I've found that typically episodes will play credits and not auto-forward to the next episode. Movies will sometimes skip credits and move to trailers, sometimes not. I feel like usually they move to trailers. And movies is when I MOST want to watch credits and reflect on the movie, so Netflix is literally doing the opposite of what I want.
- wodenokoto 5y ago
  Not really. You can turn off auto-skipping to next episode, but depending on the platform you are watching on, it might still autopay trailers after a movie has finished.
onion2k 5y ago
Of course, but Netflix itself isn't really designed for that use case. The job of Netflix is to make content you want to watch, not to silence itself so you get some peace. In your situation I'd use the sleep timer setting on the TV itself to automatically turn it off after a given time. It shouldn't be too hard to align it to match the end of the show.
- wodenokoto 5y ago
  It is totally way too hard to align those things. Most sleep timers works in hours, maybe half hour increment. Looking up the length of a show, estimating when Netflix will interrupt end-credits, is completely unreasonable workaround.
- fivre 5y ago
  lolwut the job of Netflix is to provide a product its customers want. i don't think OP is in a tiny minority of people who want an option to disable autoplay; it's a desire i've heard expressed quite often. hell, fucking YouTube, a service that exists to play ads and that plays more as you watch more videos, has an option to disable autoplay Netflix gets away without doing this because it doesn't immediately lose them customers, and implementing it wouldn't really gain them any, but i am always quite at people who declare that it's therefore good. i need to figure out some tech service that's growth positive as a function to sacrificing its users' children to Moloch, just to watch the HN crowd cry "well, it's not the service's job to /not/ sacrifice your children to Moloch, and you can put them in an anti-Moloch safe room, so I personally don't see why they shouldn't keep sacrificing to Moloch the children of those that don't bother to go the extra mile to avoid it"

hericium 5y ago

You can turn it off somewhere in profile settings on netflix.com

burntwater 5y ago
I've found it to be very inconsistent. I've found that typically episodes will play credits and not auto-forward to the next episode. Movies will sometimes skip credits and move to trailers, sometimes not. I feel like usually they move to trailers. And movies is when I MOST want to watch credits and reflect on the movie, so Netflix is literally doing the opposite of what I want.
wodenokoto 5y ago
Not really. You can turn off auto-skipping to next episode, but depending on the platform you are watching on, it might still autopay trailers after a movie has finished.

onion2k 5y ago

Of course, but Netflix itself isn't really designed for that use case. The job of Netflix is to make content you want to watch, not to silence itself so you get some peace. In your situation I'd use the sleep timer setting on the TV itself to automatically turn it off after a given time. It shouldn't be too hard to align it to match the end of the show.

wodenokoto 5y ago
It is totally way too hard to align those things. Most sleep timers works in hours, maybe half hour increment. Looking up the length of a show, estimating when Netflix will interrupt end-credits, is completely unreasonable workaround.
fivre 5y ago
lolwut the job of Netflix is to provide a product its customers want. i don't think OP is in a tiny minority of people who want an option to disable autoplay; it's a desire i've heard expressed quite often. hell, fucking YouTube, a service that exists to play ads and that plays more as you watch more videos, has an option to disable autoplay Netflix gets away without doing this because it doesn't immediately lose them customers, and implementing it wouldn't really gain them any, but i am always quite at people who declare that it's therefore good. i need to figure out some tech service that's growth positive as a function to sacrificing its users' children to Moloch, just to watch the HN crowd cry "well, it's not the service's job to /not/ sacrifice your children to Moloch, and you can put them in an anti-Moloch safe room, so I personally don't see why they shouldn't keep sacrificing to Moloch the children of those that don't bother to go the extra mile to avoid it"