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Slightly unrelated, but all these media streaming apps and services like Netflix/Prime Video/Youtube etc. are so horrible by automatically playing whatever the

Slightly unrelated, but all these media streaming apps and services like Netflix/Prime Video/Youtube etc. are so horrible by automatically playing whatever the fuck I am currently focused on, although I am just scrolling to somewhere to find my content. There is no way for users to focus "out" of the thumbnails, other than focusing on a different thumbnail, and it keeps playing the nonsense. All I would do is go back all the way to main menu or where I started

Godel_unicode 4y ago
At least on YouTube you can turn that off.
- jamiek88 4y ago
  You can?! Investigation time!
  - climb_stealth 4y ago
    Holy cow, I had no idea. This is how to do it: when on the youtube page, click on the profile button in the top right -> settings -> playback and performance on the left -> disable inline playback. /edit: It still plays videos on hover after changing it. Only now there is no player popup anymore.
- X-Cubed 4y ago
  You can turn it off on Netflix too: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/2102 https://help.netflix.com/en/node/2102
- atahanacar 4y ago
  ...only if you have an account.
- jiggawatts 4y ago
  Except that this config option is broken on the YouTube app that comes with Android TV / Google TV.
chillfox 4y ago
As someone who usually keep the mouse away from what I am looking at (I find it distracting) It's super annoying for random shit that I am not looking at to be activating.
paganel 4y ago
> Slightly unrelated, but all these media streaming apps and services like Netflix/Prime Video/Youtube e Slightly related, but does anyone know how come Netflix's search algorithm (for lack of a better word) and its general search-related UI is so bad? A specific use-case that I had a few days ago was that I wanted to watch a nice comedy movie, preferably not from the last few years. There was no easy filter on time periods, nor a filter on the country where that movie was made (I was thinking of filtering on France or Italy at some point), no way to tell Netflix "show me all the movies employing this actor" that you have in your catalogue, nothing of the sorts. In the end I think I searched for "Belmondo comedy" or something asinine like that, which, sure enough, after some horizontal scrolling (?!?!) ended up by recommending me a Tom Hanks comedy from the 1980s. I did not watch Netflix that evening. How do people find stuff on this platform?
- princevegeta89 4y ago
  It used to be accurate and much better at the time they had ratings for their content, but I think it all changed when they removed that feature since they wanted all their content to be consumed, they then would present even low relevancy results on the top during the search.

Godel_unicode 4y ago

At least on YouTube you can turn that off.

jamiek88 4y ago
You can?! Investigation time!
- climb_stealth 4y ago
  Holy cow, I had no idea. This is how to do it: when on the youtube page, click on the profile button in the top right -> settings -> playback and performance on the left -> disable inline playback. /edit: It still plays videos on hover after changing it. Only now there is no player popup anymore.
X-Cubed 4y ago
You can turn it off on Netflix too: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/2102 https://help.netflix.com/en/node/2102
atahanacar 4y ago
...only if you have an account.
jiggawatts 4y ago
Except that this config option is broken on the YouTube app that comes with Android TV / Google TV.

chillfox 4y ago

As someone who usually keep the mouse away from what I am looking at (I find it distracting) It's super annoying for random shit that I am not looking at to be activating.

paganel 4y ago

> Slightly unrelated, but all these media streaming apps and services like Netflix/Prime Video/Youtube e Slightly related, but does anyone know how come Netflix's search algorithm (for lack of a better word) and its general search-related UI is so bad? A specific use-case that I had a few days ago was that I wanted to watch a nice comedy movie, preferably not from the last few years. There was no easy filter on time periods, nor a filter on the country where that movie was made (I was thinking of filtering on France or Italy at some point), no way to tell Netflix "show me all the movies employing this actor" that you have in your catalogue, nothing of the sorts. In the end I think I searched for "Belmondo comedy" or something asinine like that, which, sure enough, after some horizontal scrolling (?!?!) ended up by recommending me a Tom Hanks comedy from the 1980s. I did not watch Netflix that evening. How do people find stuff on this platform?

princevegeta89 4y ago
It used to be accurate and much better at the time they had ratings for their content, but I think it all changed when they removed that feature since they wanted all their content to be consumed, they then would present even low relevancy results on the top during the search.