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I never let episodes in a series autoplay on netflix, but the other night I did and it paused a few minutes in to make me click to continue. I assumed this was
by waterlesscloud 13y ago
I never let episodes in a series autoplay on netflix, but the other night I did and it paused a few minutes in to make me click to continue.
I assumed this was to protect their bandwidth. They don't want users streaming a whole series while they sleep (or aren't in the room for that matter).
I did wonder if the interruption was based on time of day, since it was late at night.
- bcrescimanno 13y agoNo, it's contractual. Netflix cannot act as a "broadcast" service due to the way they license content. It means that there is a limit to how many pieces of content they can play without any user interaction (a user-interaction will classify the play as "on-demand" as opposed to "broadcast"). (Yes, I'm a former employee who worked on the auto-play feature).
- weaksauce 13y agoPlease tell me there is a way to stop it... I fall asleep and wake up with no idea where I fell asleep watching....
- m_ram 13y agohttps://www.netflix.com/YourAccount https://www.netflix.com/YourAccount "Playback settings" > uncheck "Play next episode automatically"
- Pewpewarrows 13y agoDoes a setting like this also work for the iPad app? That's typically what I watch Netflix on while falling asleep.
- weaksauce 13y agoNot sure if you are going to get this but yeah it works for all forms of netflix.
- Pewpewarrows 13y agoOh awesome, thanks!
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