[mohi13]

I get disgusted by thinking why does Netflix want people to not sleep. Why auto-play in 5 sec? Isn't this morally wrong, like dangling cocaine in front of a drug addict.

I agree that people have free will but designing products so that people waste days just watching TV is very very sad IMHO.

[mschuster91]

> I get disgusted by thinking why does Netflix want people to not sleep. Why auto-play in 5 sec?

It's like linear TV. No one complains about the "non-stop" aspect there.

[lloeki]

Well I do, that's part of why I stopped watching broadcasts altogether.

The autoplay-next-thing can be disabled in the settings though, although it'll still auto-play a trailer after 15s if you complete a movie or whole series, which I loathe since it's a real mood killer after movies (I very much enjoy chilling or discussing while credits roll).

[mschuster91]

> that's part of why I stopped watching broadcasts altogether.

For me it was not because of linear programming, but because the ads became ever more obnoxious and interrupting - first it was simple ad blocks. 5min, nice, take a pee. Then the stations increased the loudness of ad spots, well fuck your ears if you decided to not take a pee. Then stations started putting layers of ads above the content and the last fad before I decided to tv-exit was that stations PiP-ed the content right in the middle of action scenes or whatnot - at 25% of screen estate, and the rest 75% was ads. Also, quality of content that was not US cinema radically decreased - Germans who know the Galileo of pre-2000 know what I mean... it's all about the TV form of clickbait, aka "eyeball-baiting", now.

[davinic]

I imagine the auto-play feature, as well as the "skip intro" features save Netflix millions of dollars in bandwidth fees.