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by icytrumpet 1529 days ago
I'm about to cancel for two reasons.

1. The auto-play preview feature is incredibly annoying and there is no way to disable it. If I want to watch a preview, I'll click the damn button. Let me read a description in peace.

2. The overt propaganda makes watching any new content all but impossible for me. It seems that this is not unique to Netflix, but they are the worst in my opinion.

3 comments

Agreed on both. There are autoplay settings on previews here:

How to turn autoplay previews on or off https://help.netflix.com/en/node/2102

Yes, every service is a Clockwork Orange reeducation campaign any more. It gets old.

one of the reasons I can't stand netflix is their ctr-maximizing screenshots, they are awful.

if they had an option to browse movies with high def posters instead it would be beautiful.

Cancelled mine, but I remember you can disable the previews. Quite annoying 'feature'.
It must be buried in the Fire Stick UI because I can't seem to find it anywhere. I'll have to check again.
I believe the option only exists in the web settings page. It turns it off for all devices though.