Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your TV show

Post by cwt » Wed, Dec 16, 2015, 8:25 PM UTC

Post by JeffreyKaine » Wed, Dec 16, 2015, 8:27 PM UTC

Post by tylercubell » Wed, Dec 16, 2015, 8:34 PM UTC

pingou wrote: post #13

It's cute, but is it a joke or something more serious ? I don't see any use for it, except perhaps saving bandwidth. Surely it must takes some time for the device to find out that you're actually sleeping, then you anyway have to rewind back to the point you stopped watching, so I don't think it makes a big difference to go 10 minutes or 1 hour back.

Post by hotgoldminer » Wed, Dec 16, 2015, 8:37 PM UTC

pingou wrote: post #13

It's cute, but is it a joke or something more serious ? I don't see any use for it, except perhaps saving bandwidth. Surely it must takes some time for the device to find out that you're actually sleeping, then you anyway have to rewind back to the point you stopped watching, so I don't think it makes a big difference to go 10 minutes or 1 hour back.

Post by josh64 » Wed, Dec 16, 2015, 8:38 PM UTC

rogerbinns wrote: post #21

Someone1234 wrote: post #15

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What interests me is how inconsistent it is. For example, I can go a whole afternoon some days without it auto-pausing, while others as you said, you can go two episodes and it will pause on you. I suspect Netflix tracks window focus via JavaScript at minimal, and maybe other metrics too to try and guesstimate user idle-ness. Interestingly when I am in a full screen game (and Netflix on another screen) it "never" pau…

The auto-pausing also happens if you are using Chromecast, so they must have more than one approach.