So there's still no option to turn off the thing that after the last episode of a show (or even a movie), it auto plays a trailer from some random show, and if you managed to cancel that trailer and start to watch the credit, it will come back again later?
Turning Off Autoplaying Previews
201–210 of 243 posts
Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews
#202Didn't ever expect to see this capability. A bit unrelated, but: anyone remember in the "early" days when Netflix held competitions to develop the most accurate recommendation and ratings engines? Giving out million dollar prizes? And held possibly state-of-the-art tech for this? And then one day completely gutted the star rating system, replacing it with a much-despised "thumbs up/down" system, giving up their "so g…
Netflix now has much better sources of information than the self-reported star ratings. Self-reported ratings fail in a lot of ways. Users can upvote what they think they're supposed to upvote. They'll downvote something, then go watch the sequel, because "It's terrible but I love it". And since they're seeking out stuff that they suspect they're going to like, they either compress all of the ratings into the top tie…
So why did their recommendations get so much worse?
Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews
#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd prefer up/sideways/down. Sometimes I watch things that are brainless, they aren't thumbs up worthy but they are not totally thumbs down either. But if this was hiring a sideways is always down in my book, so I could see why it's not totally useful.
"Sideways" exists: don't rate it.
Null !== 0
Not rating does not mean the same thing as rating something as average.
Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews
#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is why the Uber/Lyft rating system is effectively useless. Five stars is basically "was not unsafe", and four and below indicate significant safety, cleanliness, rudeness, or other problems. If each star rating had a textual description of what it meant, and drivers didn't have to maintain something like a 4.3 (or whatever it is) in order to stay on the platform, the ratings would actually mean something.
Then you have my girlfriend who rates everything a 3/5 because it's average or to be expected. 4/5 for particularly good service. And nobody gets a 5/5. I think star systems are a waste of time.
This is why I never fill out my car dealership's service department surveys. I'm not going to give a normal oil change visit 10/10 in every category because that's simply bullshit. Giving anything less gets my service advisor punished for not delivering excellent service.
I'm honest with him and tell him exactly why I won't be filling it out. If I do ever fill one out, he'll know exactly why before I send it in.
Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews
#205Thanks Netflix! Next feature request: AUTO-SKIP-ALL-INTROS-AND-RECAPS-WHILE-BINGING
I wrote a greasemonkey/tampermonkey script to do this.
And to disable auto-play of next episodes (now happily obsolete, perhaps) and "promoted post-play preview content".
There is no UI so you'd have to toggle the script on/off if you wanted to resume watching intros and recaps.
https://github.com/bbbbbr/netflix-disable-auto-play-and-more
Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews
#206I was excited then for a second but I don’t think this means what I think it does. Does this mean it’s possible to disable the auto play on trailers for something unrelated when you finish a series? I literally finished Bojack Horseman after years of watching 30 minutes ago. End it’s left hanging there in a poignant moment but I have to jump up to stop the trailer for god knows what, and the a minute later I have to…
I actually hate that "feature" even more than autoplay. It's completely disrespectful to both the viewer and to the content that you're watching. This option is to turn off autoplay when browsing. It would be great if it also disabled the auto play on trailers at the end of a show.
That bugged me enough the first time it happened that I immediately stopped what I was doing and worked on disabling it.
If you use greasemonkey/tampermonkey then the script below will disable the post-episode playback (along with a couple other UI changes)
https://github.com/bbbbbr/netflix-disable-auto-play-and-more
Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews
#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
Netflix now has much better sources of information than the self-reported star ratings. Self-reported ratings fail in a lot of ways. Users can upvote what they think they're supposed to upvote. They'll downvote something, then go watch the sequel, because "It's terrible but I love it". And since they're seeking out stuff that they suspect they're going to like, they either compress all of the ratings into the top tie…
All current user ratings systems for movies are terrible because new users can bury a great movie. There are classic, important, society-changing movies from the previous century that were highly praised by contemporary critics and won scads of awards. But then people today watch them with zero context or understanding of what was happening or what the world was like and give them bad ratings because they can only co…
It's not supposed to be a measure of "greatness". It's there to predict how people will feel about the movie. If Netflix subscribers don't have the context to understand/appreciate the movie, then Netflix shouldn't recommend it to them.
That's the opposite of "worthless".
Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews
#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
They obviously determined that thumbs up/down either generated better training data or more training data. They wouldn't intentionally make their recommendations worse just for the sake of it.
> They wouldn't intentionally make their recommendations worse just for the sake of it. Why not? Every big platform that I know of has eventually done this with either 1p or “sponsored” content (Google, Amazon, Apple, etc.). In this case their incentive would be to push their own content above 3p content. What matters to them is their revenue, not maximizing the accuracy of their recommendations model.
That still depends on a good recommendation system, it's just an extra finger on the balance.
Giving a boost to first party content is very different from making it "just worse".
Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews
#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't really like star systems because I spend way too much time deciding if something is 3 or 4 stars, or 4 or 5 stars. I much prefer textual descriptions; for example "Terrible", "Don't like", "Okay", "Like", "Favourite", which has the same options as a 5-star rating system, but choosing between 3/4 and 4/5 is much easier IMHO. I don't really know of any system that uses this, except this one music player I wrote…
Not only that, but I don't trust myself to remember how I calibrated myself to the rating system in the past. If I'm more stingy with the 5-star ratings now than I was 2 years ago, then I'm going to skew things in a way that the system probably can't understand. In other words, it not only expects me to define my own scale, it also expects me to stay consistent with it over time. I don't think that's realistic. I hon…
Relative individual consistency is not a necessary component in these systems, except perhaps in the most simplistic. It’s not exactly difficult to introduce temporal normalization / regularization into these models.
I don’t have any specific knowledge of Netflix per se, but I suspect the granularity of a 5 point rating system just proved to be superfluous. Even a +1 / -1 rating is probably sufficiently proxied by a simple measure of completion percentage (appropriately normalized).
Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews
#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are certainly right about Netflix's catalog decreasing, but that doesn't explain why Netflix's recommendations have been downgraded over time. I am reminded of the show Tuca & Bertie. It was a new Netflix original from the same people who created BoJack Horseman. You would think it would be obvious to surface the new show to anyone who watched the old show. Except that never happened. The show's creator even comm…
What I hate about Netflix’s recommendations is how if you watch any standup comedy special, Netflix decides that you’re a huge, undiscerning standup fan and recommends all standup comedy to you, forever.
Not sure of that. I have never watched standup and Netflix still recommends lots of standup comedy