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Re:Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your... by k1t on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @08:45PM (#10748927)
You don't say which phone, but this behavior sounds like Samsung Smart Pause[0]. It's possible that it was not related to the app/ad vendor.

[0] http://www.samsung.com/uk/support/skp/faq/1053479

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Re:Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your... by techdragon on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @10:03PM (#10749211)
I don't care who causes a thing like that. If it's the app I'll get rid of it, if it was the phone, id return it. That is way too intrusive.
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Re:Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your... by lagadu on Thursday December 17, 2015 @04:35AM (#10750428)
Smart pause is a feature you have to explicitly enable. Just like smart-something that prevents your phone from auto-locking after a certain period of time if it sees you're still looking at it.
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Re:Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your... by PhasmaFelis on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @11:18PM (#10749507)
Good point, but any app that runs video ads before starting up is not worth keeping in any case. For that matter, any app that forces you to watch video ads, period.
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Re:Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your... by ChuckMcM on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @10:31PM (#10749315)
It was on my Moto-x (2015).
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