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Re:Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO by avar on Sunday January 20, 2019 @04:10AM (#18952077)
If the cost is so tiny it doesn't matter, why does Netflix have that annoying "Are You Still Watching '<showname>'?" pop-up that's shown after a few episode have auto-played? It's annoying when binging shows, and I always assumed it was a money-saving measure.
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Re:Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO by stouset on Sunday January 20, 2019 @04:12AM (#18952083)
It's in case you've fallen asleep, so you don't suddenly wake up to find you've "watched" three seasons of whatever show you were on. This is only displayed if there's been no input on the remote for some number of hours.
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Re:Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO by smallbigfish on Sunday January 20, 2019 @05:14AM (#18952299)
I still fall asleep and it will go on for 3-4 episodes. It solves nothing other than to annoy me from time to time.
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Re:Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO by Retric on Sunday January 20, 2019 @05:40AM (#18952374)
It’s still much easier to figure out which episode you last watched.
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Re:Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO by mcv on Monday January 21, 2019 @01:53AM (#18958244)
I think it does this after 3 episodes of no input. It's a compromise; they don't want to do this after every episode, but they also don't want you to wake up having watched every season of the show.

It would be nice if it was configurable, though. In fact, it might well configurable; I've never really checked, because the current setting is fine by me.

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Re:Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO by jemfinch on Sunday January 20, 2019 @04:13AM (#18952088)
They have it so their watchtime metric is accurate, obviously.
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Re:Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO by markdown on Sunday January 20, 2019 @04:57AM (#18952240)
Because in most parts of the world, data is still expensive. It's to save money for the consumer, not for Netflix.
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Re:Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO by coke12 on Sunday January 20, 2019 @04:53AM (#18952227)
There might be data limits/throttling on the consumer's side.
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Re:Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO by sbr464 on Sunday January 20, 2019 @05:18AM (#18952309)
I find that pops up less these days like it used to.
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Re:Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO by adamtulinius on Sunday January 20, 2019 @06:04AM (#18952457)
The actual answer is that it is to avoid getting categorised as flow TV.
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Re:Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO by pbhjpbhj on Sunday January 20, 2019 @07:00AM (#18952643)
Can you explain? And when you say "actual answer", what backing do you have?
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