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Re:Netflix Should Sell Ads by onion2k on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @01:57AM (#30915731)
Of course, but Netflix itself isn't really designed for that use case. The job of Netflix is to make content you want to watch, not to silence itself so you get some peace.

In your situation I'd use the sleep timer setting on the TV itself to automatically turn it off after a given time. It shouldn't be too hard to align it to match the end of the show.

Re:Netflix Should Sell Ads by fivre on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @02:43AM (#30915994)
lolwut

the job of Netflix is to provide a product its customers want. i don't think OP is in a tiny minority of people who want an option to disable autoplay; it's a desire i've heard expressed quite often. hell, fucking YouTube, a service that exists to play ads and that plays more as you watch more videos, has an option to disable autoplay

Netflix gets away without doing this because it doesn't immediately lose them customers, and implementing it wouldn't really gain them any, but i am always quite at people who declare that it's therefore good. i need to figure out some tech service that's growth positive as a function to sacrificing its users' children to Moloch, just to watch the HN crowd cry "well, it's not the service's job to /not/ sacrifice your children to Moloch, and you can put them in an anti-Moloch safe room, so I personally don't see why they shouldn't keep sacrificing to Moloch the children of those that don't bother to go the extra mile to avoid it"

Re:Netflix Should Sell Ads by wodenokoto on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @02:26AM (#30915882)
It is totally way too hard to align those things.

Most sleep timers works in hours, maybe half hour increment. Looking up the length of a show, estimating when Netflix will interrupt end-credits, is completely unreasonable workaround.