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That really only became possible when they decided to auto-play new episodes, which is a bad feature in general. There are quite a few shows with really nice music videos in their ending credits. Shrinking the video to the size of a postage stamp and kicking me into a new episode is a rather annoying.

They also have a terrible habit of skipping the opening credits. The credits are often funny or beautiful. Every time I watch Futurama, I need to start the show and then rewind back to the beginning to see the opening joke. It's like VHS all over again.

Opps. I'm ranting. You know, I never noticed how much the interface annoyed me until I stopped to think about it.

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Different strokes for different folks - I like watching the opening credits for the 1st episode, but not the 3rd.

exactly this

That's often true for me too. There's just certain shows for which that's not the case, and I really remember fighting against the interface.

Futurama and the Simpsons are really the main shows this applies to, as in both the opening credits have been made to be a feature of the episode.

Simpsons have of course taken it far more extreme than Futurama, by making the sofa gag into an at time extremely elaborate part of the show.

I totally will re-listen to Mad Men's jazzy intro music every time...

It's "A Beautiful Mine" by RJD2, incidentally.

Yes, this. I turned off the auto-play-next feature but there is no way to avoid the shrink-credits thing. :-/

I never noticed it skipping the opening credits though.

It definitely skips the opening credits on the shows my kids watch (Octonauts, Cat in the Hat, etc.). For better or worse, both of these also have another song in the episode near the beginning (the same song, every episode).

This is on a Roku 3, not sure if it's a different experience for other devices.

It depends on the show. I think they only ever skip opening credits right at the start of the video, but most shows tend to have a scene before them, so it rarely applies.

They also use the mechanism to skip "previously on" sections, which is probably a good idea during a marathon, since they're usually more spoiler than reminder in that situation.

A long time ago I saw someone post that support was able to turn off this feature on the account. No idea if that is true.

>Yes, this. I turned off the auto-play-next feature but there is no way to avoid the shrink-credits thing. :-/

If in Chrome, try the 'hide postplay' feature of the Flix Plus by Lifehacker extension.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/flix-plus-by-lifeh...

Auto-whatever interfaces in general need to hit an incredibly high "success" rate in terms of doing what the user wants to avoid feeling frustrating. I don't remember the study, but the number was in the high 90s, percent wise.

You can turn it off.

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