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I think their worst decision of late is to include auto-playing "trailers" (with sound!) when you pause for more than a second on a title. Between that and the lack of a decent "browse by category" interface you mentioned, I rarely bother using the TV UI to discover content. Googling "what's good on netflix" works much better for me.

At least you can still disable the auto-play next episode "feature".

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God I hate the automatic playing of trailers. I usually mute my receiver so that I can peacefully browse and read through descriptions only to find out that there’s nothing on Netflix I actually want to watch.

> auto-playing "trailers" (with sound!)

I've read about this a few times. If you disable it once, does it get disabled permanently? Because Netflix (unlike the Amazon Prime Video ads) never plays trailers with sound for me.

> auto-play next episode "feature"

I'd certainly call it a feature. I'd hate having to manually click every time I want to see a new episode.

My TV's Netflix app doesn't have an option to disable the auto-playing trailers, or even just their sound (short of muting the TV). It's quite annoying.

ah, okay, that makes sense. Though to be fair, that sounds like a shitty app (one of many reasons I have a dumb TV).

Are you able to disable auto-playing trailers, or are you just using the web interface or a smartphone/tablet that don't have this feature in the first place?

I have a recent AppleTV, which doesn't have any way to disable auto-playing trailers. Same for my previous STB (Roku). This is a somewhat new feature, so some older STBs and Smart TVs don't have it, but that's just because they can't be updated to the latest version of the Netflix app.

You can disable auto-play next episode across all interfaces and devices in the settings on netflix.com. I just wish there was an equivalent switch for trailers.

Never seen a function to disable trailers completely (my dumb tv is a large, wall-mounted 3rd computer monitor, so I'm using the web interface), but at least they don't play sound which would probably make me cancel my Netflix subscription.

I feel like that "feature" saved me from Bird Box, at least; I turned on Netflix, turned my back on the screen to focus on preparing food, and found out there's a level of painfully bad acting that comes across through sound alone.

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