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You know I read articles like that all the time but the user experience of all these app gets worse. The time to first video frame on Netflix is not great to say the least. The rich metadata seems also only to be used internally...

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My pet peeve with Netflix is that it occasionally forgets where I last paused my video. I don't often watch Netflix, so when I do, it's annoying that I can't resume from where I left off

This is Disney+ but nearly every time. Moved from the living room to bedroom and had to seek to get back to where we were just last night

I kinda wonder if it's a tracking endpoint my Pihole and/or Firefox privacy blockers are messing with.

This is Paramount+ as well pretty much every time, and, and!

After every ad break, the video rewinds to the start of the block before the ad break. So I have to fast forward to the ad break marker.

And people wonder why we pirate :-)

I bet it saves them some server $. Probably keep more data client-side and batching to server.

I've found actively pausing a video before exiting seems to improve the accuracy of the resume point.

I'm presuming this is because it fires a beacon on pause, but only every X (10?, 30?) seconds on playback.

Not had many issues with it completely forgetting where I am though (it does sometimes get confused as to which episode I watched last though).

I watch Netflix regularly and never had this issue. I wonder if it is your client? I use an Nvidia Shield(Android TV).

Possibly. I use my iPad for netflix.

It might not be, but who are we comparing them to? Secondly who out there is doing this scale as "cheaply"

Disney is already finding out that a streaming platform isn't cheap to run and hard to do efficiently.

There you go - 100% right you are.

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