Bypass Netflix's Are You Still Watching prompts
When the streaming site Netflix suspects that you may not be watching anymore, it displays an "are you still watching" prompt that blocks playback until you confirm that you are indeed still binge watching Breaking Bad or Peaky Blinders.
Sometimes, that prompt is a godsend as it prevents that the entire season runs through while you are sound asleep in front of your computer or in bed. At other times, it can be quite the nuisance if you get the prompt while perfectly capable of watching yet another episode or ten on Netflix.
You may even have to get up to deal with the prompt depending on how you watch content on Netflix.
It is unclear why Netfix displays the prompts in first place. Some say that it is for the benefit of the company's customers, others that it helps Netflix save bandwidth by blocking playback until customers hit the continue button.
Are You Still Watching?
Some Netflix customers may not mind that Netflix displays the prompt after some time while they are using the service. Others dislike it and want to disable it or at least bypass it so that they can watch unhindered.
While Netflix does not offer any options to disable the "are you still watching" prompts in the service's settings, it is possible to bypass them using browser extensions. Works only if you use a web browser like Chrome or Firefox to watch Netflix; if you use an unsupported web browser, a smart TV, or streaming device like Fire TV, you are out of luck currently.
Netflix Pause Removal for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome handles Netflix's continue playing prompts. The extension requires permission to access data on netflix.com but no other permissions besides that; good. Just install the extension and you are good to go.
A simple application for the lazy, to not have to click the "Continue Watching" button in Netflix. It will remove the UI Permanently, so you can continue your binge session.
The browser extension removes the "are you still watching" prompt permanently from Netflix as long as you have it installed in your browser of choice.
It should be clear that the extension should only be installed by Netflix users who find the prompts annoying and a nuisance. If you find them useful sometimes, you may not want to install the extension as you'd have to disable the extension each time you want Netflix to throw the prompts at you.
Chrome especially but also Firefox is home to dozens of extensions for Netflix. Many improve Netflix in other ways: the Flix Assist extension for Chrome skips the next episode countdown for instance, others may block spoilers on Netflix.
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Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.