A history of Netflix describing how it came to be full of content “designed to be played but not watched”. I've never understood why a subscription-based service feels so similar to ad-based platforms like YouTube, seemingly optimized to make you keep scrolling. I mean I've paid already, so surely it would be best for profit if I use the service as little as possible while still renewing (saving bandwidth and compute costs) instead of annoying me with a 10 second autoplay timer that can't be turned off. I still don't quite get it. But at least partially, now.