Roku,
The solution is simple and obvious... you just add another list to your user accounts... one would be a running "tab" of movies we watched that you can use for advertizing, and the other can be one we can clear at will. So if we watch movies A though F then A though F are added to both lists... but if we clear the list or remove a few from the duplicate, and then watch movies G though M... the first list would now be A though M, and the 2nd list would maybe be A, B, C, E & G through M (assuming we removed D and F by choice)
You still use the master list to make your money and our feed uses the edited list for suggestions and continue watching... This would also INCREASE your user viewing for people who fall asleep during a show and want to have your system NOT remember the 3 episodes we slept through as the TV continued playing.
Another small bit of advice... rotate your **bleep** commercials like actual TV channels do. I have been trying to watch SLIDERS but if I see that **bleep** T MOBIL musical commercial with Aquaman in it again I may smash my **bleep** TV... I hope your advertisers know how much we end up HATING a product when we are bombarded with the same commercial 4 times per episode while watching 3 to 5 episodes in a day as we binge watch at work or something.
Your business model is so out of touch with the people who use it, I don't know what you could possibly be gaining from it that you couldn't increase advertising sales with a little common sense in place. I understand us USERS are the product not the customer, but if you don't sell a lot of ice cream if you don't keep it frozen if you get my meaning.
DO BETTER!
