Systems and methods for altering a progress bar to prevent spoilers in a media asset

A system for altering progress bars to prevent spoilers in media assets, comprising:

• user input circuitry;
• and
• control circuitry configured to:
• generate for display a media asset;
• detect input from a user during playback of the media asset;
• determine whether the input comprises a command to display a progress bar indicating progress of the playback of the media asset;
• and
• in response to the determination that the user input comprises the command to display the progress bar, determine a current point of playback of the media asset;
• determine a segment of the media asset comprising the current point of playback;
• determine a type of the segment;
• retrieve, from a database, an entry that maps the type to a range of time;
• compute a remaining time of the media asset by subtracting the current point of playback from a total playback time of the media asset;
• determine whether the remaining time of the media asset is within the range of time;
• in response to the determination that the remaining time of the media asset is within the range of time, determine that displaying the progress bar would spoil the media asset;
• and
• in response to the determination that displaying the progress bar would spoil the media asset, refrain from generating display of the progress bar based on the command.