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Is auto playing embedded video is becoming the new norm? I opened the link on iPad and the video on the page auto plays but on mute. Anyone else having this pr

Is auto playing embedded video is becoming the new norm? I opened the link on iPad and the video on the page auto plays but on mute. Anyone else having this problem?

iamthirsty 9y ago
> becoming I've found it already is the new norm.
Deimorz 9y ago
It's absolutely the new norm. Most news sites have an autoplaying video on almost every article now. Sometimes the video will even follow you down the page as you scroll. Even worse, sometimes the video isn't even about the same story. I guess they just desperately need to show you a video even if they don't have a very relevant one. It's terrible, and yet another reason to block almost everything by default with something like uMatrix.
- SAI_Peregrinus 9y ago
  Also a good reason to disable autoplay in your browser.
  - a3n 9y ago
    In Firefox 57, shockwave allows disabling autoplay, but H264's plugin only gives you Always or Never; Ask is there but greyed out. ?
    - SAI_Peregrinus 9y ago
      Set media.autoplay.enabled to false in about:config.
- stickfigure 9y ago
  I thought I was the last holdout, but I finally added a Chrome plugin that disables javascript on a domain-by-domain basis. At this point I have JS disabled for pretty much every single news-related site - cnn, nytimes, bloomberg, sfgate, wsj, salon, etc... and dozens of less notable ones. It's incredible how much more usable these websites are without JS. No autoplay, no popups, no "CPU goes to 100% and scrolling takes 5s to respond". And usually it disables the paywall. These sites are quite literally training their audience to disable Javascript.
  - jlgaddis 9y ago
    OT: WRT CNN, you might prefer "CNN Lite" [0]. I certainly do. I can't even stand to view their home page anymore. [0]: https://lite.cnn.io/ https://lite.cnn.io/
Ileca 9y ago
media.autoplay.enabled = false on Firefox made my days so much brighter. Even on youtube, not having channels autoplaying some default video was a fresh breeze. You don't have to be on the lookout anymore each time you feel some sound or video might jump at your ears. Talking about wired, it is SO GOOD to read "We're sorry, something went wrong." when their videos fail to deliver their crap to you!
TeMPOraL 9y ago
It's been a norm for a year or two now. It's reason #243 for using an ad blocker and/or plugins disabling JS on non-whitelisted pages.

Is auto playing embedded video is becoming the new norm? I opened the link on iPad and the video on the page auto plays but on mute. Anyone else having this problem?

iamthirsty 9y ago

> becoming I've found it already is the new norm.

Deimorz 9y ago

It's absolutely the new norm. Most news sites have an autoplaying video on almost every article now. Sometimes the video will even follow you down the page as you scroll. Even worse, sometimes the video isn't even about the same story. I guess they just desperately need to show you a video even if they don't have a very relevant one. It's terrible, and yet another reason to block almost everything by default with something like uMatrix.

SAI_Peregrinus 9y ago
Also a good reason to disable autoplay in your browser.
- a3n 9y ago
  In Firefox 57, shockwave allows disabling autoplay, but H264's plugin only gives you Always or Never; Ask is there but greyed out. ?
  - SAI_Peregrinus 9y ago
    Set media.autoplay.enabled to false in about:config.
stickfigure 9y ago
I thought I was the last holdout, but I finally added a Chrome plugin that disables javascript on a domain-by-domain basis. At this point I have JS disabled for pretty much every single news-related site - cnn, nytimes, bloomberg, sfgate, wsj, salon, etc... and dozens of less notable ones. It's incredible how much more usable these websites are without JS. No autoplay, no popups, no "CPU goes to 100% and scrolling takes 5s to respond". And usually it disables the paywall. These sites are quite literally training their audience to disable Javascript.
- jlgaddis 9y ago
  OT: WRT CNN, you might prefer "CNN Lite" [0]. I certainly do. I can't even stand to view their home page anymore. [0]: https://lite.cnn.io/ https://lite.cnn.io/

Ileca 9y ago

media.autoplay.enabled = false on Firefox made my days so much brighter. Even on youtube, not having channels autoplaying some default video was a fresh breeze. You don't have to be on the lookout anymore each time you feel some sound or video might jump at your ears. Talking about wired, it is SO GOOD to read "We're sorry, something went wrong." when their videos fail to deliver their crap to you!

TeMPOraL 9y ago

It's been a norm for a year or two now. It's reason #243 for using an ad blocker and/or plugins disabling JS on non-whitelisted pages.