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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
by 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 agoAlso a good reason to disable autoplay in your browser.
- a3n 9y agoIn 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 agoSet media.autoplay.enabled to false in about:config.
- stickfigure 9y agoI 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 agoOT: 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/