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I'll admit this is offtopic, but why on earth do they insist on putting an unrelated video on autoplay at the top of the page? I'm there to read the article and
by shdon 9y ago
I'll admit this is offtopic, but why on earth do they insist on putting an unrelated video on autoplay at the top of the page? I'm there to read the article and just when I've read the first few sentences, I get distracted by movement and the sound of Linux Torvalds' voice. Something about DRM and GPLv3 which are not at all related to the article contents. Sure, it might be an interesting video, but on autoplay... really?
- test1235 9y agoI like that there's an option to turn off autoplay on the video which has already started ...
- neotek 9y agoYou can disable autoplay in Chrome by navigating to chrome://flags and setting the "autoplay policy" config option to require explicit user activation. In Firefox, navigate to about:config, and change media.autoplay.enabled to false.
- SmellyGeekBoy 9y agoThe video autoplayed for me so I decided to check this setting which I was 99% sure I had already set at some point in the past (I use Chrome). Turns out I had and ZDNet is somehow getting around it. Another site for the blacklist, then.
- krylon 9y agoYou might want to give uMatrix a try. It can be a bit of a pain at times, but in my experience, it catches autoplay videos quite reliably, as well as a lot of ads.
- Traubenfuchs 9y agoI started using Stylebot to permanently delete elements I don't want to see from the pages I visit. Everything becomes so clean. Just the content.
- John_KZ 9y agoVideo views pay a lot more than page views. Also they're just trying to capture your attention regardless of the article. It's an annoying bussiness tactic.