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... until clicking the play button.

by jononor 8y ago

21 8y ago
Or until the user switches to alternate browser like I will if Firefox doesn't autoplay soundless animations.
- dgzl 8y ago
  It would take a lot more than that for me to switch from Firefox.
- aaaaaaaaaaab 8y ago
  ok bye
  - dang 8y ago
    Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments so we don't have to ban you again? Your substantive posts are just fine. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
m-p-3 8y ago
or if it allows to whitelist those domains.
codetrotter 8y ago
And when people browse Reddit, do you think they want to individually press play an extra time on each and every video that they look at? Of course they don’t! So everyone ITT saying that “nobody wants automatically playing videos”. Actually yeah, we do, and there are many, and I mean MANY of us.
- jononor 8y ago
  Whitelist Reddit then. Or turn on autoplay for all websites.
  - bllguo 8y ago
    Or maybe we can take the current approach and leave a sensible default for the people who aren't savvy enough? And people like you and I can just toggle the option?
    - robryan 8y ago
      Do the majority really want autoplay? Facebook forced it on people and made it hard to find the disable option.
      - wlesieutre 8y ago
        On pages that I go to specifically to play a media file, yes. Maybe a reasonable middle ground would be that each page can auto-play a single video element? There are probably uses that I'm not thinking of (or don't partake in) where this would still be a problem for people.
- marcosdumay 8y ago
  Well, I'm the only person I know personally that spends time browsing reddit on his phones (because on a PC videos do not autoplay), and I've installed a different client mostly because it won't autoplay anything. But I do have a lot of friends that spend time browsing facebook, and not a single one likes autoplaying videos, either wanted or unwanted ones. Videos do not get into your screen at the same exact time you focus your attention on them. On the occasion that you'll want to watch the video, autoplaying just forces you to see a lot of out of context spoilers and video endings.

... until clicking the play button.

21 8y ago

Or until the user switches to alternate browser like I will if Firefox doesn't autoplay soundless animations.

dgzl 8y ago
It would take a lot more than that for me to switch from Firefox.
aaaaaaaaaaab 8y ago
ok bye
- dang 8y ago
  Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments so we don't have to ban you again? Your substantive posts are just fine. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

m-p-3 8y ago

or if it allows to whitelist those domains.

codetrotter 8y ago

And when people browse Reddit, do you think they want to individually press play an extra time on each and every video that they look at? Of course they don’t! So everyone ITT saying that “nobody wants automatically playing videos”. Actually yeah, we do, and there are many, and I mean MANY of us.

jononor 8y ago
Whitelist Reddit then. Or turn on autoplay for all websites.
- bllguo 8y ago
  Or maybe we can take the current approach and leave a sensible default for the people who aren't savvy enough? And people like you and I can just toggle the option?
  - robryan 8y ago
    Do the majority really want autoplay? Facebook forced it on people and made it hard to find the disable option.
    - wlesieutre 8y ago
      On pages that I go to specifically to play a media file, yes. Maybe a reasonable middle ground would be that each page can auto-play a single video element? There are probably uses that I'm not thinking of (or don't partake in) where this would still be a problem for people.
marcosdumay 8y ago
Well, I'm the only person I know personally that spends time browsing reddit on his phones (because on a PC videos do not autoplay), and I've installed a different client mostly because it won't autoplay anything. But I do have a lot of friends that spend time browsing facebook, and not a single one likes autoplaying videos, either wanted or unwanted ones. Videos do not get into your screen at the same exact time you focus your attention on them. On the occasion that you'll want to watch the video, autoplaying just forces you to see a lot of out of context spoilers and video endings.