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Definitely. It's just an HTML5 video tag with a 'position: fixed' CSS style (plus almost always some JavaScript logic). Here's a very recent link that does it

Definitely. It's just an HTML5 video tag with a 'position: fixed' CSS style (plus almost always some JavaScript logic). Here's a very recent link that does it on both my phone and computer: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-no-deal-boris-johnson-local-council-spending-planning-a9037951.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-no-dea... Though I live in a rich country, I used to have "only" 500MB/month of mobile data. I could open many small text/image websites, but open one of those autoplaying videos (which sometimes serve even high definition on small screens) and my mobile data for multiple days is gone in seconds. I can only imagine how worse it must be for people in poor countries.

tgsovlerkhgsel 7y ago
> I can only imagine how worse it must be for people in poor countries. Ironically, much better because they tend to have a much better mobile infrastructure. For example, in India someone pays "less than $3 a month for unlimited free calls. With that he gets 42GB of 4G data, at 1.5GB a day, which he uses for viewing videos and for WhatsApp calls to his family and friends in the state of Bihar" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-47537201 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-47537201 Even if you multiply that by 4 to account for purchasing power parity (with the US), that's dirt cheap for such a plan.