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It’s insane that a certain demographic responds positively to overstimulation, affirming these choices. I’m an avid cooker and I fucking hate the auto play vid
by t34543 7y ago
It’s insane that a certain demographic responds positively to overstimulation, affirming these choices.
I’m an avid cooker and I fucking hate the auto play video on serious eats.
I like to think the people reading that content are not as susceptible to annoying webpages but I think I am wrong.
- acheron 7y agoI set up a whole separate style with Stylus to get rid of the autoplay videos on Serious Eats. Also fixed up their site in a couple other ways as well.
- square_usual 7y agoYou can block autoplay on Firefox without having to use any extensions.
- turkeydonkey 7y agoI have ADHD and discovering that setting was a godsend. It's definitely reduced the number of ublock origin rules I've had to create.
- DanBC 7y agoThe problem isn't so much that videos autoplay. The problem is that there's no way for people to set it to "off" as an option, and that any time this option is suggested or implemented someone will see how they can override it, because "people don't really want to block the videos our our site".
- pixelrevision 7y agoAnalytics don’t provide context. My wife hates autoplay videos and those “blog posts” that now appear before all the recipes. Unfortunately turning off the video and having to scroll around trying to find the recipe is increasing her “engagement”.
- satyrnein 7y agoRecipes can't be copyrighted and are basically undifferentiated. I suspect the resulting strategy is to try to hook you with the commentary, so that you like or relate to the author, making future visits more likely. The relevant metrics would be things like returning visitors, not necessarily time on site or clicks on "mute".
- boring_twenties 7y agoabout:config media.autoplay.enabled = false