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Why does any site believe that playing video at me without giving me a chance to consent to it or an obvious "stop doing this" button is a good idea? How does
by marcus_holmes 6y ago
Why does any site believe that playing video at me without giving me a chance to consent to it or an obvious "stop doing this" button is a good idea?
How does anyone come to the conclusion that this will increase their ad revenue/interaction/readability/whatever metric they want to measure?
I'm fascinated by what they think will be their reader's reaction to this. Did they do any research? If so, who did they pick as subjects? Does anyone like having a website play video automatically?
- mattmoose21 6y agoFirefox has a feature where you can block audio/audio&video from autoplaying, works really well.
- sodality2 6y agoThat's enabled by default, on all major browsers, I'm fairly certain. Unless you click or have autoplayed in the past from that site it's a policy to not allow autoplaying video/audio unless the video is muted (<video> tag specifically)
- marcus_holmes 6y agoAs far as I'm aware I've never allowed anything to autoplay video. If a site has video on it then I immediately try to mute/stop it (hence my frustration with this site where there doesn't appear to be any way of stopping the video. I ended up closing the tab).
- sodality2 6y agoI'd suspect you clicked on something and they have `onclick=play()` or something.