I'll never understand the utility of autoplaying videos, especially ones that are barely related or more often completely unrelated (looking at you local and na

I'll never understand the utility of autoplaying videos, especially ones that are barely related or more often completely unrelated (looking at you local and national news websites). Like, is this supposed to just annoy me? Is that annoyance going to make it more likely I'm going to stay on the site, which I'm blocking all the ads on anyways? It's just absolute cancer.