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Honest question, how many of you watch the autoplaying videos on websites ?

They are one of the most infuriating things for me. But I curious to know why is this a popular pattern in websites. Do people actually stop whatever they were planning to do and watch the video ?

I’ve blocked them on all my devices. But once in a while I see them when I use someone else’s devices and I wonder.

seaQueue ,
@seaQueue@lemmy.world avatar

There are auto playing videos on websites?

Mubelotix ,
@Mubelotix@jlai.lu avatar

American news websites

lolcatnip ,

Autoplay is great for pages that you go to specifically to watch videos. It’s a cancer everywhere else.

observantTrapezium ,
@observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca avatar

Have autoplay disabled

howrar ,

I do, and then I forgot why I was on that website to begin with. Takes me forever to get my bearings back. I hate it.

I see people saying that ublock can get rid of those. If someone can share how, that would be awesome. My ublock only blocks ads.

glitch ,

Right click on the video under ublock select block element. A popup will show up in the bottom right where you can fine tune. If the video has a custom right click menu just do it anywhere else and in the fine tune options click select element then the video. Also make sure you use uBlock Origin.

ArcaneSlime ,

Librewolf, disabled by default.

LarkinDePark ,

They say that spam only ever exists because its a social problem, not a technical one. Spam works, there are people who believe the Nigerian princes are going to give them money.

NONE_dc ,
@NONE_dc@lemmy.world avatar

When you try to read some Warhammer 40k lore and those things get in the way, it’s hard not to want to send an Exterminatus to those who created them.

RBWells ,

No. No. No. Do not show me a video. I don’t think anybody wants that, no.

Arfman ,

I hate it when more when I’m on my mobile and have to reserve precious data

intensely_human ,

We all do.

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