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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.

lolcatnip ,

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

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.

ndupont ,

Nope, auto play is disabled here too

AlecSadler ,

Not me. In fact if it isn’t blocked and I can’t easily get rid of it, I’ll bail on the site altogether.

Honestly don’t understand what the benefit to anybody is. If I want to watch it, I will, if I don’t, I want. They’re just making the overall experience worse.

I assume it’s some bonehead manager that thinks it looks cool or will increase engagement though.

davoid ,

None of me do.

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.

Zier ,
@Zier@fedia.io avatar

Nothing ever auto plays on my devices. uBlock Origin & Firefox allow me to decide how my experience plays (ba-dum-tiss) out.

communism ,
@communism@lemmy.ml avatar

I never watch them and block them if I ever see any

Mothra ,
@Mothra@mander.xyz avatar

Not me, and most people here won’t. You’re asking the wrong demographic.

My mother for example, she watches everything on any website she visits, and she doesn’t always tap video popups away since she knows she sometimes gets accidentally redirected elsewhere. My father and I have offered her adblockers many times, but she always strongly rejects it. She doesn’t want anyone meddling with her phone and she finds adblockers annoying because, very occasionally, they will block content she actually wants to watch and no, she doesn’t remember how to allow permissions for exceptions in such cases.

I bet she’s like the majority of people out there. Most don’t mind the ads and some even go for the bait.

scrubbles ,
@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech avatar

Yep, we all know they’re horrible UI/UX, but OP is asking a demographic who knows what UI/UX even means. Most people see nothing wrong with the modern internet, and view ads and unskippable videos as the norm, with no alternative, and happily consume it all.

HotsauceHurricane ,

Autoplayed videos are the devil. If an add autoplays i report it.

cmbabul ,

This is actually what o truly do not understand about marketing, how are they so disconnected as to think that folks are actually watching and paying attention to that shit. Are they just delusional?

son_named_bort ,

Never, they’re the Internet equivalent of those people who listen to their music in public without headphones.

seaQueue ,
@seaQueue@lemmy.world avatar

There are auto playing videos on websites?

Mubelotix ,
@Mubelotix@jlai.lu avatar

American news websites

nokturne213 ,

If the video cannot be closed or easily adblocked I leave the website.

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