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Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media in Browsers
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Re: Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media in Browsers
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your know there are HN readers who write this crap. I wonder if they'll chime in on why they do.
At my last job at a web agency, I was told to make a newsletter popup that opened on first page load. I said to my project manager (he was a web developer before) that it was bad design and everyone finds it annoying. He said that the client wanted it, and I should just do it. I asked him, what if the client wanted a pink unicorn gif in the corner, should we just do that as well? Without telling the client that it do…
I wouldn't speak so definitivly regarding something you don't know for sure. Everyone doesn't find them annoying enough to make them ineffective.
The website probably won't cry over your bounce if it means they'll collect an email optin from someone else.
Auto play video is bad for reasons beyond a pop in modal and reasons beyond annoying video ads.
Re: Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media in Browsers
#123firefox -> about:config -> media.autoplay.enabled = false additionally the dom.audiochannel.mutedByDefault and media.default_volume settings may also be useful if you want slightly different behavior. If you want a more blunt tool you can also use content blockers to block media content until you opt into it for a particular site. > I know there are plugins than can somewhat do this, but no solutions are universal or…
I'm taking a more drastic way; turning media.{mp4, webm, ...}.enabled into False never let YouTube and other media autoplay(even play nomally) without any addons. When I want to watch videos, download them by youtube-dl and watch locally.
Why would you want that?
Re: Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media in Browsers
#124Apple has been going so far as to automatically disable Flash, which really helps.
Re: Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media in Browsers
#125firefox -> about:config -> media.autoplay.enabled = false additionally the dom.audiochannel.mutedByDefault and media.default_volume settings may also be useful if you want slightly different behavior. If you want a more blunt tool you can also use content blockers to block media content until you opt into it for a particular site. > I know there are plugins than can somewhat do this, but no solutions are universal or…
I'm taking a more drastic way; turning media.{mp4, webm, ...}.enabled into False never let YouTube and other media autoplay(even play nomally) without any addons. When I want to watch videos, download them by youtube-dl and watch locally.
You download YT videos before watching them? Seriously? Sometimes the suggestions on HN are literally insane in the amount of effort people go through to avoid things that wouldn't be a problem in the first place if you did something simple like use adblock software.
I saw some other post where a guy hand edits tens of thousands of entries in his hosts file... yeah dude what an amazing use of time.
Re: Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media in Browsers
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did that buy youtube is still on autoplay.
Y'know, youtube is one of the few sites where people actually want autoplay to work.
>> youtube is one of the few sites where people actually want autoplay
Not me. I usually open a few tabs at the same time and have to stop every video manually. That's pretty annoying. I wish it didn't have autoplay.
Re: Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media in Browsers
#127firefox -> about:config -> media.autoplay.enabled = false additionally the dom.audiochannel.mutedByDefault and media.default_volume settings may also be useful if you want slightly different behavior. If you want a more blunt tool you can also use content blockers to block media content until you opt into it for a particular site. > I know there are plugins than can somewhat do this, but no solutions are universal or…
I'm taking a more drastic way; turning media.{mp4, webm, ...}.enabled into False never let YouTube and other media autoplay(even play nomally) without any addons. When I want to watch videos, download them by youtube-dl and watch locally.
I use butterflies to watch videos
http://xkcd.com/378/
Re: Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media in Browsers
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Never understood how autoplaying video, especially ads, became an acceptable UX for so many sites. And, it seems that the advent of ad blockers has made this worse. Like, some sites are abusing people as much possible to offset revenue losses. I was also surprised at how difficult it is to get a modern browser to consistently disable the feature.
When it's ads served over an ad network, the site honestly doesn't have a lot of control over what content goes in the ad boxes. Advertisers don't really care, either - it's not their user experience they're garbaging up.
So use an adblocker to give them lesson.
Re: Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media in Browsers
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm taking a more drastic way; turning media.{mp4, webm, ...}.enabled into False never let YouTube and other media autoplay(even play nomally) without any addons. When I want to watch videos, download them by youtube-dl and watch locally.
Why would you want that?
One good reason for me personally is to insure future availability. As I type this, there are a couple of videos in my watch-later playlist that have been replaced with "video removed".
Re: Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media in Browsers
#1301. Use a predefined adblocking hosts file on your system, if you have Linux, just replace your existing /etc/hosts file with this https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
This will kill 90% of popups and autoloading, for the others..
2. If you use Chrome, use the option that stops plug-ins autoloading (search for plugins in the Settings search-box)
3. If you use Firefox, remove or simply don't install Flash. For HTML5 you should look for controls that stop autoplaying.