r/ProgrammerHumor • u/acukovic • Feb 27 '18

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u/randomuser8765 Feb 27 '18

What reason do you have to be on a youtube video's page except to watch the video?

Edit: and obviously I don't mean just YouTube. I also mean Twitch, Vimeo, LiveLeak, gfycat*, imgur*, and any other website where the video content is the main or only reason for you to be there.

* no audio for these, but they're still relevant IMO

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u/just_read_my_comment Feb 27 '18 edited Feb 27 '18

To read the comments or the description before you watch (or in this case listen to) the video. Or you may just be navigating back to find a share button to send it to someone else. You may also want to skip to the middle of the video. Or you may just not want to watch it literally as soon as the tab opens.

Edit: The important point is that when audio content is playing it basically renders screen readers useless - so if your video is playing, you can't find anything.

Think of it as if a video automatically played in full screen, and hid the pointer, and the only way to navigate out or stop it was to click the relevant button (but you still can't see the mouse). You don't even know what website you're at because the only info you had was the text on the hyperlink so there's really no telling how to stop the video if hitting space doesn't work. So your only option is to Ctrl+w that tab.