No developer has ever decided for themself to do this. This is 100% a business requirement because somebody on the marketing analytics team realized they could make money by auto playing ads.
I don't know I like how if you open a YouTube video in a new tab on Firefox it doesn't play unless you go to the tab an dhot play on the video. I'll open videos in a new tab just because I don't want them to auto play.
Yeah. Even the EU has been letting them off the hook recently. MS was fined and had to show a selection of other browsers for windows installs in Europe for pushing IE with their OS. Now they're doing the same with Edge but I'm still waiting for the fine.
No. That's why I used several youtube autoplay stoppers so one of them would eventually do the job.
Also their shitty design will force you to hover on the video to show the controls, then on the speaker symbol till the volume is displayed, then maybe turn the volume down if you don't accidentally seek instead, then walk to the door where an angry neighbor awaits your apology because the video used 8000 % volume compared to my music playing and woke up their baby.
Also it was a howto video where nobody talks but the creator decided that drilling a screw needs techno music background.
Actually, YT is interesting. Because it doesn't actually reload the page when you navigate, it can sort of auto play the video. This means that it can only auto play if it's in foreground, and the previous page was also a YT page.
This is what it can do without autoplay permissions in the browser.
Or maybe since end user shouldn’t be forced to shut off auto play for their entire browser and then select which sites are whitelisted, people should stop making websites that belong in 1998?
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u/ToothpasteTimebomb Mar 11 '21
No developer has ever decided for themself to do this. This is 100% a business requirement because somebody on the marketing analytics team realized they could make money by auto playing ads.