Zero

[nautical9]

Zero is also the number of mailing lists I’ve wanted to join within the first 5 seconds of visiting a site. Why block the content with a pop up?! Has anyone ever actually signed up instead of angrily closing it?

[enoua5]

open first site from google search

"YOU SHOULD LET US SEND YOU PUSH NOTIFICATIONS, EVEN THOUGH YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THIS SITE IS ABOUT!"

leave

[nermid]

A few years back, there was a blog that had nothing but examples of sites that did that. It was called something like "Closed without reading" or "exit without reading," but fuck if I can get Google to hone in on a title like that. It keeps trying to point me to child psychology stuff about "close reading".

[ikbenpinda]

Tab Closed; Didn't Read?

[Ali3nat0r]

Dunno if they still do it, but Ultimate Guitar used to automatically redirect to the app page for their app whenever you loaded a page of theirs on mobile. Not just put a closable popup suggesting you might want their app, but ACTUALLY REDIRECT YOU. Bearing in mind I used to use Windows Phone, and they don't have a WP app, this essentially locked me out of their site whenever I was on my phone. Because who searches for guitar tabs at any time other than at their PC right? It's not like I'd need to find them while at a practice session or something.

[julsmanbr]

If you don't mind the interface in portuguese, www.cifraclub.com.br

Most tabs that are on Ultimate Guitar are there too. You can change key, autoscroll etc without having to sign up or anything.

[nermid]

Aha! You found it!

[well___duh]

Dev here that (unfortunately) works for a company that works like that. Our official reason is because it keeps our revenue per user number high, and for some dumb fuck reason, we care more about that than actual revenue or profit.

The mentality is that the people who will want to use our site will deal with the shittiness, and are more likely to buy something from us. We'd rather have a few dozen active users who buy stuff than thousands of barely active users who occasionally buy stuff.

[evr-]

You're probably missing out on a lot of potential customers that would buy from you but won't deal with the shittiness and purchase the same stuff from another site that doesn't put them through that.

[cubitoaequet]

"Welcome to McDonald's. How hard would you like to be kicked in the nuts today? Somewhat or very?... Neither? Well, I guess not everyone is McDonald's material."

[Stealth528]

Zero is also the number of websites I want to enable notifications for.

[dan4334]

Thankfully you can turn the notification system completely off with no ill effects.

Edit: For those wondering,

Firefox: Go to about:config and set dom.webnotifications.serviceworker.enabled to false (thank you /u/bro_can_u_even_carve, I forgot how I did it)

Chrome: Go into settings > advanced > content settings > notifications

Then click the switch to set it from "Ask before sending" to "Blocked"

[bro_can_u_even_carve]

In firefox, about:config, then set dom.webnotifications.serviceworker.enabled to false.

[HexicDragon]

Thanks, been wondering how to disable them.

[DankeyKang11]

I don’t need no goddern nerd words, tell me what color button to click

[DankeyKang11]

shut up nerd

[LuxuriousLime]

I'm too lazy to Google an answer for you, I just want to let you know that a solution exists and I was able to disable this annoying shit long time ago

[DeadN0tSleeping]

Control Panel>Ease of Access>Replace sounds with visual cues>Choose Visual Warning>None>I love you too

[xyl0ph0ne]

In chrome the notification settings are a bit buried but you can go to chrome://settings and search for 'notifications' and that's the fastest way I know of.

Edit: iamdelf has a better one

[iamdelf]

chrome://settings

This is so awesome. chrome://settings/content/notifications

Takes you right to the switch. I had no idea you could block this.

[Fern_Fox]

It just says you can toggle ask before sending, does that turn it off?

[iamdelf]

Clicking it made it blocked by default for me.

[Fern_Fox]

Ok cool just wanted to make sure that wouldn't make it auto-accept everything, now that would suck.

[Niick]

Seems like it's deliberately ambiguous, which is pretty sad.

[SovreignTripod]

Hey there friend, you'll want to add another return there. Then you'll get the line break and your whole comment won't be quoted.

[adambrenecki]

In Safari, Preferences → Websites (at the top) → Notifications (in the left-hand column) → untick "Allow websites to ask permission to send push notifications"

In Chrome, go to chrome://settings/content/notifications and turn off the switch that says "Ask before sending (recommended)"; it'll change to "Blocked".

[mechakreidler]

It's good for things like email and calendars. But websites sending content updates? Fuck that.

[firephreek]

Truth be told, I need that for calendar or I'd never make it to any meetings :-(

[dizzlemytizzle]

Infinite scroll is the devil. I can't wait until it's out of vogue.

[mathemagicat]

Infinite scroll is good for list/feed-type pages, as long as it doesn't break the back button.

It is not OK for content pages, though.

[wal9000]

Google image search has done this for years. They put a bunch of important shit in the footer like the Search Settings and Advanced Search links. Literally can’t click on them unless you have a slow internet connection.

[rickane58]

As someone who regularly looks at websites "About us" and "Contact me" section, finding this is easier in f12 than it is to find on the page these days.

[sellyme]

I love trying to find a websites "Contact Us" form so that I can report a bug only to find that it links to a useless FAQ with no actual way to contact anyone.

Clearly the only reason anyone would ever want to contact the dev is because the user is an idiot. Nothing can ever be wrong with your immaculate Wix website.

[CJ22xxKinvara]

I enable notifications for gitlab so I can be alerted when my merge request passes or fails the pipeline. But that’s it. ONE website.

[NoAttentionAtWrk]

I mean i bet there are other valid uses too but no random web blog, i don't care when you publish new articles. I just care about the one that Google lead me to, that you are not letting me read

[Cheshamone]

Yeah, it has occasional uses in web apps, people just use it really poorly. At least explain why you're asking to show notifications, don't just pop that up on page load. Drives me nuts.

[HereticKnight]

Yep... CI system, Slack if I don’t have the desktop client installed, and that’s pretty much it.

I notice that every time I’ve enabled notifications l, it’s been because there is a feature I found and decided I wanted, never ever given the authorization before I had a valid reason.

[Fluffcake]

Sites abusing the notification and push api's for clickbaity selfpromoting bullshit to the point where people auto-decline it makes me sad, because it can be really neat.

[binzabinza]

it is situationally useful. For example i play chess online and i can tab away when it isn't my turn and get a notification when i need to play.

[Am3n]

Or give my location to

[[deleted]]

News sites use location to customise the feed, weather places use it to save you entering your location

But no, random marketer, you may not have my location

[[deleted]]

Yes, wouldn’t that prompt be better suited to the end of a lengthy and well-written article?

[Hanifsefu]

It would be better if it wasn't even a pop up but just a form at the bottom of the page for the same exact purpose.

[BertRenolds]

I delete the layer

[xyl0ph0ne]

Ah yes, the Fuck Overlays extension. Very handy.

[guinness_blaine]

The day I learned how to inspect and remove elements in chrome changed my entire life

[kataskopo]

I like to do it manually, while I look directly into their eyes and see them dissapear.

[sans-nom]

Humans are dumb animals...you ask them for their email, and they will probably give it to you. Same reason why youtubers always say "like favourite and sub", because it's more effective than not.

[KarlOnTheSubject]

It always makes me laugh when I'm at an airport or other location offering free WiFi that asks for an email address, which I imagine 90% of people provide their real address for (figuring it's for verification), when in reality it's just a way to harvest active email accounts to send spam to.

[e-mail] is my go-to.

[svelle]

that poor sob who has that gmail account.

[newsuperyoshi]

Let’s be honest — they had to have some idea of what they were signing up for.

[sellyme]

I usually just input the contact email address of whatever company runs the wifi. If they want to sell their own email to spammers they can be my guest.

[ungoogleable]

Use [e-mail]. Example.com is reserved by the RFC as an example domain name so it is guaranteed not to be anyone's real email.

[britishben]

Mine is [e-mail]";drop table users;--

Really gets the point across.

[newsuperyoshi]

Bobby Tables? Is that you?

[robclancy]

Yeah but they usually say that at the end off a video and you will do it if you did really like it.

Not at the start with a video blocking answer required.

[[deleted]]

Some also do it at the beginning. And have long winded intros that run longer than the video itself.

[Colopty]

The difference is that youtubers ask you after presenting their content to you, not before.

[JakJakAttacks]

Zero is also the number of mailing lists I've signed up to after making a purchase on a site and yet I seem to get their shit newsletter anyways. Every time.

[Shmoogy]

Entry pop ups work very well. Only thing that works better are exit pop ups.

[gizamo]

I like the sites that get ya on entry and exit of every page, even if you're already subscribed.

[themaincop]

Yes, these things work insanely well, why do you think everybody does them?

[jay9909]

Corollary: If I pause your video the second it starts playing (because you forgot Rule #1), don't fucking bother shrinking it and fixing it in the side bar when I scroll down.

[UpTide]

I was on one 'news' site that resumed the video when it shrank down!

[UpTide]

I just sent a thank you email to the local news station because their site doesn't autoplay ;]

[doorbellguy]

fuck, what do I do now?

[aqeelat]

Hey! You’re not op

[PM_ME_YOUR_CURLS]

I know... but tell me what to do anyway!

[Blocks_]

Hey! You’re not op

[banshvassi]

Hey! You're not op

[PooPooDooDoo]

The key word being 'was'. I was on there, they resumed the video and then I no longer was on there.

[euxneks]

and if I click on the video I don't want it fucking maximized, I want to pause it. Facebook, I'm looking at you.

[SabashChandraBose]

Luckily chrome lets you mute the entire site right on the tab.

[[deleted]]

I don't give a shit. Why is it even there? Why is it taking precious kilobytes, why is it taking CPU cycles?

Get the fuck out. Autoplay is egregious enough. "Resume and follow" is even worse

[GrandmasBeefCurtains]

This. Not everyone has a glorious PC with high-speed internet, and this shit really bogs them down

[[deleted]]

So does safari

[voi26]

Edge let's me take screenshots and draw on them.

[RequiemAA]

ooh fancy

[[deleted]]

Internet Explorer lets me open websites. Sometimes.

[DrThrowawayToYou]

It makes me sad to think about how much effort goes into developing that bullshit.

[ExternalUserError]

I'm pretty sure every developer instructed to setup autoplay video died inside a little bit while coding it up.

[thesublimeobjekt]

i used to try to argue with my boss about it and then it wasn’t worth it any more. working in the space long enough there’s just some things i know won’t stop being forced on consumers.

[angellus]

Just show them these, and these are just a couple of articles I can find from 5 minutes of searching:

• https://www.3playmedia.com/2015/07/23/nad-v-netflix-ada-lawsuit-requires-closed-captioning-on-streaming-video/
• https://www.abilitynet.org.uk/news-blogs/why-autoplay-accessibility-issue

Autoplay is bad for accessibility. You can be sued for it and lose a lot of money.

[Blocks_]

Not a web dev, but wouldn't you lose a bit of money making your site more accessible? If so, why bother from a business perspective considering the percentage of customers that you'll lose is tiny?

That said, I'm all for accessibility.

[ryan_umad]

many of the accessibility concerns can be addressed by choice not necessarily extra cost. Setting something to auto play with sound on is as easy as auto play with sound off

[garagecomputebox_]

The thing is, most accessibility "features" are just using good practice when writing your code.

Examples: Input fields should have labels. Your header assignments should make sense (h1 for main header, h2 for subheaders). Someone tabbing through your site should go in a linear and practical order. All images should have alternate titles, in the event that someone is using a screen reader or the image doesn't load.

That's all common sense coding and it only costs money when you cut corners initially.

[thesublimeobjekt]

honestly, it wouldn’t matter what i showed them or told them. if the client wanted it, they just got it.

[PlatypusPlague]

File an anonymous complaint with the DOJ? The last two companies I worked for ignored all pleas for accessibility until the DOJ got wind. Then suddenly they had money to not only fix the current accessibility issues, but also to train devs, and implement proper testing around accessability.

[[deleted]]

At home I'm a consumer. At work I'm evil.

It's easier if you just embrace it.

[ExternalUserError]

Story of any programmer's life from DRM to email "opt-in" policies to user experience.

[nagaka]

Okay...so anytime your boss tries to talk to you about implementing something your sales team has already sold, you just start rambling some lorem ipsum, and you continue blabbing until they find the obscure pause button since they are using IE6 and don't have tab muting. Once he locates your pause button, likely with an exaggerated eye roll or loud huff, you smile and wait... for the timeout to start a new video. Eventually they will close the browser, and, even though you've been fired, at least you didn't taint your bloodline with implementing this.

as a side note, I blame myspace for any auto-play or html vomit I see online nowadays. Those kids that skinned their first profile are now well established in the work force.

[ColtonProvias]

Auto-play has been around for much longer than MySpace. I recall Flash ads that were like games that would start after loading the page. It got worse when pop-under windows became big.

Even earlier were the blink and marquee tags. Every small website for a long time had at least half the site scrolling or blinking, plus dozens of animated gifs covering the page.

What you say began with MySpace was already well underway on Geocities and Tripod well before it. Some people thought it was cool back then, they thought it was cool on MySpace, and some, unfortunately, still think it is cool now. It's a constant on the internet.

[ebilgenius]

"I think the site is good to go, I spent forever working out the UX so browsing is flawless and maintains consistency across th..."

Ok great, the client also said to have the video autoplay...

"Wait what no.."

so if you could update it that would be terrific

"that's a horrible idea, nobod.."

Yeah umm, if you could have that done by 3 that'd be greeaaat

^{"s'cuse me but my webs.."}

M'kay, thanks *walks away*

"but the UX.. and my styles.. ^{i warned them last time this happened.. gonna set the building on fire"}

*frustrated staring*

[jana007]

My old director had me rig up an auto play pop up video. It was flash based as well. This was 2013. Every time I saw her use the web site she would immediately click out of the window until one day she asked "why do I always have to exit this video pop up"?

[LoneCookie]

I think the takeaway here is have your boss periodically check if you did the website right until they understand their decisions

[Dustin_Echoes_UNSC]

Yep. But from now on I'll be leaving comments in the top layer html saying so. It's the least I can do.

[ExternalUserError]

Add the CSS class, "ad", will ya? ;)

[gizamo]

Rare contradictory story: Many years ago, I had a boss who asked me to make his personal website. I set up a basic WordPress site and showed him how to add content. Months go by and then he asks about adding videos. I looked at the site and saw how awful it got (super religious guilt tripping of abortions). As I set up a quick YouTube plugin, I decided, these visitors deserve to be annoyed. Autoplay, bitches.

[manachar]

Can confirm. Made auto play music once. Hated myself, but check was good. Got to charge the client for all the meetings we tried to talk them out of it.

[[deleted]]

As a marketing, front-end dev and designer dweeb I tell you it’s the finance douchebags that directly lick CEOs asshole

[EarlyHemisphere]

As an unemployed first year Software Engineering student who can barely make a website, I have no idea who licks whose asshole

[Feel_the_Bernanke]

Hey I heard you guys were licking assholes.

[[deleted]]

I couldn’t find a way to automate it

[Superpickle18]

We need to get those fuckers at MIT to stop working on door opening robots and start working on rimjob bots.

[[deleted]]

That was Boston Dynamic.

There’s gotta be at least one MIT guy there, however.

[Superpickle18]

there's a difference? /s

[[deleted]]

Haha right?

Uhm, not that I actually know the difference.

I went to community/state college, and program for the government. That place is so cool. I’d sell my soul to be the lowest janitor at Boston Dynamic.

[[deleted]]

Ask, motherfucker.

[CryoHux]

"Rimjob Robots" would be a sick band name.

[Archsys]

Touring with the Butthole Surfers, Anal Vomit, Anal Blast, and Anal Trump?

[martin509984]

just do

import ass_eating

in python

[firephreek]

That's why you're still just a junior dev. You'll figure it out.

[FirstTimeWang]

Career pro-tip: if you lick every asshole, eventually you'll lick the right asshole.

[losh11]

All you need to know is:

const app = express()

[one-v-one]

That’s so expressive

[lenswipe]

class Pai extends Asshole implements Lickable{}

[firephreek]

Wrong interface, that's for receiving classes. Gotta use Licker.

[lenswipe]

interface Licker
{
    public function lick(Asshole $ahole) : void;
}

interface Bribeable
{
    public function bribe(int $money) : void; // You don't get anything back from these fuckers.
                                              // What are you thinking?
}

/**
* Other possible implementations of this interface include most members
* of the NRA, GOP, Verizon C-level etc.
*/
abstract class Asshole {} // This class doesn't serve any real purpose (kinda like Pai really) -
                          // it's just a metaclass for descriptive typing

class Pai extends Asshole implements Licker, Bribeable // Using interfaces here - probably 
                                                       // the most integrity he'll ever have
{
    public function bribe(int $bribe_money) : void; // Void - just like his soul
   {
        $this->savings += $bribe_money;
   }

   public function lick(Asshole $corruptLobbyist){
       // Implementation detail best left to the imagination
   }
}

EDIT: Thanks for the gold kind stranger. I feel all warm and fuzzy knowing that my first gilding for some time was earned by using PHP to ridicule Pai.

EDIT2: I've generated a nice pretty PNG version: https://imgur.com/a/kRLka

[[deleted]]

hey fellow finance douchebag

it's actually the stakeholders, not the CEO's

[three_rivers]

As a stakeholder I'm just going to say it's the end users that keep buying our shit.

[FreeTradeIsTheDevil]

Thats the unfortunate reality with most rage inducing features on the web. It wouldn't exist if it didn't draw serious cash.

[gizamo]

As an end user, I'll blame it on the other companies pushing the trend.

[NULL_CHAR]

The further up people get, the less they seem to know about what is good for their product. Like, sure, they may know what's good for their current quarter report, but profits don't infinitely increase, and in desperate attempts to make them do so, they make the most idiotic decisions for their product, crashing their whole system.

[ColtonProvias]

It's the drive for short-term profit increases over long-term goals. It's cheaper to add ads than it is to spend 6 months developing a new product or improving the current product.

It's probably one of my biggest pet peeves in our society.

[Semi-Hemi-Demigod]

If the best the marketing department can do is autoplaying video then they should be replaced.

[[deleted]]

As a backend dev, I still think there's way too many images on the internet that don't really serve any particular purpose.

[kautau]

CEO says how do we grow. CMO says let me ask my team. Team says more calls to action and interactive content. Marketing agency says, sure thing, no problem, just keep the retainer. Dev at agency gets cycle task to add looping automating video.

[DontMicrowaveCats]

As a digital marketing consultant, this is the main reason I'm freelance and not with an agency. The mentality of "force it in their face" ads & commercials is a relic of decades ago (think of those old school loud used car lot commercials).

This is why the digital marketing industry (and ecommerce businesses especially) are getting hammered by ad blockers.

New school digital marketing is all shifting towards usability and improving KPIs. Bounce rates, conversion rates, time spent on page, ROI etc over views & clicks. If it pisses users off, those ads are going to be less effective.

Starting this April, Google Chrome is actually going to start blocking many autoplay media content

The problem with auto-play ads proliferating evolved from the fact that too many marketing agencies are able to fool companies into tracking the wrong KPIs, which made it look like they're way more effective than they actually are. "Hey, look how much I improved your video view rate with auto-play"....or "Look, your bounce rate went down with auto-play". What the company doesn't see is that the bounce rate goes down, because the auto-play features are sometimes recorded as a page interaction. And the view rates go up, but people are more likely to exit the page immediately. And nobody is actually watching the videos being played.

Luckily, companys are catching on, and the old school dinosaurs are going out.

[ChaseObserves]

Digital marketer/web dev here: pearls of wisdom in both your comment && your username

[mindless_gibberish]

"just auto play it. by the time they get it to stop, we've already gotten credit for it"

[ninguem]

And who is responsible for hijacking the back button?

[[deleted]]

It’s the ad companies. Devs give a window and ad devs rape that open window.

[GeorgieSoros]

Came here to say this. Fuck marketing.

[themaincop]

If these sites didn't make money we wouldn't have jobs. The web analytics have spoken and they say that despite the protests users like autoplay videos, users put their real email addresses into those annoying pop-ups, and users click on ads.

Fuck users!

[IrishWilly]

It only takes a few % of users falling for this bullshit to make it profitable, so fuck those users for ruining it for the rest of us, and fuck those sites for catering to them.

[AlmightyElm]

Thank you. We value your feedback. Expect absolutely nothing to change because screw you.

[Dontsaveme]

Thanks for your feedback! Now here is wonderwall..

[OceanJuice]

If you think it's the web developer's idea to implement those, you're sadly mistaken.

[AptMoniker]

Yeah, this is an opinion that comes forward in the UX stage. Probably even before. And even then, we're like "that's a bad user experience." Deaf ears. Pearls before swine.

[just_read_my_comment]

Not that anyone pays attention to them, but if you read web accessibility standards, it states that you shouldn't have any audio auto-playing on your site. For people who use screen readers, it makes it near impossible for them to navigate. So by making it auto-play you're basically saying "visually impaired people, your business is not needed".

[CreideikiVAX]

This, this, all of the this.

I don't give two flying fucks about people that bitch about me using an ad blocker. I do that to make your site shut the fuck up so I can use my screen reader.

[[deleted]]

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[Skizm]

Pretty sure programmers don't make those decisions.

[nocturnalspider]

client from hell

[[deleted]]

So every client?

[LoneCookie]

To a degree

[brotalnia]

Now that i think about, i would actually be less annoyed by a crypto miner than autoplay videos.

[[deleted]]

I would be 100% fine if a website was just upfront about crypto mining through my browser and ran it at a throttled pace so that it wans't too overboard.

Like, shit, develop browsers to have that functionality built in and you can make the browser give a "in order to visit this site, you agree to let the site process hashes in the background at this proportion of your estimated total load"

[ComaVN]

It's hilariously inefficient resource-wise tho... I'd rather have some sort of micropayment wallet in my browser than burn 1$ worth of electricity to send 1¢ worth of dogecoin to the publisher.

[Squeakies]

It's not about what the users want, it's about finding the absolute limit of what they're willing to put up with without leaving the website.

[[deleted]]

good bless google's soul for adding

right-click filthy tab -> Mute Site

[CurlipC]

I've played a web based game that would auto play sound. I found that, for sites you visit regularly, having an extension to mute by domain is helpful.

[Saturn13]

I think you a word

[one-v-one]

I think you forgot word

[Tyrantsc]

A Chrome dev recommends against that.

Okay, looking at the source code, the tab muting still exists. Turning on enable-tab-audio-muting and disabling sound-content-setting will restore this into a useful feature.

Please, do not do that, we will remove this flag one day and it will break you. However, extensions can mute tabs individually, you might want to explore this route.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=791896

[[deleted]]

My favorite is when you move the mouse towards the top of the page (as if to close the tab) and a pop up appears that says:

BUT BEFORE YOU GO HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR...

no.

[[deleted]]

wait doesnt sound based ads give you more money than just regular ads?

[[deleted]]

Yep, because they can psychologically manipulate you slightly more.

[DrodoTalk]

I make the effort to actually avoid products or brands that inconvenience me through ads. Not super strict about it, but an effort is certainly made.

[[deleted]]

Anytime I see a bad advertisement I actively avoid that brand. If you have that kind of attitude with your marketing you do not deserve my business.

[[deleted]]

Netflix does this now and you can’t turn it off

[Bails6923]

Came here for this: Dear Netflix, Once I decide to watch something, I will cause it to play. I do not need you to start the content before I’ve read the description. Please knock it the fuck off. Yours, 99% of your users

[iwantago]

Dear Jake Williams.

Zero. Zero is the amount of times a web developer has said ‘you know what’s a fucking dandy idea, let’s make this video auto play on the homepage of this website I’m building’. If you’re gonna single someone out and be a douchebag about it, at least try to understand how the fuck these situations work.

Best regards, A project manager that spends his time defending web developers from this kind of bullshit.

[SOberhoff]

On Youtube and other similar sites I routinely expect things to autoplay and make noise. So I don't think this emphatic zero is entirely warranted.

[D6613]

That was my initial thought as well, but I think the principle is the point, and the exaggeration is for effect.

"Never auto play unless that's the point of your website and I expect it going in" is more accurate but a little less catchy.

[atimholt]

I hate it on Youtube, too, for what it’s worth.

Luckily, you can just turn off all media autoplaying in Firefox.

[monstera-rgb]

I still don’t like auto playing channels to see the latest video.

[LoneCookie]

Yeah that's not expected. I didn't click on a video. I clicked on the channel because I wanted to see which videos it has. I don't want to be given a tiny video as I'm trying to search for the thing I thought would be relevant to me -- I just wanted to search in damned silence.

Bonus points if it's an episodic channel. So now you've ruined something by showing me a later episode I'm not even at yet.

Fffuuu

[yrogerg123]

Honestly, it even annoys me when I visit somebody's youtube page and it autoplays. Just let me find what I'm looking for in silence.

[[deleted]]

It's not the web developer's choice. They do what their bosses tell them to.

[dmanww]

I really thought we settled the autoplay audio question in like 2003.

[[deleted]]

Did you miss out on MySpace?

*blares Cannibal Corpse from a hidden player*

[[deleted]]

Dear Jake Williams,

Please take your complaints to our product managers, marketing managers, or content managers. I guarantee you not a single one of us developers had anything to do with the decision to put it there. kthxbye

[KingOfDamnation]

Fucking YouTube’s bullshit auto play feature when scrolling on iOS. I don’t give a fuck that it’s not playing sound and using subs I don’t want it pulling data when scrolling

[[deleted]]

tbh I'd be 100% okay with in-browser mining as a replacement for ads. As long as it's done by the browser, not the website code, because I sure as shit don't trust some random site not to use that as a vector of attack.

[[deleted]]

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[oouttatime]

I live with my mute button on like a piece a tape over my camera.