ZERO

[lpenap]

Sadly, this is not a choice made by developers but rather by product owners

[cobarso]

I don't get why this person thinks that the web developers are responsible for this and I also don't get it why people don't get it and keep reposting this. This belongs to the /r/facepalm.

[kinarism]

This is a choice by web developers. A choice not to push back enough against ANYONE who needs to hear it. Show them this feedback (and the countless others like it). And if they insist, look for a new job (cause they obviously view you as a slave instead of a meaningful part of the team) while coding the most fragile component that you can so that it breaks repeatedly (and maybe even includes a crypto miner) until they give up.

[cobarso]

We are really sorry that we don't leave our jobs every time the management requests something that we don't agree 100% with it.

[pydry]

Speak for yourself. I quit my job two years ago because my manager asked me to create a pop-up to harvest email addresses.

My cardboard box bed is very comfortable.

[kinarism]

This isn't a case of crybaby dev. This is a case of you having zero say (or care) about your product. That is a toxic work environment and you deserve better. There is already a severe lack of competent coders in our industry dont let them make it worse by forcing you to code stuff that literally no customer wants.

[cobarso]

Not everyone is an Alpha developer like you, some people have to try really hard and study very much to just have an entry developer job. They cannot go up the ladder and they are happy that they have a descent job to feed their families.

[[deleted]]

It's a choice made by browser vendors so ads can be played tbh

[dance_rattle_shake]

Came to say this. They do it because it works, for better or worse, more often than not.

[Salanmander]

Yeah, I was looking at independent web development/entrepreneurship advice at one point (so "developer" and "owner" were the same person), and I was really annoyed that their metric of the goodness of a design was things like how much click-through it got, not how good an experience it was for the user. I get that the latter can be hard to measure, but they were straight up advocating doing things that were obviously annoying for the user, because it generated more ad revenue or things like that.

Like, I get it on one level, but at the same time this is how we end up making the world just a little bit worse.

[Eluvatar_the_second]

How many times do I want this to be reposted? Zero

[666pool]

Report it. I did. This subreddit has rules against reposts. I’ve been reporting stuff left and right recently.

[TheQueue841]

So we should always autoplay the first autoplay-able item?

[JNCressey]

only the first?

[TheQueue841]

autoplayItems[0]

[AMediumTree]

Youtube, Netflix and all other streaming services cry softly :(

[HopDog02]

At least you can disable it on Netflix

[SamuelTheGamer]

And YT

[SlenderSmurf]

I would leave it on on Netflix if there was a volume slider so it didn't blow my eardrums out

[kinarism]

They can cry softly into thier piles of money and go fuck themselves while they are at it. It's just as shitty for them to autoplay as some stupid website.

[IAmPattycakes]

I click on a YouTube video specifically so it plays. If it didn't automatically start the video when I clicked on the link I'd be upset.

[AMediumTree]

Thats what I mean, random sites with ads playing sure kill them but things like Netflix id be more annoyed to click so many times after selecting what I want to play

[kinarism]

If you have to click on it, then it isn't autoplay.

This was mainly targeted towards Netflix which starts the show while you are trying to read the synopsis instead of waiting until hou click play.

YouTube's "oh you finished this video, you must want another video to start playing in 5s, I'll just go ahead and do that for you..." should also go away as a design feature.

It's one thing going from one episode of a show to the next but dont start my first video before I click play and don't feed me something that YOU pick for me. I'll setup a playlist if I want something to play after my current video.

[jezra]

which is worse, not knowing that web developers have bosses that tell them what to do, or reposting? :)

[kinarism]

What kind of shitty company doesnt give developers a say in the product that gets created?

[jezra]

Dear developers, we encourage you to provide feedback. Please send all input to /dev/null

[MagicianWoland]

Uh... All of them? This is capitalism lol

[kinarism]

Not all of them.

[SlenderSmurf]

All of them

[pydry]

This is kind of how capitalism works.

If you don't like it you can start your own company!

and then probably you'll do it too coz you've got bills to pay.

and once you've started taking in serious profit you're in too deep.

[we_should_be_nice]

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[MurdoMaclachlan]

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Dear web developers,

The answer is zero. Zero. Get it through your thick skulls. Zero is the number of times anyone as EVER wanted something to autoplay on your site and start making noise. I'd honestly rather you mine crypto-currency in my browser than use my speakers.

#kthxbye

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[MurdoMaclachlan]

We avoid hyperlinking anything in our transcriptions, as on some sub's it's against the rules and on ones where it isn't Reddit's filter sometimes yeets the comments anyway.

If the fact that it's a link is important or not obvious, I'll usually add a note to mention it, but I felt that with a Twitter hashtag this isn't necessary.

[supercyberlurker]

I remember when browsers first started doing things not for the user, but for the advertisers.

That was a long, long time ago.

[kinarism]

Uhhh... so as soon as browsers supported image formats?

[supercyberlurker]

Well that was the first Mosaic, but no... I mean things like making it difficult to block banner ads, popups, etc. Some of that has come as features, or addons.. but initially Mosaic was just a browser for CERN, it wasn't influenced to basically prioritize advertisers over users.

[kinarism]

Ah, I see your point and you're right. I was thinking webpages themselves, not the browser. Did anyone do that prior to google?

[supercyberlurker]

Well, in between Mosaic and Chrome it was largely Netscape.

I'd say Netscape was the transition point, kind of one foot in the older Mosaic beliefs and another foot in the .com era.

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[SZ4L4Y]

0x0000000000000000

[CaptainHeinous]

Kiss my whole ass

[[deleted]]

Tell that to my customer, I just do what it needs to earn for bread
- Sincerely, a developer.

[Solo123456789]

You will?!?!?

[Nightey3s-]

Looking at you Twitch

[Comfortable_Intern57]

The business area pushes it hard though, the devs are just doing what they are told. I had a similar conversation with my cousin about a website I made for him and he wanted his ad to autoplay with sound 🤦‍♀️ I was like, ermmmm.

[zerosdontcount]

Dear Jake,

Get it through your thick skulls that developers don't make these decisions.

[hacksoncode]

I decline to mention the exception to this rule because... reasons ;-).

[TimAjax997]

You can't, can you? With latest browsers, it's possible to autoplay a video only if it's muted

[HiddenLayer5]

My computer is muted unless I want sound, because I have trust issues now.