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Never. You can block that in Firefox by default.
Not me. In fact if it isn't blocked and I can't easily get rid of it, I'll bail on the site altogether.
Honestly don't understand what the benefit to anybody is. If I want to watch it, I will, if I don't, I won't. They're just making the overall experience worse.
I assume it's some bonehead manager that thinks it looks cool or will increase engagement though.
Exactly. If a site tries to shove things down my throat so much that it prevents me from accessing the part that I want to access, fuck em. I close the tab.
I find it even more puzzling as surely it has to be a decent increase in server demand to constantly be streaming video. How can that be worth it??
Look boss we have 'engagement' up 700% now! Everyone looks at the video!! Well, at least 5 to 15 seconds it seems but not more hmm gotta fix that too now...
There's a Wikipedia page about this phenomenon where advertisers started to prefer video in 2015.
Explains exactly what you're seeing.
Also seems like Facebook potentially played a part in their push, driven by faulty data. That's crazy.
Not me, and most people here won't. You're asking the wrong demographic.
My mother for example, she watches everything on any website she visits, and she doesn't always tap video popups away since she knows she sometimes gets accidentally redirected elsewhere. My father and I have offered her adblockers many times, but she always strongly rejects it. She doesn't want anyone meddling with her phone and she finds adblockers annoying because, very occasionally, they will block content she actually wants to watch and no, she doesn't remember how to allow permissions for exceptions in such cases.
I bet she's like the majority of people out there. Most don't mind the ads and some even go for the bait.
Yep, we all know they're horrible UI/UX, but OP is asking a demographic who knows what UI/UX even means. Most people see nothing wrong with the modern internet, and view ads and unskippable videos as the norm, with no alternative, and happily consume it all.
This is my wife. I have a network adblocker and had to whitelist google ads because she wanted to see the pictures of products when searching even though theyβre google ads and she knows it. Doesnβt matter, she actually likes them. Gahhhhhhh.
Oh my that sounds so frustrating hah!
Nothing ever auto plays on my devices. uBlock Origin & Firefox allow me to decide how my experience plays (ba-dum-tiss) out.
Nope, auto play is disabled here too
None of me do.
I have all that shit autoblocked.
If the video cannot be closed or easily adblocked I leave the website.
Never, they're the Internet equivalent of those people who listen to their music in public without headphones.
Donβt forget the βfeatureβ where the video chases you around the page to force you to watch it. βYou scrolled away, but we just know you really want to watch video of our Action News! team reporting on a completely unrelated topic!
While youβre here, do please enjoy a popup that completely blocks access to the page. We felt it necessary to keep the annoying pop-up despite the fact that we have no advertising to put in it. Just the name of our website. Yay us!
There are auto playing videos on websites?
American news website
This is actually what o truly do not understand about marketing, how are they so disconnected as to think that folks are actually watching and paying attention to that shit. Are they just delusional?
Autoplayed videos are the devil. If an add autoplays i report it.
I never watch them and block them if I ever see any
Autoplay is great for pages that you go to specifically to watch videos. It's a cancer everywhere else.
I do, and then I forgot why I was on that website to begin with. Takes me forever to get my bearings back. I hate it.
I see people saying that ublock can get rid of those. If someone can share how, that would be awesome. My ublock only blocks ads.
Right click on the video under ublock select block element. A popup will show up in the bottom right where you can fine tune. If the video has a custom right click menu just do it anywhere else and in the fine tune options click select element then the video. Also make sure you use uBlock Origin.
They say that spam only ever exists because its a social problem, not a technical one. Spam works, there are people who believe the Nigerian princes are going to give them money.
Have autoplay disabled
Librewolf, disabled by default.
I hate it when more when I'm on my mobile and have to reserve precious data
No. No. No. Do not show me a video. I don't think anybody wants that, no.
When you try to read some Warhammer 40k lore and those things get in the way, it's hard not to want to send an Exterminatus to those who created them.
We all do.