Asklemmy

No. No. No. Do not show me a video. I don't think anybody wants that, no.

I hate it when more when I'm on my mobile and have to reserve precious data

Don’t forget the “feature” where the video chases you around the page to force you to watch it. “You scrolled away, but we just know you really want to watch video of our Action News! team reporting on a completely unrelated topic!

While you’re 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!

Librewolf, disabled by default.

We all do.

Autoplay is great for pages that you go to specifically to watch videos. It's a cancer everywhere else.

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.

Nope, auto play is disabled here too

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.

None of me do.

Have autoplay disabled

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.

Nothing ever auto plays on my devices. uBlock Origin & Firefox allow me to decide how my experience plays (ba-dum-tiss) out.

I never watch them and block them if I ever see any

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.

Autoplayed videos are the devil. If an add autoplays i report it.

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?

Never, they're the Internet equivalent of those people who listen to their music in public without headphones.

There are auto playing videos on websites?

If the video cannot be closed or easily adblocked I leave the website.

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.

I try to watch all of them. They are always super informative and entertaining. They always are about something I am interested in. They are always super short and never get in the way of what I am trying to read or actually view. I particularly like how they sometimes play more than one video so it can be a two for one!! Thanks internet ad gods!! /s

I have all that shit autoblocked.

Never. You can block that in Firefox by default.