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Another Complaint About Auto-Play News Videos

By Jeralyn, Section Colorado News
Posted on Thu Jul 24, 2014 at 01:48:53 PM EST
Tags: auto-play videos (all tags)
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It is getting harder to find news sources on just about any topic that don't have intrusive, time-wasting auto-play videos. Lately, more and more major news sites have them. I refuse to link to them, and it takes a ridiculously long amount of time to click through several sources on any topic hoping to find one without a video and popup ads and surveys.

Here's a post I wrote a year ago on how to disable them. But it's still not an ideal solution.

I'd like to start a list of major sites that have the auto-play videos so readers know to avoid clicking on them when they see them elsewhere. Feel feel to name the offending media sites in comments (no links please, I want to avoid giving them traffic.)

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    I don't know all the reasons (5.00 / 3) (#15)
    by NYShooter on Fri Jul 25, 2014 at 03:01:01 PM EST
    why clicking onto a website these days has gotten so annoying, and, sometimes, impossible. I hear some of the more tech-savvy folks here talking about the remedies, fixes, go-arounds they unearthed in order to make a site readable/viewable. Magster says, if he wants to see this or that, he uses Firefox, but, if he wants to see that or this, he uses chrome. And, then, of course there's "Flash," "Auto Play," "Always ask," Never Ask," but, always, "Eff You."

    One by one, all the sites are getting impossible to enjoy. How much more crap can they cram onto a home page until it blows up your computer?

    I often wonder, does anybody of authority even ever click onto their own sites?

    I truly doubt it, cause, if they did, they'd realize how aggravating it is, and, heads would roll.

    Oh, well, just a Friday rant, and, a reminder of why I hate Silicon Valley, and all its slimy inhabitants.

    Not Complex (none / 0) (#16)
    by squeaky on Fri Jul 25, 2014 at 03:17:08 PM EST
    A lot less complex than taking apart your gun and cleaning it.

    A little like buying sunglasses or sunscreen and applying it, no more complex.

    You go into your preferences and set the flash player so that it does not automatically turn on.

    It asks you, when a site has an automatic video, and you can say no.

    the results:

    No auto video.

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    whooosh... (none / 0) (#19)
    by sj on Fri Jul 25, 2014 at 06:26:21 PM EST


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    Does anyone know how to disable those (none / 0) (#1)
    by Angel on Thu Jul 24, 2014 at 01:56:07 PM EST
    pesky, annoying AdChoices videos that show up on some news websites?

    AdBlock? (none / 0) (#3)
    by squeaky on Thu Jul 24, 2014 at 02:26:25 PM EST
    AdBlock works well.  

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    Google Search (none / 0) (#2)
    by squeaky on Thu Jul 24, 2014 at 02:25:22 PM EST
    Go