Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web
by cobbzilla on Thursday November 02, 2017 @01:15PM
(#15612278)
In Firefox, in `about:config` you can set `media.autoplay.enabled` to false to permanently disable auto-play video everywhere. I love it. Now videos only play when I press play. A slight annoyance when watching netflix/etc, but well worth the price everywhere else. If I could whitelist a set of domains to allow autoplay it would be perfect.
Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web
by duxup on Thursday November 02, 2017 @01:22PM
(#15612337)
Thank you. I hear chrome is going to or maybe has and is going to make a similar option more visible.
I agree, having to hit play is a small price to pay.
Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web
by tarp on Friday November 03, 2017 @02:05AM
(#15616989)
chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy
Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web
by megaman22 on Thursday November 02, 2017 @01:57PM
(#15612633)
I'm convinced nobody at ESPN has tried to use their website in a long time. I remember it not being a dumpster fire of UX once, but that was like 10 years ago.
Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web
by adrianratnapala on Thursday November 02, 2017 @09:41PM
(#15616083)
The only ESPN property I have an interest in is CricInfo, which has been a UX disaster ever since it became ESPNCricInfo.
But it has been an ever-evolving disaster, always finding ways to get worse.
The video almost always is unrelated (different team, different story) to what I'm already well into reading. This is annoying 100% of the time. It's never useful to me.
Even worse. Some stories will be just a few words and a video. So I go to a site, read, play video.... and that same site's autoplay video will pop up and play ON TOP OF THEIR OWN CONTENT. I don't even know what to think about that, what could they possibly feel they're accomplishing?
Do they visit their own site? Do they feel like shotgunning content at me and having me fight to close different windows is a good thing?