I tracked my kid with Apple's Airtags to test its privacy features

Re:I tracked my kid with Apple's Airtags to test its privacy... by marcus_holmes on Monday May 10, 2021 @08:46AM (#27105372)

Why does any site believe that playing video at me without giving me a chance to consent to it or an obvious "stop doing this" button is a good idea?

How does anyone come to the conclusion that this will increase their ad revenue/interaction/readability/whatever metric they want to measure?

I'm fascinated by what they think will be their reader's reaction to this. Did they do any research? If so, who did they pick as subjects? Does anyone like having a website play video automatically?

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Re:I tracked my kid with Apple's Airtags to test its privacy... by mattmoose21 on Monday May 10, 2021 @08:53AM (#27105443)

Firefox has a feature where you can block audio/audio&video from autoplaying, works really well.

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Re:I tracked my kid with Apple's Airtags to test its privacy... by sodality2 on Monday May 10, 2021 @08:58AM (#27105490)

That's enabled by default, on all major browsers, I'm fairly certain. Unless you click or have autoplayed in the past from that site it's a policy to not allow autoplaying video/audio unless the video is muted (<video> tag specifically)

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Re:I tracked my kid with Apple's Airtags to test its privacy... by marcus_holmes on Monday May 10, 2021 @10:15AM (#27106175)

As far as I'm aware I've never allowed anything to autoplay video. If a site has video on it then I immediately try to mute/stop it (hence my frustration with this site where there doesn't appear to be any way of stopping the video. I ended up closing the tab).

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Re:I tracked my kid with Apple's Airtags to test its privacy... by sodality2 on Monday May 10, 2021 @10:23AM (#27106252)

I'd suspect you clicked on something and they have `onclick=play()` or something.

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