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Re:Pausing “Instagram Kids” and building parental supervisio... by TeMPOraL on Monday September 27, 2021 @02:23PM (#28674159)
Sorta, kinda. Except it tends to turn itself back on at random. Except there IIRC are two auto-plays on YouTube: one for normal videos, one for playlists - and YouTube's search has a nasty habit of returning results that happen to be smack in the middle of some random playlist.

And speaking of YouTube, the other annoyance is the extremely idiotic anti-feature of pausing the playback and displaying "Are you still watching?" popup after you go a couple of minutes without moving your mouse or tapping on the screen. No YouTube, I'm not watching, I'm only listening on my wireless headset. But you already know that. What you don't know is that I'm in the middle of some household cleaning and my hands are covered with caustic chemicals, so I frikkin do not appreciate having to press a stupid button you introduced to get more "engagement".

Re:Pausing “Instagram Kids” and building parental supervisio... by a1369209993 on Monday September 27, 2021 @03:49PM (#28675203)
To be fair, you can disable autoplay by using youtube-dl[0], and it's (effectively) physically incapable of turning itself back on. Also fixes "Are you still watching?" and other engagement 'features'^Wdefects.

0: http://youtube-dl.org/