Re:Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted?
by LoganDark on Monday April 06, 2026 @09:39AM
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I'm not talking about pausing the video after it starts playing. I'm talking about a global setting to prevent videos from playing before you manually unpause them. Safari has such a setting, for instance.
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Re:Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted?
by loloquwowndueo on Monday April 06, 2026 @11:45AM
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Exactly what “I have to go out of my way to override” covers, from my comment.
Re:Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted?
by LoganDark on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @09:27AM
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If you don't configure your software when you first start using it, I don't know what to tell you. This shouldn't be "out of your way". You should have set this when you first started using your browser. If you didn't for whatever reason, don't be surprised when autoplaying videos exist.
Re:Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted?
by loloquwowndueo on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @10:56AM
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Dunno man, NOBODY likes auto playing videos, yet creators keep using them for reasons unknown. This is starting to sound a lot like victim blaming. Auto playing videos should not exist, period. End of story.