Or add another attribute explictly muting the video by default, and disallow autoplay without it.
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EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 1 year ago
This, and autoplay muted videos in a feed like Twitter or Facebook drive me crazy.
You click unmute but you’ve missed 15-30 seconds of audio, so then you have to restart the video and click again.
Just add a “unmute and restart” button!
PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 1 year ago
Narrrz@kbin.social 1 year ago
better yet, just don't autoplay fucking videos! if I want to watch it, I'll click on it!
dingus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
People that I know don’t understand why I don’t want to use TikTok. It doesn’t bother me that it’s “rotting people’s brains” or that China is spying on us or whatever.
It’s autoplay.
I can’t fucking stand autoplay. The first thing I do when I log into YouTube on a new device is disable autoplay. But legitimately infuriates me and I’m not entirely sure why. All I hear when someone is watching TikTok is nonstop sound and videos autoplaying one after another. The sound often isn’t even relevant to the video and is just there to make annoying loud noise.
If TikTok were more like YouTube in that I could click on the next video whenever I was ready, I might be into it and actually enjoy it. But it’s like someone made a platform dedicated to one of my biggest pet peeves and dialed it up to 11.
creditCrazy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have a feeling that might be a sort of add scam. Like oh look at how much watch time all the videos on this site gets. Imagine the interactions that your ad will get if you pay me to roll your ad on my platform.