[Welsh boy]

Sorry road.cc, those annoying auto play videos are just too much. Goodbye. 

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[dave atkinson]

you don’t see them because

you don’t see them because you’re supporting the site by being a subscriber

[Sriracha]

Could just be A/B testing and
Could just be A/B testing and you’re the lucky ones. I get the wretched videos.

They don’t actually autoplay (because the auto-play toggle in the browser settings prevents that). It’s worse than that; as you scroll beyond them they detach from the page and float so that they remain at the top of the screen, obscuring whatever you’re now trying to read. It’s almost like the web designer has deliberately set out to piss you off.

In fact I can see no other purpose. The really obnoxious twist is that the cancel button does not materialise until after the video content has downloaded. So whether you’re going to watch it or not, you’ve paid for it in your mobile data. TBH, if you were going to watch the video, you’d have done so before attempting to scroll past it.

[HoldingOn]

I don’t have an ad blocker,
I don’t have an ad blocker, but do subscribe and I don’t see any adverts anymore. Certainly don’t have any autoplay videos.

[Hirsute]

I know people have complained
I know people have complained before.
Not sure if being a subscriber or having an ad block prevents it.

[mark1a]

What auto-play videos? I don

What auto-play videos? I don’t see any. 

[Llewelyn77]

Another welshman here, a gog,
Another welshman here, a gog, they annoy me too. Don’t they realise the auto play videos are having the opposite effect.

[Hirsute]

https://www.groovypost.com

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/disable-autoplay-videos-on-sites-in-google-chrome/

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-autoplay

https://www.alphr.com/stop-autoplay-videos-microsoft-edge/

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