Dear Web Developers,
I say this on behalf of most of the people(I think) that nobody at any want of life wants something to play automatically on a website. Seriously, I would rather you use my browser to mine cryptocurrencies than use my speakers.

People STILL do that? Oh boy

Luckily most browsers disable autoplay nowadays.

But I assume, some stupid frontend guy right now tries to find his way around that.

*cough*LinkedIn*cough*

Auto play bad.
I hate it. I won't subject my users to it.

@ddephor i bet that client thinks that is a great idea to do and demands it like a spoiled child

@possum Yeah just recently my college web development team decided to add a robotic voice that reads the description automatically when the page loads.

Yeah, I seriously doubt any web dev does that voluntarily. Product managers and directors and VPs make nonsense like that happen.

@ddephor There should be a book titled 'Ethics of Web Development'

Most of the time it's not us but the business requirements.

Louder for the people in the back!

*Instant exit*

We do this to feel like we have a semblance of control in our lives.

j/k I hate this shit too.

Well, YouTube videos do autoplay. I think it would be annoying to have that extra click once you are on the right page.

But otherwise, I totally agree and hope that there is still some special place reserved in hell for these developers

@StopMotionCuber Don't hate the player, hate the game.

@zeus0789 https://github.com/ascott1/...

It is not the devs,it is the management that wants money and SEO shits

@taigrr Wow, this is great!

@Nanos I don't mean the "autoplay" feature but the fact, that a video starts playing as soon as you click the link, you do not need to make an additional click to make the video start playing

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This happens way too often on far too many sites. I'm still looking for a consistent solution to this cruel fuckery. The in-browser blocking doesn't do shit. Videos still pop up all over the web and still autlplay, even with manual blocks.

I'm a web dev myself, and am still extremely irritated by it. Honestly, anyone who deliberately creates asshole designs like this will have a special place in hell reserved for them.

@vardh Awesome

@vardh Awesome