@rysiek I just close pages that do this, even if I wanted to read the article. If I REALLY want to read it, I'll drop the URL into archive.md so I can read it without all the extraneous BS :)

@rysiek
Nothing goes past my blockers (I usually block scripts by default, it's the only thing that seems to make the web of the 2020s bearable).
But if I saw such a video, I would definitely be pissed, especially if the sound was one.
BTW, even without blockers, I think Firefox has an option to forbid autoplay

@rysiek but autoplay with sound is blocked in any browser by default :blobcatthinkingglare:

@rysiek@mastodon.technology immediately leave the website, possibly remember the name to avoid it in the future and find my news elsewhere

@rysiek

Video takes processing resources & bandwidth. It is unreasonable to expect that the user will always have these available, or that you know better than he does whether he wants to employ them in that way.

@rysiek firefox reader mode

@rysiek

Figure out which set of scripts I need to block to keep this from happening.

@rysiek when a website does this to me :
1- it’s a hint that this website isn’t worth it
2- i block the whole domain and i never go back to one of those website like 01net

@rysiek@mastodon.technology option d: use my ad-blocker to block the element, so the next time i browse to this website, i don't see the video anymore

if i cared slightly more, i'd report the issue to my ad-blocker's support page so it gets blocked for everyone else as well

(though I keep javascript disabled as much as I can, so this issue probably wouldn't happen in the first place)

@rysiek I leave the site and remember to never go there again.

Either don’t be annoying or let me pay for content.

@rysiek For a while (and when I was using desktop systems rather than mobile devices) I'd often find the video distribution network these sites were based on, and blackhole the motherluvin' heck out of those. Since media companies are cheapskate asshats, for a while at least there was a relatively small set of these that was ridiculously effective at killing most of this annoyance.

That said, the practice reveals an utter contempt for their audience and readership.

@rysiek Someone voted for the first option???

To whomever that was, YOU are what is wrong with the internet today. :P

@rysiek "time to hit that "reader mode" icon" sounds in my head

whatever small nuissance. always.

@rysiek @Flarnie It's the worst. I assume it's done to inflate video view stats shown to advertisers. Like many innovations under capitalism, it's a good idea for someone, just not you or me.

@rysiek I dunno, poll results seem inconclusive 😂

@rysiek this post is currently #2 on Hacker News, haha. I would wonder what that’s doing to our traffic, but, we don’t use analytics 🙃

@rysiek I want to know how that works, it's the worst thing ever.

I really wish browsers would come with a way to block <video> elements. As in, literally pretend they have no idea what a <video> is. Back when flash was a thing, you could usually set it to only load when you click the element, with per-domain exceptions.