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Nobody Has Ever Wanted Your Website to Do This (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/rant@lemmy.sdf.org
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If you have a video that autoplays at the top of your article, and I have to scroll past it to read the article, I don't want it to pop out and scroll down along with me. It blocks the top third of the screen. Who even thinks of that? Why would a person in charge of making decisions say "Oh, yeah, neat. I like the way that works, let's not change anything." I don't want any videos to autoplay at all ever for any reason. If I scroll past it, it should autostop.

Fucking web developers.

Edit: Yes, you're right, it's not the fault of web developers. At least, it's mostly not their fault. They still came up with this shit, but it's executives and middle managers who demand it.

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[–] 25 points 1 year ago

Fucking web developers.

No. Fucking middle managers that constantly have to prove their worth by coming up with new ideas to ruin something

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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Dont hate the player. Hate the game. We hate it too.

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    [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    probably their biggest source of revenue is video ads, so they want to push it down your throat

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Lol you think web developers are free to just design whatever ux they randomly dream up

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    If the video doesn't play, or isn't on your screen for at least x seconds, they don't get paid.

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Op, just fetch (1) an archive of the article, and pipe it to most (1)

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    You can block auto play in Firefox and related browsers FYI (dunno about other browsers off the top of my head). I guarantee you that the web devs that made this also hate it, but the higher ups/marketing dept demanded it. Speaking as a person who has been in web dev for a little over a decade, I hate this shit, but all the pushback will do nothing unless you can find a way that would make the company legally liable.

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm on a PC with a 40" TV for a monitor. No idea you phone browsers survive this bullshit.

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