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PLEASE STOP THE VIDEOS PLAYING AUTOMATICALLY EACH TIME THE PAGE LOADS. IT IS UNBEARABLY IRRITATING.

Users should be able to choose whether or not to play the video.

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      • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Yes! The automatic start of videos AND ad content is inappropriate. Most of the time I'm returning to an article to follow up on comments. Having the same story automatically start blaring over and over and over again just makes me not want to come back at all. The technology is there because you don't do it on all videos or ads. So please show your users a little respect.

      • Haywould Ja BlowmeHaywould Ja Blowme commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Amen. And I don't think you should need my email address, because I'm already signed in to Yahoo! and you HAVE my email address.

      • Mark DonohoeMark Donohoe commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        HATE this and if it doesn't change, my choice if news aggregation site will!

      • LaurieLaurie commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Plus it slows down older machines accessing your portal. And you can measure interest by how many press the play button.

      • Siggy MuellerSiggy Mueller commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Yes, very annoying! Especially for some of us who use older computers/operating systems. In some cases, when opening several browser windows at the same time (i.e. for cross reference) you get more than one video auto-playing. Some of them you can't even turn off, like advertisement clips. And some of them are very loud without a way to adjust the volume on the player.

      • SophiaSophia commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        VERY recently, within the past week, I was able to open a link with a video and NOT have the blasted thing auto-play. This was NOT a Good Morning America video, that's all the guidance I can offer.

        I have found no solution yet to Flash auto-loading and freezing the browser for a few minutes the first time I click on a video link after opening the browser, so these days I go to the front page of YouTube and specifically prime it by letting it lock up there when I anticipate it. On MOST sites, after that I can visit and not have the video auto-play. Not Yahoo.

        Firefox 17, NoScript active and blocking facebook.com twitter.com mixpanel.com, AdBlockPlus active and activity unknown, but I don't see banner ads. (I have no complaint about streamed ads as the price of admission to video when I WANT to see video.)

      • LarryLarry commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Part of this problem is that you often can't navigate until the video ends. A script is preventing navigation. This is cheating by the advertisers.

      • jj commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        I agree! I don´t want unexpected videos. I click on a news item to read the article in silence only to discover that it is a video.

      • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        I am so glad this issue is gaining traction. This is positively the MOST OBNOXIOUS behavior a web site can commit.

      • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        agreed, - super annoying and even very problematic in some situations

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