Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Autoplaying videos on websites
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2013–2023), in 6 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Video starts playing on the page without being chosenUnreviewed
20132026- A video starts playing automatically on the page without the reader choosing it2023-08-07
- Autoplaying videos freeze the app briefly as they start and force users to keep scrolling2019-02-04
- Autoplaying videos max out CPU, making the page and typing lag badly2018-05-30
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 6 complaints
- A video starts playing automatically on the page without the reader choosing it2023-08-07
- Autoplaying videos freeze the app briefly as they start and force users to keep scrolling2019-02-04
- Autoplaying videos max out CPU, making the page and typing lag badly2018-05-30
- No way to override autoplay at device, user, or app level2016-11-01
- Autoplaying video blares audio and is hard to turn off on phones2016-07-12
- Videos start playing automatically on page load, making sound come from unexpected tabs2013-07-22