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[–] Anti-Stupid 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Videos on Voat do not play until you click them. If you do not like videos so much, then don't fucking click them.

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[–] AAngel 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

My privacy browser (Brave) must do something, cause I never even see any videos to click on....

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[–] GoBackToReddit 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

It's another drop in the bucket to why I prefer using archives. No autoplay bullshit there.

You can block the element with ublock origin but it's per page.. so the next time you go there to read something the video will be there again.

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[–] Hand_of_Node ago 

The archive sites have an error that prevents them from loading at all. I use uMatrix and unblock various elements when I want to see something like a video. Usually, most of the crap the page tries to load is unnecessary.

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[–] GoBackToReddit ago 

The archive sites have an error that prevents them from loading at all.

I rarely have an issue with archive.today and prefer it over wayback. Content was allegedly removed from wayback, wayback when pizzagate got smashed on and they lost a lot of shit. Archive.today also has a download option to save to disk.

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[–] Vhaine 4 points -1 points (+3|-4) ago 

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[–] 15634107? 0 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago 

News sites only need to deliver text and maybe images. Just block everything except for HTML and you'll save yourself a ton of headache.

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[–] AAngel 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

That sounds great. Any chance you have time to hint at us lesser computer mortals at how to do that? I'm on a mac...

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[–] rejectedfromreddit 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Check out the noscript plugin for Firefox and Chrome

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[–] 15645905? ago 

And provide links to the sources for their often bullshit claims.

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[–] Dean_Wilhelm_Hawkins 0 points 30 points (+30|-0) ago 

The best ones play multiple videos all at once so you cant understand anything.

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[–] whatisbestinlife 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

the worst ones offer immediate single click download

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[–] soliddrink 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

would be great, except I don't feel like doing that every time I go to a new news page. I just would love a ublock origin list only for videos so I don't have to do this task

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[–] acheron2012 0 points 20 points (+20|-0) ago 

IMO the worst are videos playing without sound that are difficult/impossible to stop. They just sit there burning up data.

THIS is what a pointless waste of finite resources looks like.

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[–] totes_magotes [S] 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

Bandwidth really isn't finite - the hardware for that has a limited lifespan regardless of whether it's used or how much it's used. It's just a way for companies to try to milk you for more money. You already pay far more for your internet than you should.

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[–] Humansized 0 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago 

Well finite for consumers. Especially mobile users.

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[–] peacegnome 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

i'm on projectFi and each MB costs me $0.01, so a 100MB video just cost me $1. Auto-playing videos, or auto-buffering video costs a lot.

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[–] blumen4alles ago 

and CPU resources on older machines!

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[–] fusir 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago  (edited ago)

It is ok to autoplay videos on a video website. That is it.

For example if you click on a suggested video on a side panel you are going to want it to play. You illustrated your intent that you want that video to play. But in case someone opens multiple videos in multiple tabs to watch something later it should only play once focus is on that tab.

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[–] totes_magotes [S] 1 point 3 points (+4|-1) ago 

No it’s not. Screen readers get blasted over

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[–] fusir 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Another thing that is good is good videography. People should be able to notice your video playing and stop it before it gets loud and annoying.

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