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Remove the autoplay option for videos posted
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I would like to be able to remove the autoplay option from a video, even if the original poster included it.
Full description of the ideaIn reading my friends page several times people have placed videos in communities that used the autoplay option with the
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In my opinion, any kind of non-user-initiated sound on websites is icky.
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Personally, I dislike embedded videos, and much prefer a link to the YouTube page, with whatever context the original poster has chosen to include. But so many of my flisties post embedded that I've largely sucked that objection up.
And auto-play is definitely a Very Bad Thing.
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I didn't even know autoplay was allowed. If it is, I fully support its removal: autoplay doesn't make sense in a context where's it's entirely plausible you either aren't looking at the video or might have multiple videos on the page.
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Plus it creates performance problems when, say, re-opening a tabbed browser which has several tabs stored which happen to contain embedded video. Part of the perf problem is just due to the video being embedded at all (which causes plugins to be invoked), but with autoplay there's additional networking and CPU load from trying to stream and play the videos. Result: The whole machine gums up until enough of those tasks have finished to allow the UI to start responding again, and only *then* can you succesfully hit the pause or stop buttons on all those videos you didn't want playing in the first place! =:o\
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