Yes, this a billion-fold!
Every single newspaper site I peruse uses autoplaying video.
The experience goes like this:
Load up the front page of newspaper site. Select an article of interest and click on its link. Article loads. A video player pops into existence on the lower right hand corner of the page, and the video starts playing.
Most annoying. However it gets more egregious...
The video player floats when you scroll down the page, until you reach the part of the page where it usually resides - and warps over into its little area - until you scroll past - whereupon it pops back up on the lower right hand side of your browser again.
Aaaaaargh!
Just as egregious : after viewing a video you might even have been interested inviewing, another video is automatically loaded onto that same player, 99.9% of the time on some completely unrelated subject.
Y'know, someone, somewhere, woke up one morning and thought "Great idea! Let's do <what is described above>!" - why can't the message that "People really hate autoplaying video" get back to whoever makes the decisions on user experiences, so that they just quit doing the above bullshit?