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... until clicking the play button.

And when people browse Reddit, do you think they want to individually press play an extra time on each and every video that they look at? Of course they don’t!

So everyone ITT saying that “nobody wants automatically playing videos”. Actually yeah, we do, and there are many, and I mean MANY of us.

Well, I'm the only person I know personally that spends time browsing reddit on his phones (because on a PC videos do not autoplay), and I've installed a different client mostly because it won't autoplay anything.

But I do have a lot of friends that spend time browsing facebook, and not a single one likes autoplaying videos, either wanted or unwanted ones.

Videos do not get into your screen at the same exact time you focus your attention on them. On the occasion that you'll want to watch the video, autoplaying just forces you to see a lot of out of context spoilers and video endings.

Whitelist Reddit then. Or turn on autoplay for all websites.

Or maybe we can take the current approach and leave a sensible default for the people who aren't savvy enough? And people like you and I can just toggle the option?

Do the majority really want autoplay? Facebook forced it on people and made it hard to find the disable option.

On pages that I go to specifically to play a media file, yes. Maybe a reasonable middle ground would be that each page can auto-play a single video element?

There are probably uses that I'm not thinking of (or don't partake in) where this would still be a problem for people.

or if it allows to whitelist those domains.

Or until the user switches to alternate browser like I will if Firefox doesn't autoplay soundless animations.

It would take a lot more than that for me to switch from Firefox.

ok bye

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments so we don't have to ban you again? Your substantive posts are just fine.

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