Stop autoplaying videos on the Yahoo News home page
I see a lot of complaints about videos autoplaying when news articles are opened. That's annoying because it is unnessarily chewing up bandwidth. Recently when I first go to the Yahoo news home page, a video autoplays on the upper right side of the screen. I find this extremely annoying. I've used Yahoo News as my primary online news source for at least 12 years and now I think I need to look at less intrusive alternatives.
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Sara Wolfgang
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When I am trying to READ an article, even though I have closed the video ONCE, you repeatedly make that stupid thing pop up AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN as I scroll down through the article. You know, if I closed the stupid video up once, that means that I DO NOT WANT TO WATCH THE STUPID VIDEO, so stop making it pop up repeatedly. It is annoying as BLANK!
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Sara Wolfgang
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If someone clicks on the CLOSE button on a video once, that means they probably would rather READ the article rather than watch the video. WHY are you cyber raping us? If we said NO once, we probably meant it which means we don't want to. Can't you take no for an answer? I just won't read you news any more.
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Sara Wolfgang
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Why does your news site repeatedly force the reappearance of a video, as I scroll down to read the article, that I did not want to watch the first time, or the 2nd, or the 3rd, or the 4th.............. I finally just decided to forego reading the article and closed your news page.
Is that the type of engagement for which you are seeking???
If we close the video once as we scroll down to READ the article, don't force it to pop up again. we closed it because WE ARE NOT INTERESTED IN WATCHING THE VIDEO!!!
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Tony Drolson
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How about leaving the video off and let people turn it on so they don't have to start to over after they turn the sound on because they have missed half of it already
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Donald Decann
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STOP the absolutely annoying videos that popup on the lower right hand of the screen EVERY time I scroll up or down on the page!
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sky ler
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I have never seen, in a clear decade, a popup video (appearing as an insert on the lower right page of many yahoo news pages after you scroll down from the giant top video) that does not stay closed once closed. The X means go away, and do not ever come back again. It is poor practice to bully your users by reopening a closed video with onmousescroll.
Also, on your finance pages, due to that pointless ticker you added, the unrelenting videos cover half the written article. Both provide an unpleasant user experience, and more often than not lead to me closing the page prematurely just to escape the bully video.
Perhaps bring back the website yahoo video? But don't cover the article or bully us, please. I never go to read and end up watching a video... never.
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Soni Ortiz
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To all Trump supporters who should know better by now:
What would a man give in exchange for his soul? What would it profit him to gain the world and lose his only soul?
And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. Jn 10:4,5 KJV
With love and prayers I say, here's your chance to get it right and if you don't know right from wrong then HOW GREAT IS YOUR DARKNESS! -
Kenneth Filloon
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Voted number 2 problem, still they do nothing to fix this nasty news site. what a !ucking joke.
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Pam
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Clearly, Yahoo doesn't care about those of us who have limited bandwidth and limited data allowances. The only way to not eat up unwanted time, is to avoid Yahoo, altogether.
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joel salinas
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Stop having videos or audio autoplay
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Kymberleigh Richards
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I have seen this complaint posted over and over and over, going back at least six years. All you ever do is close off comments, ignore the problem, and wait for the next complaint.
I have a slow connection and these videos bring my system to a crawl. Not fixing this is a guaranteed way to drive people away from Yahoo.
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Ray S
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This is a major problem!
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SANDRA D FLYNN
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Impeach biden he's the one in charge now
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Doc Adviser
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Stop auto play video. Let the viewers decide what to watch.
Many videos are not worth watching.
Viewers have to constantly press the pause button as they scroll down the news articles. This is irritating.
Auto play chews a lot of data bundles especially for those on pay-as-you-go contracts. -
SANDRA D FLYNN
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go here to trash yahoo
https://answers.yahoo.com/dir/index?sid=396545439 -
Robert R
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I agree it should stop. Recently I clicked on articles where the page loaded several different articles and videos were playing sound and all. A cacophony of noise! I had to scroll down the page for what like seemed forever to stop the things from playing. Please Yahoo, do something about this!
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Beckfield
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Autoplaying of videos is stupidly designed anyway. When the video for the currently-viewed article finishes, it autoplays another video completely unrelated to the current story. Maybe Yahoo! programmers are too stupid to fix this.
And I see they took away the user preference to stop autoplay, since it wasn't working. Were they too stupid to figure out how to do it? -
Pam
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Autoplay is invasive. If I want to watch a video, I am perfectly capable of clicking on it.
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tyr jorgennson
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Stop having videos or audio autoplay
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Gene Killingbeck
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First of all, stop the "autoplay" on articles with video. Most times we'd rather read the article rather than having to suffer listening to a "talking head" droning endlessly. If we want to see the video, we'll start t ourselves.
Also frequently when "autostart" engages and we pause the video, a moment later the news page resets to the top of the page and we have to scroll back down to find the article AGAIN. INCREDIBLY ANNOYING.