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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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  • Soni Ortiz commented  ·   ·  Report

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  • Kenneth Filloon commented  ·   ·  Report

    Voted number 2 problem, still they do nothing to fix this nasty news site. what a !ucking joke.

  • ott peng commented  ·   ·  Report

    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.

  • Kymberleigh Richards commented  ·   ·  Report

    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.

  • Ray S commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is a major problem!

  • Doc Adviser commented  ·   ·  Report

    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.

  • Robert R commented  ·   ·  Report

    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!

  • Beckfield commented  ·   ·  Report

    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?

  • ott peng commented  ·   ·  Report

    Autoplay is invasive. If I want to watch a video, I am perfectly capable of clicking on it.

  • Gene Killingbeck commented  ·   ·  Report

    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.

  • Chris Fransen commented  ·   ·  Report

    What the F is wrong with you? Autoplaying video of someone abusing a dog on nannycam....what makes you think anyone wants to scroll through and see that? I didn't click the story and I certainly didn't start playing the video.....if you need me I'll be a Google!

  • Beckfield commented  ·   ·  Report

    FOUR F***ING YEARS OF "GATHERING FEEDBACK?!?"

    FIX IT!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Stop this. I have largely stop browsing Yahoo News because I don't k now when my computer will unexpectedly start screaching out music or people talking.

  • bite me commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am reading an article and a video starts spoon feeding the same stuff as the article. Its very annoying, sometime plays or 4 videos and wastes end user bandwidth. It might be time to find another news source if this isn't corrected. I have already sent the same complaint to the FCC. At one-time they had banned the auto playing of videos.

  • Mark Ayres commented  ·   ·  Report

    Been getting autoplay videos again, despite turning off every setting in Firefox. EVERYBODY $^%$#@ HATES AUTOPLAY!!!

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