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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Juanito Hunter
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This is particularly annoying when I am listening to music streamed from WRR, my favorite radio station.
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Anonymous
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Yahoo, just stop doing all autoplay whether it's ads or other content. If I want to see the video, I will click on it. It's so annoying when I'm trying to read the article (which is what I prefer) and the video starts to play. Even worse, when it goes straight from that video to another video on some other completely unrelated story that I'm not interested in. Just stop it.
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Anonymous
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Thanks for your feedback. Could you let us know which ads you were seeing?
Best Regards,
Yahoo Product SupportYes I can let you know which adds it is...... All of them
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bub
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Oh please do! If I need something, I will shop for it. Pretty picture at/below the 80 IQ level totally turn me off!
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Anonymous
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Hate the adds they continue while selected is running very
when I get time I will consider changing -
Anonymous
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I agree. You can't stop them and I have to mute my computer, wait for the ad and then proceed to video I actually am interested in.
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Anonymous
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There is a free Ad-block you can get. I've got it and I don't get any kind of adds at all. I had the same issue and someone told me about Ad-block. Google it and download it. It's free.
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Sherri
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I understand that ads are part of the process- however to disable the controls for sound, and 'play' is really irritating. I don't want to hear them, even though I know I must see them. This situation has caused me to not visit the page and will soon cause me to leave the site altogether.
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Anonymous
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stop the **** adds,it's very annoying.
It is not even possible to turn the sound of.
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Anonymous
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Bring back classic , Please Yes the videos autoplaying is very annoying
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Anonymous
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Do Like me don't use the site. No Visitors no more adds
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Anonymous
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YES Dam Bombardment of advertising is ridiculous..
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Michael
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Stop auto play on video ads. Stop now or I will say goodbye to Yahoo.
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Anonymous
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Same here....annoying as all get out.....I also will open a news clip/video and a commercial will run at the same time that the news clip runs resulting in not being able to understand either one.
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Anonymous
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Menu icon no longer visible. Guess Yahoo just loves to make users angry. Oh, wait a minute there is a marketing idiot involved that was asleep during the "user experience" part of the lecture.
Autoplay can be turned off.
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Mouse over the control bar at the bottom of the video.
Click the Menu icon.
Click Preferences.
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Anonymous
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Getting tired of these auto play items. Getting really ready to say AMF to Yahoo.
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Anonymous
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Videos annoying just like pop up ads which everyone hates...go back to Classic PLEASE
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Byron P. Marsh
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I concur whole heartedly
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craig walker
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i make it a point not to buy what these ads sell..
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Donald LeBlanc
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I agree. Please!