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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Anonymous commented
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 commented
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 commented
stop the **** adds,it's very annoying.
It is not even possible to turn the sound of.
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Anonymous commented
Bring back classic , Please Yes the videos autoplaying is very annoying
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Anonymous commented
Do Like me don't use the site. No Visitors no more adds
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Anonymous commented
YES Dam Bombardment of advertising is ridiculous..
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Michael commented
Stop auto play on video ads. Stop now or I will say goodbye to Yahoo.
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Anonymous commented
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 commented
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.
Click Off. -
Anonymous commented
Getting tired of these auto play items. Getting really ready to say AMF to Yahoo.
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Anonymous commented
Videos annoying just like pop up ads which everyone hates...go back to Classic PLEASE
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Byron P. Marsh commented
I concur whole heartedly
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craig walker commented
i make it a point not to buy what these ads sell..
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Donald LeBlanc commented
I agree. Please!
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Elmer Dey commented
The advertisements on the right pop up while I'm trying to reply to an email message.
The ads totally interfere with my typing the message.
Is there a way to shut these off when I'm working with my outgoing email messages??? -
Anonymous commented
i can get news on tv i dont need it on my computer
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tguido commented
On the auto- video and the auto - advertisment's, I see yahoo is " gathering info ". What a freakn joke. Another stall tatic. Read what folks are saying, thats all that has to be done. Gathering info,, LMAO.
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tguido commented
folks , do y'all really think that yahoo cares about what you think??? Be honest, If they cared, they would stop with the auto video that so many don't want or like. But have they stopped ??? of course not. They ask for suggestions just so people can get things off their chest. 99.99.99% of complaintent's threathen to leave the website if nothing is done. 99.99.98% of the folk's DON'T LEAVE THE WEBSITE when NOTHING IS DONE. YAHOO CARES LESS ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK> Plain and simple.
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vvv commented
Stop autoplaying ALL videos
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Susan commented
I like the old homepage better than one you have now. News Page Please