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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tguido
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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
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Stop autoplaying ALL videos
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Susan
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I like the old homepage better than one you have now. News Page Please
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Anonymous
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I just posted the same thing before I read yours, only I wasn't as nice.
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Jim
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I also find these autoplay videos **** annoying stop with this intrusion YAHOO. Some of us choose to read articles not have them spoken to us. I want to know how to disable the feature or I may have to, it just did it again in the middle of this sentence after I paused it on the home page, find some alternative to your website. STOP FORCING VIDEOS DOWN OUR THROATS WE DON'T WANT TO SEE.
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Dan
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In addition, the advertisements not only autoplay but now the sound also plays. How does one disable that "feature"!
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Michael
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I also don't like the fact that some of their articles are not listed as having video and yet I click on it and there's a video playing. What's the point of putting the indicator there in the first place if you're just going to put a video on everything anyway? I don't care for the fact that they frequently start playing themselves after I've told them to pause.
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Anonymous
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It is using up my limited data can it not be cut off?
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STEVE
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AGREE FULLY........TRYING TO SCROLL THRU THE CENTER PAGE NEWS ITEMS AND THAT **** SIDE BLOCK STARTS PLAYING SOUND AND SHOWING TOTALLY DIFFERENT NEWS THAN I'M LOOKING AT. CANNOT GET THE "X" ON VOL CONTROL TO STOP IT EITHER. MAYBE TIME TO FIND A NEW HOME PAGE ????
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Teresa
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stop auto playing, let us decide if we want to watch something.
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duncom
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Stop autoplaying ALL videos
I have missed a video feed I wanted to watch because I didn't watch it immediately after clicking on the link. When I do look, some other video is playing.
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Anonymous
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Extremely annoying,even me am planning to left yahoo!!
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Anonymous
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Extremely inconvenient. Shopping for a new News home page
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Anonymous
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Get rid of auto-play, it's obnoxious.
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Anonymous
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Auto play needs to go away. Get rid of the BS, its an invasion. Yahoo will be AOL in 3 years.
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hadi
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stop auto play any videos.
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Herb Swain
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I agree completely. These videos and a page that is almost infinite in length, full of ads and other material slows the page loading time to a dial up speed.
Of course these comments will not change anything because it all comes down to revenue! -
H Blankenship
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I find this very annoying and it is eating up my bandwidth. If I want to see the video running I will hit the 'run' button. Please stop this process or provide easily found information as how to disable the auto turn on when news.yahoo.com is accessed
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Ed
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I agree this is intrusive...as well as expensive. I guess I accidentally left a window open with a video auto playing (my sound is nearly always off because they are annoying anyway), but I got a notice from Verizon that I used nearly all my monthly Broadband capacity in a few hours one morning. I don't download movies or anything like that on that system. So when I called Verizon to straighten out my account over run, the tech said they are getting an incredible number of complaints for over-use by customers who have Yahoo News as their default desktop window. Grrrr.
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Rick Solberg
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I agree