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
I just posted the same thing before I read yours, only I wasn't as nice.
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Jim commented
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 commented
In addition, the advertisements not only autoplay but now the sound also plays. How does one disable that "feature"!
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Michael commented
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 commented
It is using up my limited data can it not be cut off?
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STEVE commented
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 commented
stop auto playing, let us decide if we want to watch something.
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duncom commented
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 commented
Extremely annoying,even me am planning to left yahoo!!
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Anonymous commented
Extremely inconvenient. Shopping for a new News home page
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Anonymous commented
Get rid of auto-play, it's obnoxious.
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Anonymous commented
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 commented
stop auto play any videos.
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Herb Swain commented
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 commented
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 commented
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 commented
I agree
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Grey commented
Every time you autoplay a video, I close your webpage and go somewhere else for my news.
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Fritz Miller commented
Auto playing videos are NOT SAFE FOR WORK!
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I don't dare use Yahoo! at work now. Shhh! -
Anonymous commented
I totally agree, whether it's autoplay for an ad or the story I clicked on. I have yet to see any of Katie Couric's interviews because of the autoplay ads.
I have set up a different news reader page and find myself going to it more and more. Yahoo still has a lot of good writers but that can't overcome your taking over my computer with content I am not willing to sit through.