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I've looked into it before, but it's not something that we can fix. It would need reddit to make a change, but they have not yet done so.

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Today I was browsing through the status updates feed (https://linustechtips.com/discover/58/) and suddenly some really loud video starts to play, causing me to take off my headset and look for the source.

It was an autoplaying video from a Reddit embed in this status update: https://linustechtips.com/status/290048/ (warning, might be very loud for you too).

 

This doesn't always autoplay, but from what I gathered:

Chrome: often autoplays

FireFox: doesn't autoplay (might be because of a setting to force disable auto-plays)

Chromium Edge: (often) autoplays

 

If it's possible to disable, it would be great if that can be done. Or if it's possible, drastically lowering the volume would be great too.

I am not exaggerating when I say for me this video was about two times louder than the YouTube video I was currently listening to.

 

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Holy... I didn't read the testing part so I was wondering if there was edit made to fix it. How wrong was I to open edit history for that SU. (Hard echo warning to fellow mods)

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I've looked into it before, but it's not something that we can fix. It would need reddit to make a change, but they have not yet done so.

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11 hours ago, colonel_mortis said:

I've looked into it before, but it's not something that we can fix. It would need reddit to make a change, but they have not yet done so.

Disable the embed in mean time? Before some troll uses it for bad things.

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11 hours ago, colonel_mortis said:

I've looked into it before, but it's not something that we can fix. It would need reddit to make a change, but they have not yet done so.

21 minutes ago, LogicalDrm said:

Disable the embed in mean time? Before some troll uses it for bad things.

Or as a compromise, a button which only loads the embed when requested by the user (allows the user to get a preview of the post without leaving the site, but essentially removes the issue OP describes where autoplaying videos start in the background)

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21 hours ago, colonel_mortis said:

I've looked into it before, but it's not something that we can fix. It would need reddit to make a change, but they have not yet done so.

ah, bummer. I would expect Reddit to at least sort of understand the internet and its desire to not have auto-playing stuff (especially when it's as loud as it is).

I'll just hope the next time it is a bit less loud, lol.

"We're all in this together, might as well be friends" Tom, Toonami.

 

mini eLiXiVy: my open source 65% mechanical PCB, a build log, PCB anatomy and discussing open source licenses: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1366493-elixivy-a-65-mechanical-keyboard-build-log-pcb-anatomy-and-how-i-open-sourced-this-project/

 

mini_cardboard: a 4% keyboard build log and how keyboards work: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1328547-mini_cardboard-a-4-keyboard-build-log-and-how-keyboards-work/

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It doesn't seem to autoplay if 'tracking content' is blocked. At least on Firefox.

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11 hours ago, minibois said:

ah, bummer. I would expect Reddit to at least sort of understand the internet and its desire to not have auto-playing stuff (especially when it's as loud as it is).

I'll just hope the next time it is a bit less loud, lol.

Then there's people like Instagram that completely reversed things and made all videos autoplay by default. Honestly not only is autoplaying videos annoying and at times startling, but if you're on mobile... oh boy... there goes a ton of your data every time. 

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