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Bloody auto play videos!

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Ginkythefangedhellpigofdoom · 06/01/2019 11:24

Mnhq, Please look into and fix the videos automatically playing on the site!

I think it's the videos on the side of the screen when you reading a thread.

I'm using puffin on an iPad.

Thankyou.

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Ginkythefangedhellpigofdoom · 11/01/2019 01:34

Videos absolutely eat data!

It more than just annoying

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HerBigChance · 10/01/2019 22:43

Firefox/Windows 10/laptop here

I don't like the fact that there are T&Cs listed before it autoplays and I can't stop it autoplaying. If there are T&Cs I don't agree with, I should have the option to stop the autoplay.

lovestea · 10/01/2019 22:39

Come on Mumsnet GCHQ, this happened once before and you stopped it, can you not do it again?
It's driving me scatty!

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Ginkythefangedhellpigofdoom · 10/01/2019 22:36

no point in reporting each one.

All the videos auto play all also have sound when I'm on chat.

Using desktop version on iPad using puffin.

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Ginkythefangedhellpigofdoom · 10/01/2019 20:42

The children and technology video this time with sound again.

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PattiStanger · 10/01/2019 20:42

It still hasn't stopped, i've just had the domestic violence one with the sound

DaysOfCurlySpencer · 10/01/2019 19:14

I have also just gone onto chat, still on laptop and that bloody microwave meals mac & cheese is still going on. I never have the volume on regardless but it is driving me demented.

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Ginkythefangedhellpigofdoom · 10/01/2019 19:12

So Iv just gone on to chat. Desktop version, using iPad.

The Mac and cheese video has just auto played with sound.

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Sadik · 10/01/2019 19:10

Still autoplaying here (Chrome on a laptop) though without sound. They're infuriating - basically to read a thread I have to wait so that I can close a video. Also a massive waste of bandwidth.

If you must have them, could you have the option to 'kill' the video before it starts, as on local news sites.

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Ginkythefangedhellpigofdoom · 10/01/2019 18:43

Just you know I am on iPad but I'm using the desktop version (hate the app)

When the videos played they all had sound. That's how I knew they had started.

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yawning801 · 10/01/2019 16:45

And Sian whateverhernamewas. It's been fine for the past half an hour and now it's started up again.

yawning801 · 10/01/2019 16:41

Claire Littler is still playing with sound!

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AnyaMumsnet · 10/01/2019 12:45

Hi again everyone,

Thanks for getting in touch about this.

We are testing a few things, so there will be videos autoplaying at the moment - but they should only be happening on the desktop site, and without sound.

If anyone is experiencing them on a phone or tablet, could you please check you aren't using the desktop version of the site on your phone?

We will take on your feedback regarding this.

fleshmarketclose · 10/01/2019 11:26

Yes for me too on laptop on Chrome, it's currently the kids and technology one but have had the others as well already mentioned.

Andro · 10/01/2019 11:23

Chrome on chromebook - the mac and cheese one with sound (I spend my life avoiding cheese in the RL, now I'm being haunted by in it cyberspace Angry )

mondaysaturday · 10/01/2019 11:14

Laptop on chrome, the all of the videos are autoplaying for me (seems to alternate between pregnancy is gross, the abuse one, mac and cheese and kids and technology).

SassitudeandSparkle · 10/01/2019 11:10

Still happening, I've had to go into my browser and stop all tracking cookies there because I think it put them on my laptop when the video plays. Really, really annoying and I don't know why you can't stop it.

IrenetheQuaint · 10/01/2019 08:38

Yes just happened to me, on Edge. Firstly one about microwave cooking then one starting "50% of Mumsnetters said". Both with sound. So annoying and disconcerting when you're trying to read a nice thread.

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Ginkythefangedhellpigofdoom · 10/01/2019 00:38

And again.

How much technology should children use]o2

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Ginkythefangedhellpigofdoom · 10/01/2019 00:36

And another! Walking on eggshells

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Ginkythefangedhellpigofdoom · 10/01/2019 00:35

Just gone back to chat and the Christmas makeup in 5 mins video started playing

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Ginkythefangedhellpigofdoom · 10/01/2019 00:33

Just had microwave Mac and cheese video auto play as I was scrolling through chat.

Puffin on iPad

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PattiStanger · 09/01/2019 21:12

I've just realised that normally I have the sound off on my laptop but had to turn it on today so this has probably been happening for a while and I didn't know.

I've just had the one about tech, and yes, why would you call in Mac and Cheese for a mainly UK audience

DaysOfCurlySpencer · 09/01/2019 19:49

Using a laptop and getting the same ones as mentioned above. Just now have one for Microwave Mac and Cheese in 5 minutes which for some reason hasn't started playing - yet but am not holding my breath.

Not only that, but it is actually Macaroni Cheese as I am in the UK so it looks very wrong indeed.

lovestea · 09/01/2019 19:16

Mine are on almost every topic! With sound. In fact this seems to be the only topic where they are not playing.