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Dear Tech Crunch staff. Please stop making your videos auto-play in IE and Chrome. Seriously ... 10 videos on one page and they ALL started up, playing. Conform

Dear Tech Crunch staff. Please stop making your videos auto-play in IE and Chrome. Seriously ... 10 videos on one page and they ALL started up, playing. Conform to freegen standards from the W3C. I would have been ok with my IE browser, but it had the same bizzaro world experience in Chrome.

deadfall 13y ago
I've tweeted at them telling them that their home page had autoplaying videos with all sound on. What a nightmare. I stopped going to TC so much after that.
vezycash 13y ago
You're complaining to the wrong company. Chrome has 'click to play' option for flash. Why can't we control video? Youtube conflict of interest maybe. We can disable javascript, images, even audio. Why not Videos? Screaming at webmasters to behave ethically, or app developer to not steal data is naive and idealistic. Scream at google, mozilla, microsoft and the rest to give US control over our browser is that too much to ask in this day and age? Or has following apple's "we know what's best for you" philosophy clouded their common sense? The browser is to blame!
- streetnigga 13y ago
  "You're complaining to the wrong company." The company that embeds the videos should consider how said media is presented to it's users. It is a weird concept yes I know. Just try to contemplate it.
  - drdaeman 13y ago
    It depends on how you view a website-browser relationship. If you believe your browser displaying a site is under third-party control, then yes, it's third party that's responsible for presentation issues. If you believe since something running in your browser then you and browser vendor are responsible for presenting the contents in a manner you want it, then, well, it's another way. Actually, I think one should complain to both companies.
    - streetnigga 13y ago
      Outside frames are called parent for a reason. I'm pretty closed book on how I feel about the issue. Though I agree both should be complained to, just that responsibility falls on those who embed. I really thought we made it past the auto-play era of the 90s.
dangrossman 13y ago
Nothing auto-plays on TechCrunch here. I tried both Chrome 32 and IE 11.

deadfall 13y ago

I've tweeted at them telling them that their home page had autoplaying videos with all sound on. What a nightmare. I stopped going to TC so much after that.

vezycash 13y ago

You're complaining to the wrong company. Chrome has 'click to play' option for flash. Why can't we control video? Youtube conflict of interest maybe. We can disable javascript, images, even audio. Why not Videos? Screaming at webmasters to behave ethically, or app developer to not steal data is naive and idealistic. Scream at google, mozilla, microsoft and the rest to give US control over our browser is that too much to ask in this day and age? Or has following apple's "we know what's best for you" philosophy clouded their common sense? The browser is to blame!

streetnigga 13y ago
"You're complaining to the wrong company." The company that embeds the videos should consider how said media is presented to it's users. It is a weird concept yes I know. Just try to contemplate it.
- drdaeman 13y ago
  It depends on how you view a website-browser relationship. If you believe your browser displaying a site is under third-party control, then yes, it's third party that's responsible for presentation issues. If you believe since something running in your browser then you and browser vendor are responsible for presenting the contents in a manner you want it, then, well, it's another way. Actually, I think one should complain to both companies.
  - streetnigga 13y ago
    Outside frames are called parent for a reason. I'm pretty closed book on how I feel about the issue. Though I agree both should be complained to, just that responsibility falls on those who embed. I really thought we made it past the auto-play era of the 90s.

dangrossman 13y ago

Nothing auto-plays on TechCrunch here. I tried both Chrome 32 and IE 11.