so it seems that YouTube has one again forcefully enabled autoplay, and has also made it WAY more difficult (if not impossible) to turn off. why do you do this YouTube

@fluffy I *hate* that "feature". More like a bug to me. Nothing should play until I hit the play button on the UI. I want everything to load first, not miss the first 30 seconds of stuttery audio/video while their bloated page loads.

@wildcard9 by autoplay I mean automatically advancing to the next video on the recommendations, not automatically playing the video when you open the page (which I also hate, and which I disable at the browser level)

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