the video autoplay curse has spread to Google results and I’m glad they’re not my usual search engine or I’d never fucking accomplish anything now
but just, please, if you’re going to even consider implementing auto play, maybe make it opt-in? prompt the first time you want to start playing a video? consider letting the user actually get to consent to being inundated in this way?
(honestly, now that there’s an auto-play video setting in the App Store of all things, I sort of wish Apple would make it a system-wide setting that apps were required to obey)
@cat does the reduce motion accessibility option disable it?
(it should definitely be a separate option but I'm wondering if they at least did *that*)
@iliana I’ve not tried that! I generally like the other UI animations, though
like I don’t get it, how can anyone deploy auto playing video and not consider it an interruption, a distraction, an imposition upon any viewer’s workflow
I get why Google are doing it, because if they get someone to click that it goes to YouTube where they then show an ad for $