I miss being able to open up a ton of videos in one session, and knocking them out one at a time. I'm just wondering what the general consensus was on this change.
Poll: Escapist video autoplay, love it or hate it?
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I liked it better when they did not auto play. It allowed me to open tabs in the background for each video and article I wanted to view at the beginning of my visit, and work my way through them after that.
I have currently reactivated FlashBlock on this site for that reason.
One reason I can guess for the change is the same reason youtube may also do this. Page hits are what they most likely use to calculate their traffic volume. It is important to them that they can see what stories, and videos, have the most traffic.
If people open 12 tabs and then read through them later, as I do, then there is a greater chance the person got distracted and ended up not finishing their reading/watching. So if they see 300,000 views of The Big Picture, it's possible that say 10,000 opened the tab and then forgot about it and didn't view it. Maybe it looked good at the time, but then the moment passed and the person then didn't care about it anymore.
That's all a guess though.
I have currently reactivated FlashBlock on this site for that reason.
One reason I can guess for the change is the same reason youtube may also do this. Page hits are what they most likely use to calculate their traffic volume. It is important to them that they can see what stories, and videos, have the most traffic.
If people open 12 tabs and then read through them later, as I do, then there is a greater chance the person got distracted and ended up not finishing their reading/watching. So if they see 300,000 views of The Big Picture, it's possible that say 10,000 opened the tab and then forgot about it and didn't view it. Maybe it looked good at the time, but then the moment passed and the person then didn't care about it anymore.
That's all a guess though.
I keep forgetting about the auto-play, and I end up either opening an ad of some kind or freezing the video when I automatically click on the screen after I select a video. Other than this minor, minor inconvenience, it's fine I suppose.
Gotta say that I am not a fan. I like being in control of my video playing, but I suppose it looks better to the advertisers if the escapist says look, we get X thousands of hits on this video and now they automatically play, so your ad WILL be played which means you're not throwing away your money.
I rarely have fewer than six tabs open on my browser at the same time, never fewer than three. I just open everything interesting to a new tab and go through them later. But with the autoplay I can't just open multiple different videos and then forget about them for a while. I'll have to open them one by one and pause them. It's annoying.
I'd like to know what the reason for adding the autoplay is. It just makes the site much less pleasant to use.
I'd like to know what the reason for adding the autoplay is. It just makes the site much less pleasant to use.
It's kinda annoying, but nothing I can't live with. I did prefer being in control of when the videos started though.
Not annoying as Youtube's autoplay and definitely not as annoying as Blip's (I press pause, damn it!!). I'd still prefer if it weren't there, though.