It seems that today&#x27;s Internet is full of major sites, news, tutorial, entertainment, and others, that all play videos automatically as soon as you hit the page. This has aggravated me for some time. It is an annoying game I must play with my computer&#x27;s mute button -- the only easy way I&#x27;ve found to stop the madness, rather than hunting for the Pause button.<p>Even when paused, the videos typically still buffer. If you are not interested in the video content, you must still waste the bandwidth to load it, despite having never told the page you wanted it (never pressed any Play buttons).<p>Is it me who stands alone with this grievance? Or are others bothered by this too? I feel like the net is becoming no better than basic network television.
Ask HN: How do you like the trend of auto-playing videos on mainstream sites?