Facebook Is Testing Video With Autoplay Sound

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You know what would be really cool? Scrolling through Facebook and a video with autoplay sound starts blasting away so everyone knows I am looking at Facebook at work. Yay!

In one version of the test, sound plays immediately as the video begins, if you have sound enabled on your device. Another group is able to turn sound on during the test session using an icon that will sit to the bottom right of videos. Both groups see a pop-up message informing them about how to use the controls, and sound will only play if the smartphone's volume is up.
 
Oh boy, this could lead to some embarrassing situations! I always keep my speaker volume turned all the way down until I need to turn them up.
 
Yeah, tons of situations where this is simply a bad idea. I like to listen to music on my stereo (where my computer is the main source) while I browse the web or do other random tasks. I can't wait to have my music interrupted by some shit video which is probably part of a facebook ad.
 
Because video ads that autoplay with sound weren't obnoxious enough. Facebook genuinely is pretty awful for a lot of reasons. It's that everyone and their dog (and cat, and parakeet, etc.) use it and it makes it convenient as a hub. What competition is there? Google+? Myspace? Live Journal?
 
Ugh noooooo.

I'm never going to use Facebook again if they implement this crap.
 
Yay. Now I too can be annoyed by everyone else just looking through their facebook feeds. At least Azureth now has plausible deniability for his broney videos.
 
I don't want videos to start playing automatically at all, with or without sound, either in my browser or in my mobile app.

I also want all of this damned sponsored crap content to go away. it's so distracting to make Facebook practically unusable now.
 
Lifelite said:
Ugh noooooo.

I'm never going to use Facebook again if they implement this crap.
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They are used to people saying this, and people complain every time they make change, but then realize theya re so addicted to it that they keep using it anyway.

Facebook has realized this too, so they don't care about user preferences anymore, and haven't for a long time. They know their users are completely addicted to their service, so they know they can change it in any way they want to improve their ad revenue and people will still keep coming back.

If you really mean it, do it. That's the only way they'll learn.
 
Zarathustra[H] said:
I don't want videos to start playing automatically at all, with or without sound, either in my browser or in my mobile app.

I also want all of this damned sponsored crap content to go away. it's so distracting to make Facebook practically unusable now.
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You can turn off sponsored content.
 
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Zarathustra[H] said:
They are used to people saying this, and people complain every time they make change, but then realize theya re so addicted to it that they keep using it anyway.

Facebook has realized this too, so they don't care about user preferences anymore, and haven't for a long time. They know their users are completely addicted to their service, so they know they can change it in any way they want to improve their ad revenue and people will still keep coming back.

If you really mean it, do it. That's the only way they'll learn.
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I barely use facebook as it is. I check it for events and the such. I'm going to make my own Social network, with blackjack, and hookers.
 
GotNoRice said:
Yeah, tons of situations where this is simply a bad idea. I like to listen to music on my stereo (where my computer is the main source) while I browse the web or do other random tasks. I can't wait to have my music interrupted by some shit video which is probably part of a facebook ad.
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You can adjust sound volume for individual tabs in Firefox and its source ports. I don't think you can do it in Chrome? I believe Chrome shows a speaker icon for tabs playing sound, so you can mute volume in tabs that way. So just mute the volume for the tab you're browsing Facebook in.
 
Remember when having background music was a thing with some webpages and how much that sucked? Or changing your cursor?

Not having a FB account reaps more and more rewards; a gift that keeps on giving.
 
Prisoner849 said:
Remember when having background music was a thing with some webpages and how much that sucked? Or changing your cursor?

Not having a FB account reaps more and more rewards; a gift that keeps on giving.
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Lol. Midi music playing in the background. Background image wallpaper. Animated gifs everywhere, and an "under construction" logo.

Welcome to Geocities ca. 1996
 
Autoplay anything, especially with sound is one of the worst things on any web page. Like this century's gif filled pages of the 90s.
 
I'm sure I can figure out what URLs they're using to deliver the videos and block them. It's what I do with everything I don't want to see. You can block page elements you don't like, entire URL paths, domains, anything.
 
This is great! I have Meniere's Disease, and will listen to things with headphones at a soothing level.. I'll have to remember not to accidentally log on to Facebook for the ear rape, followed by several hours of vertigo and puking!

Why does it seem every major internet site is trying to completely ear fuck me now? Meniere's Disease is Hell to live with when you have random loud sounds. It's like somebody ramming a fucking spike through my forehead.
 
Guess it's time to break out blender and render some very annoying anti facebook videos to post on my feed so people can mindlessly walk off the curbs into traffic.

Really the only reason I have a face book account anymore is to create events for our youth survival group and keep tab's on it. The rest of it is crap.
 
In FFX just right click tab 'mute tab'. Good try, fuckerberg.

And the auto play videos are pretty much what keep me from using facebook on a crap connection. So I just use it for business messaging and posting stuff up.
 
Bigbacon said:
Autoplay anything, especially with sound is one of the worst things on any web page. Like this century's gif filled pages of the 90s.
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In a few years Facebook use will be frowned upon just like those gif pages of late.
 
Zarathustra[H] said:
They are used to people saying this, and people complain every time they make change, but then realize theya re so addicted to it that they keep using it anyway.

Facebook has realized this too, so they don't care about user preferences anymore, and haven't for a long time. They know their users are completely addicted to their service, so they know they can change it in any way they want to improve their ad revenue and people will still keep coming back.

If you really mean it, do it. That's the only way they'll learn.
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Hit the nail on the head brother. I have a facebook account. I'm definitely not addicted and use it only very occasionally (once a month) What I can't understand is how people got so addicted to it in the first place. Is it the games I don't play? Is it the need to post selfies and get affirmation that people "like" you? Clearly I'm not the target audience - but man, you're so right. In 1990 it was falling asleep to tetris blocks - in the present it's thinking about farmville and how many likes you got on that cute bewb shot you posted today ;)
 
... and they wonder why people block ads... Yeah there's and X button for them, but have fun hitting a 2 px by 2 px X button instead of "clicking" the ad.
 
Yahoo is all in for autoplay videos, and it's the worst thing ever. Even if you pause them, they randomly resume.
 
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