Auto-play (videos that begin playing as soon as they’re highlighted, moused-over, etc.) has been a ‘feature’ across multiple platforms and services for quite some time, and the typical response is usually not very positive. There are a number of reasons why you may not want videos to start playing without your direct input — a need to be quiet, potentially inappropriate content you don’t want to risk seeing, they’re just annoying, etc. — but even so, it remains. Even
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