The easiest way to disable (or enable) autoplay in the YouTube mobile and tablet app is to tap the toggle at the top of the ...

I first encountered autoplay as a teenager on Myspace, and I hated it. I’d visit someone’s page only to be immediately assaulted by whatever music they liked without warning. I figured we were past ...

Facebook introduced auto-playing videos and video ads back in December. The new format automatically plays silently on both desktop and mobile versions if you pause on them while browsing your News ...

If you hate autoplay videos, you are far, far from alone. Surveys over the years have discovered that as much as 90% of people find them to be annoying, particularly when they're ads. And why wouldn't ...

Every day, new videos beam onto your smartphone that you probably didn’t expect (or want) to watch. Certain services, like TikTok, Instagram, and X, are entirely based on autoplaying videos as soon as ...

Back in December, I was scrolling around on my computer, and I realized just how often there were auto-play video ads and content launched on the pages I was visiting. Auto-play video by itself is not ...

When Facebook first started rolling out auto-play videos on timelines, it mercifully muted the footage by default. That changes going forward, though, as videos will now automatically play with the ...