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I would have agreed with that until news sites started popping videos into view as soon as you start reading their news articles. Since that became a way too common thing, I don't care enough for the other valid uses cases anymore and right away disable any sort of autoplay. :(


Yeah this is why we can't have nice things.

And why I run two adblockers. If you give them a finger they'll take the hand


Yeah that is shit, but they could also pop blinking text in your face — should we now ban text for that reason?


The <blink> tag is now legacy for reasons.




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