autoplaying videos

[Doc8404]

That’s new.
I start scrolling and the embedded YouTube vids start playing.

how do I turn that off??

You’re going to get me killed when I am scrolling at night.

iPhone 8+
Latest iOS

 

[HEX]

Hmm. I can't get it to happen on desktop or mobile, but I have only android to test on, no iPhone.

Is there a specific thread/page you encountered it on ? If you can point me to a page it happens to you on, I could look at the embed code and see if the autoplay flag is in there.

Shouldn't be possible by the way our software translates links to embedding code. Could be an iphone browser thing or browser cookie malfunction on your end.

 

[Doc8404]

Just started recently but can’t correlate to IOS update or anything.
Will find a thread or two

 

[Doc8404]

You’re right. It isn’t all the threads.
this post 1

https://nygunforum.com/threads/life-jackets-should-be-mandatory-for-everyone.47434/

 

[GTN]

These videos auto play on my iPhone.
lifevest
Railgun
psaki firing people

 

[Doc8404]

Was almost a domestic here last night @HEX

LOL

 

[HEX]

You’re right. It isn’t all the threads.

That it is specific videos makes it far more confusing.

When asking for a specific example, I thought of two (highly unlikely) possibilities. Perhaps there was some slight chance a specific user might be able to link a youtube vid in such a way as it didn't get parsed into by our system to proper embed code and still somehow be viewable (Possibility #1). That's.. kind of both super far fetched and not, because it is possible for such a thing to happen with sites we don't have specific code to address. So, as youtube code stands, impossible, but if they were to change something on their end (that being possibility #2), it might be made to happen.

That said, on all examples given by both of you, the posts BB code looks like this

[MEDIA=youtube]GukIoZ8d3Ew[/MEDIA]

Which means that we are parsing it normally, and there's only one possible way that can can happen; which does not include the "&autoplay=1" variable at all that would be required to embed with autoplay.

It might be an interesting experiment to add that variable into our system (with a value of 0) and see how that might effect users experiencing this . The thing is though, as it stands, I'm pretty much 99.9999999% certain this isn't anything on our end, and is likely to be an iOS/Safari thing. I can't replicate it on any of a number of browsers on Windows desktop (Firefox, Chrome) or Android (Chrome and Opera Mini)
I'd definitely suggest clearing cache/cookies to see if you have a bad cookie from youtube.

It's weird if it's just certain videos, but for the sake of being thorough I pulled this up from google on turning off autoplay in Safari (It is Safari that iOS uses by default, right ?. I'm not at all certain about anything apple related. Never used an apple product by choice, never will..heh)

Safari makes it simple to disable autoplay. In fact, it assumes that you want the feature disabled to begin with. However, if it hasn’t been disabled — or if you want to make some exceptions to the rule — here’s what you do:

• While in the app, go to Safari > Preferences in the top menu.
• Click on “Websites” in the top menu.
• Look for and select “Auto-Play” in the side menu.
• Look for the drop-down menu at the bottom right of the window and select “Never Auto-Play.”

 

[technicalgadget]

If you have the youtube app for ios, check the upper right hand corner of the app. If you are logged into the youtube app with your email address, then its easy. Click on the icon for your account, then scroll down to Settings, scroll to the section AUTOPLAY, then slide the icon to the left for Autoplay next video to disable it.

 

[Doc8404]

I will have to look into this more closely. I am not logged into the YouTube application or the YouTube website. Also, those safari instructions must be for a computer and not the iPhone. The iPhone does not have those options. I will dig in and let you know what I find out.

 

[Doc8404]

Found it.

YouTube app I am signed in but not in safari browser.

 

[spat]

I always turn my media volume to 0 when I'm using my phone in bed at night.

No problems on this site, but I do look at other parts of the internet sometimes...