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submitted 1 year ago by kratoz29@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I use Safari with Adguard and Chrome with Ublock on macOS and Chrome on Android with AdAway root version, and they work pretty fine for blocking ads, but these videos especially in news sites always autoplay and annoy me a bit, I think they have the same effect as the ads in annoyance level for me.

Do you know of some extensions or workarounds to get rid of them for good?

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[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Oh there’s a web usability standard for this.

Because science has demonstrated that autistic people are more highly distracted by motion, there is now a header you can send when requesting a site which basically says “no animation please” and you get a more static interface.

I’m just kidding. Can you imagine if that were the case? That would be incredible.

It’s true by the way: autistic people are more distracted by motion than non-autistics.

Interface elements that move in response to user interaction aren’t so bad. But things that just move for the hell of it make websites un-usable for me.

What I do in those cases where they don’t provide a pause button is I just delete the elements using dev tools in my browser. Any carousel you can’t pause. Any sparkly stars. Any animated backgrounds. Must be deleted before I can proceed.

this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023
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