‘Your Frustration Is the Product’ The people making these decisions for these websites are like ocean liner captains who are *trying* to hit icebergs.

I haven't read @gruber.foo in awhile but Google News surfaced this piece, and it's spot on

«𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦𝘣𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘣 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴»

#enshittification
#hostileUX #cpm #ads #modals #autoplay #networkrequests

Stört nur mich, dass sich bei @bsky.app seit fünf Jahren trotz Haken das Autoplay von Videos nicht dauerhaft abschalten lässt? #Autoplay #Bluesky

‘I won’: 96-year-old Holocaust survivor makes aliyah, joins 5 generations in Israel Decades after surviving Auschwitz and building a life in America, Charlotte makes aliyah with Nefesh B’Nefesh, receives Israeli citizenship in Tel Aviv and reunites with five generations of descendants now living in Israel

What a woman❣️
96-årige Charlotte overlevede #Holocaust og starter sit nye liv i #Israel 

Dr. Anna Lembke, an #addictionmedicine expert, testified in a #landmarktrial against #Meta and #YouTube: She argued that #socialmedia platforms are #inherentlyaddictive for #teenagers due to design features like #autoplay and #endlessscrolling, which exploit their developing brains.…

From 3,100 missing to final closure: IDF Hostage Command winds down after historic mission Born in the chaos of Oct. 7 amid shock and thousands missing, Hostage Command ends two years of intense, emotional operations with the burial of Ran Gvili, marking quiet missions, deep intel ties and the looming question: what happens next?

#Israel har identificeret alle ofre af 7. oktober-massakren 🎗️

How to turn off #Autoplay

Die Tricks von #BigTech, um Menschen an der Stange zu halten:
3 blinkende Punkte, wenn jemand tippt,
#Autoplay -Videos,
Push-Erinnerungen,
rote Kreise mit weißen Zahlen, die Reaktionen anzeigen.
Alles kleine psychologische Hebel, mit großer Wirkung.

Picture of the settings menu in HBO/Max, showing the Autoplay recommended Movies & Series button slid to the off position.

You can turn off HBOMAX autoplay. In the HBOMAX app >Settings>Playback
Slide "Autoplay Recommended Movies and Seties to off, then it will stop automatically playing movies and shows its arbitrarily decided you want to watch next. #tvsky #filmsky 📽🎞🎬🎥 📺 #HBO #hbomax #autoplay

#NewYorkState will require #socialmedia platforms to display #warninglabels about potential harm to young users’ #mentalhealth when users interact with features deemed addictive. The law, signed by Governor Hochul, applies to platforms with #infinitescrolling, #autoplay, #likecounts, or…

Libérez notre cerveau : arrêtez l'autoplay et le défilement infini sur les reseaux sociaux - [mcInform@ctions]

Pétitions➡️Assemblée Nationale
Libérez notre cerveau : arrêtez l’autoplay et le défilement infini sur les reseaux sociaux
mcinformactions.net/liberez-notre-cerveau-ar...
#reseauxSociaux #autoplay #algorithmes

I recommend stopping (disturbing) videos/ GIFs from starting as you scroll.
Choose >Settings, >Content and Media, then de-select >Autoplay. If I want it to play I just have to tap it. Too many 30sec snuff films out there.
#pause #doomscrolling #stop #autoplay

Julia and Abed: A love story cut short by Hamas terrorists at Zikim Beach on Oct. 7 Julia Cheban, 24, and Abed al-Rahman al-Ziadna, 26, spent their final moments together at Zikim Beach, where Hamas terrorists struck on Oct. 7; couple’s bond — between a Jewish woman and a Bedouin man — became a symbol of love cut short by tragedy

Jødiske Julia og beduinske Abed var sammen til det sidste. I morgen er det to år siden de betalte med livet for Israel-had 💔

AutoPlay Enables Scalable Synthetic Task Generation for AI Agents

AutoPlay generated 20 000 tasks for 20 Android apps and 10 000 tasks for 13 Ubuntu apps, boosting agent success rates up to 20.0 % on mobile and 10.9 % on desktop. getnews.me/autoplay-enables-scalabl... #autoplay #synthetictasks #mlagents

How to Disable Autoplay Videos on X (Formerly Twitter)

You can stop videos auto‑playing on X by going to Settings > Accessibility, display and languages > Data usage and setting Autoplay to “Never” on both desktop and mobile. Read more: getnews.me/how-to-disable-autoplay-... #x #autoplay

How to Disable Autoplay on Major Social Media Platforms

As of September 10 2025, Bluesky lets you disable video and GIF autoplay in Settings → Content and media; similar toggles exist on Facebook, Instagram, X and Threads. Read more: getnews.me/how-to-disable-autoplay-... #bluesky #autoplay #socialmedia

Spotify is reportedly down for some listeners at the moment. Are you one of them? #Spotify #SpotifyDown #Autoplay community.designtaxi.com/topic/14746-is-spotify-d...

why do I have to every now then, on Facebook, but also here - go to settings and disable video autoplay? If I set it once, it needs to stay like that until the heat death of the universe or until the platform dies, whatever happens first.
#bsky #video #bluesky #autoplay #tech #facebook

The Hidden Harm of Auto-Play for Young Children – Why It’s Time to Press Pause | Sue Atkins The Hidden Harm of Auto-Play for Young Children – Why It’s Time to Press Pause Have you ever noticed how quickly one video rolls into the next when your little one is watching something on #YouTube o...

Ever thought about #autoplay & #kids ? www.linkedin.com/posts/sueatk...

Watching a tv series, auto play is perfect, watching a movie, auto play is awfully presumptuous, algorithm, you do not know me as well as you think you do. #autoplay #streaming

4/20 "You can't hover your mouse in the gaps...to prevent videos autoplaying...it hides the thumbnail." - rozab #YouTube #UXFail #AutoPlay

3/20 Misalignment & Autoplay: Users hate the misaligned video grid triggering autoplay! It adds unwanted vids to watch history & hides thumbnails. 😡 #YouTube #Autoplay #UI

Hi gang! Does anybody know offhand how to get #Bluesky to stop turning #autoplay back on?