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4 points by atularora on Dec 10, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Annoying auto-starting audio.

From the guidelines at http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

  > If you submit a link to a video or pdf, please
  > warn us by appending [video] or [pdf] to the title.
I would suggest that the same applies to audio. To try to explain why, here's something I wrote some time ago. You can find the original here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=459449 - but I'll quote the relevant bits:

  > When I browse I open up to 30 or 40 tabs at a time,
  > then go through them breadth first, opening more tabs,
  > continuing in this vein for a while. There have been
  > times when I've had 80 tabs open, moving through them
  > systematically, letting the browser load the next page
  > while I'm reading this one.
  >
  > Eventually the tree of pages/tabs closes down as links
  > I opened speculatively have nothing of interest, and so
  > I get my browsing donw efficiently and effectively.
  >
  > Until some video starts up.  Or worse, two.  Now I have
  > dozens of tabs to search through to find the one (or two)
  > that are playing something at me without being asked,
  > without giving me warning.  It's really annoying.
  >
  > I know I'm unusual in the way I browse, and maybe I just
  > need to get used to it.  But perhaps it would be useful
  > to others as well.
  >
  > Thanks for reading, sorry about the rant, I hope someone
  > sympathises with me.




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