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[–] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My friends were like, "have you seen the videos from bondi?" To which I said I haven't. One of the upsides of not being on normal social media is not coming across those sorts of videos and having them autoplay before you have a chance to respond, doing as much psychic damage to you as possible

[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Autoplay is evil. I’m having a hard time turning it off

[–] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Everything has it on by default and makes it so hard to turn off. There's like three places you need to turn it off on Youtube and they keep turning on the thumbnail autoplay on hover everywhere for me.

There has been reports of even employees at Facebook seeing themselves as the new tobacco companies. All we can hope is one day soon they're regulated in the same way or removed completely

[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Agreed. I hate that I can’t be as offline as I once was