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Here’s why NewsOK.com auto-plays their videos…

9:00 AM EDT on June 20, 2011


NewsOK.com really isn't that bad of a website.  But...if you took a poll to determine the most annoying thing about the site, I would bet good money that the top complaint would be the stupid auto-play videos that accompany most of their news stories.

I say that because it's an issue that I'm sure has gotten quite a few college students, office workers and people at the Gazette in trouble over the past 3 - 5 years.  You know what I'm talking about.

It probably happened to you one morning while you're at work or class. You're a little bored and decide to check out Royce's Daily Bolts.  You then see a link to some Darnell Mayberry column.  You click on the link and a few seconds later you're greeted to the loud audio of some guy telling you "I sell Edmond."  Of course, that dude is then followed by Jenni Carlson and Mike Baldwin — two people who have the sports IQs of drunk llamas— discussing Serge Ibaka nicknames and Eric Maynor tattoos.