stop the autoplaying video on the front page
Serious either disable or give me the option to disable autoplay on the front page and anywhere else you have autoplay.
Damon Jones
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taarkir
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I have never once watched a DJ stream, and yet every time I load twitch that's what's blasting garbage at me. I hate that kind of music with all my soul, so I spend the first half hour of whatever stream I wanted to watch annoyed at the 10 seconds of ****.
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oinerk
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I dont wan't to autoplay anything on the "home site", that i don't watch!!!!! several stream's are lodaded (even if i ever open a link of that game...) when i'm on the home page, i just want to watch, what i want to watch.. and yes! it's on purpose, u guys don't have a idea that this is a BUG!
ps. writhen on cellphone. -
Kepezz
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This. It's so annoying, especially as I've never seen anything interesting in the video that starts autoplaying.
I can't even block it properly with an ad blocker. An ad blocker just hides the autoplaying video but the sound still plays. This is one of the most frustrating features of Twitch.
Every time someone visits your site, you blast them with some random sucky stream with sounds on.
It's a bit like if you were going to a store to buy a specific thing, but the second you step through the front door a representative of some random product you have no interest in starts yelling at you through a megaphone. Would you keep visiting this store or buy your stuff from somewhere else? -
enpinion
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Please this.
Autoplay with sound is so annoying. -
ansider
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Just came back to Twitch after a while and saw that they'd done this. Used Adblock to disable the entire banner.
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Doug
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Done with twitch until this is changed.
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Douglas
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I always thought this site was horrible, but with this stupid option I realize that I was right ... It is ridiculous that we have to opt for a browser extension instead of you guys making this optional. FIX THIS, NOW.
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
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I just signed up to twitch, I didn't know about this awful feature. I probably won't use twitch much due to this.
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Jasper v.d. Meer
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I've installed this addon in my Firefox to get rid of it. It helps!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-autoplay/
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kcostell
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Even if you don't disable the autoplay video, please at least disable the autoplay sound.
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Anonymous
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Agreed. It's irritating for a page to blast audio and waste data by streaming anytime I haven't navigated to a page for that purpose.
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Anonymous
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I agree!
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Anonymous
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PLEASE make this true!! I hate having a random video playing when I open Twitch.
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Anonymous
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I have been places where I need my laptop sound (for various notifications) and misclick a bookmark and get blasted with wtv is on the front page. Has caused problems more than once.
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StrixFX
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Yes, please! I see no problem on Twitch promoting channels, but please don't automatically start the stream, let us choose. If it's of our interest, we'll definitely see it (it's huge) and click it.
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Oranen
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Didn't come to twitch to watch poker. Made a point and just bookmarked all the channels I'm subbed too. Hopefully never have to look at the twitch autoplay junk ever again.
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Anonymous
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Stopped coming to the site in part to this. Especially when half the time it isnt even a damn video game, its some woman doing some IRL trash that no one cares about.
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Rikard
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agreed, it's super annoying.
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zygf
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This so much, also applies to hosted streams. I just want to wait for my streamer to start in peace.