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by gear54rus 892 days ago
Also need an extension that would block the 'feature' of pausing the video when you scroll it out of view.

I swear these brain-dead social media websites get stupider every year. Worse yet, they pick up each other's bad habits (Tiktok -> Twitter -> Instagram in this case it went)

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They’re optimizing their apps for scrolling as many ads into the viewport as possible, hence pausing videos as they exit the viewport. Everything that is not an ad is a distraction from ads.