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by superbeefy 4602 days ago
I'm running chrome. Scrolling speed isn't the issue. When you have the mouse cursor on the page and you start scrolling down, if your cursor crosses through a video it will start playing. As you keep scrolling down you'll be moving in and out of videos causing less the a second of playback to occur.

Now since these videos are user generated they are all recorded with various levels of quality. If your mouse moving through ones that are poorly recorded that split second of playback sounds horrible.

You can simulate the effect if you visit https://giveit100.com/@Benjamin and goto the day 18. If your move your mouse past it you'll hear some really bad static for a split second. Now imagine if all the videos are like that while scrolling down the page, it's a pretty horrible experience.

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Ok got it. Thanks for the feedback. I think I can probably do something to prevent playback triggered by scroll events.