Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-88.149.93.22-20171005224623/@comment-4053809-20171009180438

Fan26 wrote: Jenburton wrote: Andrewds1021 wrote:

Jenburton wrote: Featured videos include a preference to disable autoplay for two weeks at a time. There's a gear icon on the lower right of the player; clicking on that gives you the option to turn autoplay off. It's a global setting so will work on any article or wiki you visit. I thought that was only possible for non-US viewers. Nope, the preference setting is global. Forgive my asking soemthing as obviovus as this...but why even have autoplay in the first place?

Yo.-User:Fan26 (Talk) 16:33, October 9, 2017 (UTC) We use autoplay in order to be able to reduce the number of ads on each page. We're using high value preroll ads in front of great video content; in order to make those ads of high value, the videos need to autoplay.