What’s So Bad About Autoplay
If you dig into the YouTube support pages (you can read it yourself here) you’ll find the following:
The Autoplay feature on YouTube makes it easier to decide what to watch next.
Well—it’s true. But wildly understated. Because if you’ve watched video content in the past five years, you almost certainly have watched a video on autoplay. It’s what happens when you finish one video and another one immediately queues up. It doesn’t just make it easier to decide what to watch next, it makes that decision for you.
