Twitch clips are autoplaying on GB

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This is probably not a bug and I'm also not entirely sure how much Giant Bomb can do about this but I've noticed that Twitch clips autoplay on Giant Bomb. I think we can all agree that videos which start playing as soon as a page loads are awful and should be stopped whenever possible so I'm wondering if there is anything we can do to stop that on our end.

Test:

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#2 frobie  Staff

When you're embedding the twitch video, are you able to append the parameter autoplay=false at the end of the url? Unfortunately, Twitch has autoplay set to true by default.

We'll have to look into auto-appending the param in the future. I'll open a ticket for it.

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I was searching for another topic, and this video autoplayed and confused the heck out of me. So yeah, it'd be nice if that was disabled by default. :p

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#4 frobie  Staff

Better late than never. User embedded twitch streams will never autoplay in the forums.