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why would any website owner think it’s ok to have self playing videos pop up on mobile in 2018?

The site was so abominably overrun with cruft and vicious pop-ups that I never even got to the auto-run video. Maybe after some ad-hunters go in and decimate the place, I might consider revisiting.

Try this instead then (originally published on SF Chronicle):

https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Mysterious-great-wh...

I went to the site with javascript turned off and had a good experience.

Sadly, the web has degraded to the point that I no longer think it a good idea to turn javascript on for any but the most trusted sites.

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