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The message is OK, but personally I have an issue with websites playing sound without my consent.

This is such a typical HN comment. The sound and automatic start of disk filling (before the mods changed the link) was intentional and meant to be surprising.

I don't like the tone of your response, especially as I don't spend that much time on HN. I explicitly tried to voice my opinion as my own without diminishing what you have accomplished.

OK, why does YouTube get a free pass on this? Nobody has ever given me a good reason.

By visiting a YouTube video, I am giving YouTube my consent to play me a video, including any sound it might contain. I completely expect YouTube videos to play sound and am prepared for it, unlike websites such as this.

All it takes is a redirect.

What's your point? That people can be annoying?

No, that this is a double standard people have. They gripe about any non-YouTube site playing audio, but say nothing when they click a bit.ly link that redirects to a YouTube video page.

People absolutely do complain when they click a bit.ly link that redirects to a YouTube video page.

Not ok either but you can at least mute the sound there.

Yes, and it takes one click. Same number of clicks it takes to close the tab.

FWIW I wish youtube didn't autoplay.

Not that I care about unexpected noises in a situation like this, but I hope we all agree that unexpected and unwanted noises are genuinely annoying to many people.

It doesn't. Flashblock is one of the most popular Firefox extensions[1], and variants are available in other browsers. Even though it offers some protection against hidden Flash elements and supercookies, it would still be popular just to prevent autoplaying flash presentations.

The author of Flashblock even specifically mentions YouTube on the extension page[2]:

Youtube videos not blocked: This is because they are now increasingly HTML5 Videos. I plan to add HTML5 blocking in the next version. Meanwhile you can try out a experimental version at: http://flashblock.mozdev.org/installation1.html#unstable

This indicates there is a demand for the autoplay blocking feature alone, regardless of the medium.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/?sort=us...

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashblock/

Agreed. But while we're on the topic- what is that song?

It's known as the "troll" or "trololo" song. Can't be bothered to remember it's real name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTSA_sWGM44

10 internets to you, good sir. I just saw the name in the source code on GitHub (facepalm). Thanks for the link to the video; highly entertaining!

Mr. Trololo himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oavMtUWDBTM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Khil

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