Recently Youtube announced they are introducing a new feature. It is called Auto Play. This new feature consist on videos appearing on your Youtube home page and playing automatically. The video would not have any sound, it will have subtitles. The reason for this is because they want to give people the opportunity to watch videos even though they are on on public places like a bus stop, a train station etc.
This new feature consumes data, so in my opinion is a con for them. They would give the option to turn it off or only appear while using wifi. Still, there is many people like me that doesn’t manage well those things and always end using data. Also there is people who not even know that the option to turn it off exist.
I dont like the idea at all, I hate when things start playing by default. But it is an innovation since it is something new and something we haven’t seen before. I also, don’t see how are they gonna make that much money. If the videos will not include ads an there will be an option to turn it off (that i think most people will). It would be benefitial to the channel who gets the spot on the homepage. But besides that, I don’t see any other way of income. I would definitely turn it off.
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