As the year draws to a close, Dr Mumbo feels a warm feeling of satisfaction.
Fairfax Media has finally decided to let him switch off autoplay videos…
Dr Mumbo now knows how Nelson Mandela must have felt when he finally got out of prison.
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It’s a Christmas miracle.
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There is a God….
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I think it’s worth noting that it is available but at the expense of giving them your personal information.
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Is it still personal information if you give the name Donald Duck?
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Now I have to login and register to turn it off?
You’re kidding right??
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What price do I put on personal information like my gender, postcode and year of birth? Seriously if anyone offered me $1 I’d happily tell them.
For a site I spend so much time on, I’m happy to pay this small price to help them survive. After all, they’re not asking for my credit card.
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This is the biggest news for the year!
Shame that Fairfax’s new comment mechanism prevents people on iPads from logging into their accounts to comment – simply giving the message ‘you must turn cookies on’.
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“Well played Fairfax”, you don’t belong on this site!
How dare you not be whingeing!
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Auto-Play em’ off sam.
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Additionally, just to throw an additional two cents in – I don’t seriously believe that anyone is going to give two hoots about giving a potentially fake name, throw away email address, fake D.o.B and unconfirmed postcode to Fairfax – the Electoral Office and Australia Post knows more. Meh, it’s not so much a notion of privacy as it is generic worthless information – no doubt, this is just the start of ‘opt-in giving more information for more access to more content’ though.
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it’s a festivus miracle!
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Don’t celebrate yet. It appears it only works if you’re logged on… and it logs you off every day. So unless you obsessively click Logon the first time you visit (your preferred Fairfax site) every day, you’ll still see Auto Play kick in.
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Video’s autoplayed for me today. load of rubbish…
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I give up on Fairfax.
Punish your readers (autoplay) unless they log in (privacy issue) – It’s all backwards.
How about enticing me with a good service instead of creating a system that is specifically designed to piss me off?
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