# ESPN.com Auto-Play Problem

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/espn-com-auto-play-problem/561715
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [November 23, 2010, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/espn-com-auto-play-problem/561715 "2010-11-23T23:32:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2010, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/espn-com-auto-play-problem/561715/1 "2010-11-23T23:32:12Z")

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I’m guessing a lot of us spend a lot of time on [ESPN.com](http://ESPN.com) and a apparent bug has cropped up the last few days. I’m curious if it’s isolated to my system or if anyone else is seeing it. I have my account set up to never autoplay videos and I have the option selected in their embedded video component as well. It’s never been a problem, but the last few days every video on the site autoplays when I load the page. It’s especially troublesome on blogs because as I scroll down every single video on the page plays all at once.

Anyone else notice this issue?

What Browser/OS/Flash versions are you using?

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### Author: ![Stringer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Stringer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringer)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2010, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/espn-com-auto-play-problem/561715/2 "2010-11-23T23:59:05Z")

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Yeah this just started happening to me too. Firefox 3.6.12 and Flash 10.1.82.76.

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### Author: ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2010, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/espn-com-auto-play-problem/561715/3 "2010-11-24T01:07:20Z")

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I sent a bug report, but it’s good to know I’m not alone. Wonder if a recent Adobe broke something.
