I use a link aggregator to stay in the know on current events from multiple news sources. I go to Lemmy, click on articles that I want to know more about that may or may not affect me. Without fail I end up being interested in an article that centers around video footage of some event. Almost always, I click the link to the article, it takes me to their site and I’m met with an embedded video/clip from Twitter or Bluesky that DOES NOT FUCKING PLAY IN A MOBILE BROWSER. It drives me fucking nuts! It’s embedded in the article for a reason. It’s to quickly show me what was posted. I don’t need or want to download the fucking social media app that the clip was posted on. I don’t need to read the reaction comments. Stop redirecting me to another website when I click play on an embedded video. Just show me the goddamn video so I can move on. If these news organizations cannot fix that embedded video behavior, then just download the clip, credit the poster, and cite the link at the bottom of the page. It’s public domain when it’s posted, so I don’t understand why that’s not the standard. Am I taking crazy pills? God it makes me angry.
yeah, not just video, but embedding crap from social media is the best way to make your article irrelevant in a few years when that crap breaks or is put behind a login so they can stalk users.
There’s no reason to embed a tweet in your article. If that’s really relevant, just make a screenshot instead.
While “taking a picture” is a viable option for personal blogs and such, it does technically break the ToS for most social media sites and also might violate copyright, which is why reputable news sources are left with the, arguably shitty option, of using embedded posts.
If these news organizations cannot fix that embedded video behavior, then just download the clip, credit the poster, and cite the link at the bottom of the page. It’s public domain when it’s posted, so I don’t understand why that’s not the standard.
Posting something does not place it in the public domain.
Have you told that to companies that train A.I. or the Supreme Court?
I’m going to add to this in another direction:
Lazy website copies and pastes the article from the original source, including the line “as seen in the video below” but instead of embedding the “video below” there is a completely unrelated video (created and hosted by lazy website) that shares a few keywords with the original article.
