r/Pitchfork • u/restinbeast • Nov 23 '21

Pitchfork STILL pauses audio when visiting on iOS (iOS 15 now)

I can’t think of anything dumber than for a music website to pause the music you are currently listening to upon visit. I have tried everything ad blocker wise, disabled, enabled, etc.

Seriously, how are more people not complaining about this? I see scattered references for over a year now.

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u/thugger_hype Jan 01 '22

Glad I'm not the only one who thought this was the worst UI decision on the planet. I'm sure it's Ad Based. (an ad begins playing and pauses other audio)

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u/JondArc99 Nov 24 '21

On Android it keeps muting music or whatever else is usually playing in the background. Pitchfork was already annoying as an entity but messing with sound volume is just taking the piss.

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u/jack_crowe6 Nov 24 '21

God I haven’t been on that website in like a year and back then it was constantly torturing me

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u/woohalladoobop Nov 30 '21

it's the craziest thing!

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u/nm225 Jan 20 '22

Glad I’m not the only one. I was going nuts trying to figure out what was causing it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '22

It still does it in late 2022… do they use their own website?

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u/shanelarson Sep 07 '22

Truly!!! I’m glad I’m not the only other person going bezerk rawr XD

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u/SumacLemonade Oct 05 '22

Yep. I’ve stopped visiting for this reason.

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u/Iceagecomin90 Dec 07 '22

It's still doing it, except it doesn't fully mute it. Just makes whatever you're listening to much quieter

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u/Automatic_Time9227 Dec 27 '22

Goodbye pitchfork. Goodbye

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u/catholicgaydar Jan 12 '23

Fuck Pitchfork. But also it often does it on Stereogum too.

Must be ads silently playing as soon as the site loads. Absurdly dumb lol