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.