I wish it would all be disabled. On iOS it is absolute hell to load any page due to it jumping around, and then you scroll and some video starts playing. Do you want me to read the page? Or get distracted? Either PIP with a too small x, or inline, making me think it's part of the story, but it's just another story about Mary eating 36 pastries and winning the eating contest.

For the longest time Ars Technica did this too, with the same video over and over. I can't imagine the bandwidth wasted there.